Freddy Krueger, played by actor Robert Englund, wielding his finger knives against a blue and black background. Image by Zanda Rice In the 1970s and early '80s, horror created several new icons thanks ...

On one hand, this is because New Nightmare is light on kills and Jason does the vast majority of the killing in Freddy vs. Jason. On the other hand, it’s because the bloody dream sequences seen in the ...

Freddy Krueger was always at least middle-aged, but now his whole series is about to follow suit: A Nightmare on Elm Street, the Wes Craven slasher classic, is turning 40 shortly after Halloween. It’s ...

Freddy’s box office appeal dwindled fast after its peak, but even the film that displayed that decline, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, was the highest-grossing slasher film of its ...

Making a movie is no easy task. Anything and everything can go wrong, no matter how big the budget or how talented your crew is. So why not make a film that capitalizes on those very struggles, while ...

To paraphrase John Huston’s villainous Noah Cross in “Chinatown,” politicians, old buildings, and disreputable movie genres all get respectable if they last long enough. Take the slasher film, for ...

One, two, Freddy's coming for you... A whole generation of high schoolers found out the hard way that one dares not fall asleep in Springwood, Ohio unless they want to risk never waking. Wes Craven's ...