Why remake A Nightmare on Elm Street when I can just watch the original?

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First though, Solovev had to deal with a young bear, about 2m tall with handsome claws, that the rangers had started calling "Freddy Krueger" in homage to the razor-clawed slasher from the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street.

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The clawed hand of Freddie Krueger reaching over the sleeping face of a young girl in the poster for Nightmare on Elm Street?

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With so many horror remakes of late--Halloween in 2007, Friday the 13th in 2009, Nightmare on Elm Street in 2010--there's been a reverting to type.

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