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Right while we were shooting the fist <em>Nightmare<\/em>, there was a huge scandal based around an area of single parent yuppies in California known as South Bay. Child molesters had descended on this unsupervised flotsam of seventies leftover Me-generation American children. On the spot we changed the script from child molester to child murderer, mainly so Wes wouldn&#8217;t be accused of exploiting the South Bay case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Child molestation is a driving plot point in Platinum Dunes&#8217; remake of the original <em>A Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em>. Their version of Freddy Krueger is different than the one presented in the original series and his motivations mirror what Wes Craven initially conceived for the character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from Screams &#038; Nightmares: The Films of Wes Craven. 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