Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Englund played Freddy Krueger for the first time in 1984 horror movie A Nightmare On Elm Street. (New Line Cinema/Alamy) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since rising to dominance in the early 1980s, slasher flicks have been one of the best known and most enduring genres of horror, making universally well known stars of the blood-soaked slashers that ...

Forty years ago, writer/director Wes Craven unleashed one of the most enduring horror franchises of all time with A Nightmare on Elm Street. With his 1984 film, Craven catapulted actor Robert Englund ...

Robert Englund's pitch for how he could return as A Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger would break franchise tradition in an intriguing way. The 1980s was a golden period for the creation of ...

As a society, we’re obsessed with charismatically evil villains, and perhaps none more than Freddy Krueger. Created by horror master Wes Craven for what was supposed to be a one-off movie, the ...

Dream Warriors director Chuck Russell recently expressed interest in returning to the Elm Street franchise, but with Jim ...

Wes Craven’s iconic horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street is finally getting the 4K treatment. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced on Thursday that the 40th anniversary of the original would be ...