Tag: Wes Craven

• Growing Up is a Nightmare – Adolescence and Parental Control in A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984)

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  by Emma Arneil Being a teenager is hellish. Your body is changing at a terrifying rate. Your friendships, once solid, can now feel fraught with tension, and your parents seem to clamp down harder on you just as you’re trying to pull away.  The desire for freedom, while still being stuck under someone else’s roof and rules.…