(CNN) -- Springwood teenagers Dean, Kris, Jesse, Nancy and Quentin are having trouble not sleeping: They're knocking back coffee, popping pills, anything to delay another date with their dream stalker (which may explain why these high school students look like college grads). When one of them does drop off, the bedsheets turn red. 

Wes Craven's 1984 slumber party massacre started from scratch -- it was a low-budget item from what was then a genuine independent studio, New Line -- and became the iconic horror franchise of the decade. 

With his battered fedora, a striped sweater, a razor-glove and a face like Sal's Famous, Freddy Krueger was the most personable boogie man Hollywood had come up with in a long time, so what if he was also a child abuser? A recurring nightmare who stalked teenagers as they slept, Freddy preyed on the defenseless and played fast and loose with physics: If Salvador Dali had created a slasher movie villain, he might have come up with someone like Freddy. 

After eight movies, a TV series and a comic book, you might think Mr. Krueger had been done to death. It's been seven years since Freddy put Jason Vorhees in his place (in "Freddy vs Jason"). But you can't keep a good bad guy down, and at the rate Hollywood is cannibalizing its horror back catalogue, we'll be seeing remakes of the remakes any day now. 

Directed by pop video director Samuel Bayer and written by Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer, the new "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is actually a lot like the old one. So much so, for a while you wonder why they didn't just re-release it. (You'll wish they had.) 

Answer this series of questions:

1. What are the teenager's names?
2. Are they trying to stay awake?
3. What are they doing to stay awake?
4. When was the slumber party massacre?
5. What studio was it?
6. Who is the villain?
7. How many movies have there been?
8. What type of book is Krueger in?
9. Has he been in anything on television?
10. what was it?
11. What is the name of one of his movies?
12. What movie has been redone?
13. Where do the teenagers live?
14. Who wrote the new Nightmare on Elm Street?
15. Who is the director?
16. What  is Jason's last name?

Numbered answers:
1. Dean, Kris, Jesse, Nancy and Quentin
2. Yes
3. They're knocking back coffee and popping pills.
4. 1984
5. New Line
6. Freddy Krueger
7. eight
8. a comic book
9. Yes
10. a TV series
11. Freddy vs Jason
12. A Nightmare on Elm Street
13. Springwood
14. Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer
15. Samuel Bayer
16. Vorhees