Wes Craven once heard a story about people who avoided sleep for fear of dying in their nightmares; along with a childhood bully and a step-father, it inspired him to create an iconic character who's haunted us all for 40 years.

Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), child murderer, comes to thin lipped Tina (Amanda Wyss) with his wet face and knife glove in her nightmares, scaring her so badly she warns best friend, Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) who's had the same dream. Not wanting to be alone, Tina has a spend-over with Nancy, her boyfriend Glen (Johnny Depp), Tina's rough boyfriend, Rod (Jsu Garcia) shows up uninvited and she ends up slashed to death after a night of a pretty okay weinering. Rod is arrested by Nancy's father, Lt. Thompson (John Saxon). Nancy's drunken orange mother, Marge (Roni Blakley) must now come to terms with her part in the vigilante justice that resulted in the death of Freddy, causing him to come back for his children in A Nightmare on Elm Street. A 40 year celebration, dedicated to the memory of Kathleen Garcia, the gal that started it all

The ultimate nightmare, this week on Doom Generation.