Among the most popular of the current crop of horror/slasher films is Wes Craven's “A Nightmare on Elm Street” series, featuring the unctuous and disturbing Freddy Krueger, a homicidal maniac with fingers so sharp that he always makes his point–usually to the bloody and painful dismay of his adversaries.

Perhaps the most terrifying thing about Freddy, though, is that he makes his entrance into this world via our dreams.

While we lie peacefully slumbering, the slavering Freddy can do his worst to us and anyone around us, thus making staying awake literally a matter of life and death. Red Bull, anyone?

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