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@10 Maybe the marketers for one of the "Elm Street" sequels appropriated the phrase, but its origin in pop culture--with the distinctive two-syllable pronunciation of "baa-aack"--is the movie "Poltergeist".
The blonde little girl in the film said specifically "They're baa-aack," but the pronoun is much less important than the spookiness of the drawn-out second word. The phrase has become sufficiently pervasive that it often has a comic implication, as in the case with this headline.
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