Freddy Krueger was a slasher icon unlike the established boogeymen of the genre. Michael Myers, Leatherface, and Jason Voorhees were seemingly unstoppable killers, but they had at least one foot ...

Though it found its origins in the 1960s, with the likes of Psycho and Peeping Tom, it was the mid to late 1970s that really kickstarted the slasher craze, thanks to classics like The Texas Chain Saw ...

Fans consider the 1980s the high point of horror cinema for a reason. With home video becoming a standard part of every American home, and cable channels growing every day, distributors wanted ...

For decades, fans considered A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, which turns 40 this year, as the black sheep of the Freddy Krueger franchise. Coming out a mere year after Wes Craven’s ...

Amid the trend of reboots and legacy sequels in the horror genre, I’m disappointed about the future of the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, but the fate of another 1980s horror saga gives me hope.

Stalked by a burned man with blades on his fingers, a young woman in a nightgown runs through a hallway and into an abandoned factory. Suddenly the man jumps out from the shadows and plunges his ...

When it comes to slashers, two of the biggest icons of the sub-genre have been Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street ...

Trent Berchtold is a screenwriter with a degree in Creative Writing from Pepperdine University. Highly passionate about film, he has spent years honing his writing skills so that he may contribute to ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook It took Freddy Krueger three movies to start having some fun with his misdeeds, Chucky was that ...