Tombstone pizza

Tombstone pizza

Screenshot from Tombstone Pizza’s Facebook page

In 1984, director Wes Craven made an ordinary and very common street name extremely famous.

And now the popular Tombstone frozen pizza franchise will allow anyone living on the eerily named Elm Street to chance to win free pizza for a whole yearmultiple news outlets have confirmed, including Penn Live.

The contest, which opens on October 3rd and runs through Halloween, features the famous Craven “Nightmare on Elm Street” which introduced the world to Freddy Krueger, the ghost of a serial killer who returned to terrorize the dreams of a group of teenagers. The film launched the career of Johnny Depp, who played Glenn Lantz in the horror film.

According to Tombstone, there is more than 5000 streets of Elms scattered across the country, KIRO 7 reports.

You can participate in the contest through Tombstone site.

TJ MacĂ­as is a real-time national sports reporter for McClatchy based in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. TJ previously covered the Dallas Mavericks and Texas Rangers for numerous media outlets, including 24/7 Sports and Mavs Maven (Sports Illustrated). Twitter: @TayloredSiren