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Originally posted by MidgardDragon
Okay, so obviously NOES isn't a true story, but I got you interested, and the title is somewhat related to the topic, so here goes.
While listening to the Commentary on the NOES DVD, Wes Craven mentioned a series of articles that gave him the inspiration for this movie. The general gist of the articles, according to Wes, was that foreign exchange students had come to the U.S. and soon after started having really bad Nightmares, after which they would call their parents, and their parents would tell them that they would fell better after they got some rest. The kids went back to sleep, and then suddenly died in their sleep. My question is this, does anybody have a link showing the authenticity of those articles, with scans of them or something of the sort? The whole idea that NOES has an element of truth in it is scary as f*ck for one, but more importantly I'm wanting to know if Wes bought into some Urban Legend here, or if these articles were actually in respectable news sources and weren't just Halloween spoofs or anything.
Any info would be much appreciated.
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I have the box set and I've seen all the commentarys, but I don't recall hearing that. I recall him saying he got if from the newspaper. A child had nightmares every night and it got to a point that he would do just about anything not to go asleep because he felt that the nightmares were feeling just too real. So he stayed up for nights then he went down stairs and sat on the cough to watch television but he feel asleep and his father carried him up to his room. Latter on in the night the parents wake up to the sound of his screams, they rush to his room and he was dead. No blood, no poision, no one knew why he died. Later on after his death the parents learned he had a coffee maker under his bed. And the figure of Freddy, his mean look and all, was token from a memory Craven had as a child. He and his family were in a hotel and he looked out the window and saw this ugly, wrikkled, old man starring up dirrectly at him. The man went inside and Craven go scared when he herd someone walking down his floor and screamed, and the old man was no where to be found. The old, mean and wrikley look was the first concept for Freddy's looks, but he mad eit even better; he made him look like a burnt demon from the pits of Hell.