The True Story Behind the Bizarre Syndrome That Inspired 'A Nightmare on Elm Street'

Here’s how a wave of mysterious deaths in the late 1970s and early 1980s among Southeast Asian refugees living in America inspired Wes Craven to pen his 1984 horror classic, “A Nightmare on Elm Street.”

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