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 ...

There were only two highly anticipated major horror flicks in 1984 that ended up being total misfires: Mark L. Lester’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Firestarter and Wes Craven’s stock-footage-stuffed ...

The late, great Wes Craven made several great horror movies in his four decades of filmmaking. However, Craven’s single greatest contribution to horror cinema was no doubt the creation of Freddy ...

The slasher genre reached its peak during the late 1970s and 1980s with gory hits such as John Carpenter's Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Child's Play, but out of all the gruesome contributions to ...

When the first "A Nightmare on Elm Street" film was released in 1984, nobody quite knew what the impact would be. That is certainly true for series star Robert Englund, who took on the role of Freddy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. And the actor — who played Freddy Krueger in 1984’s A Nightmare on Elm Street and seven subsequent sequels — is totally thrilled ...