Ahead of the 40th anniversary of A Nightmare on Elm Street, which first debuted in theaters on Nov. 9, 1984, stars Robert Englund and Heather Langenkamp are looking back on the making of the ...

Inspired by a mixture of his own childhood experiences and a random series of sudden deaths during nightmares that were reported by The LA Times in the 1970s, in 1984 Wes Craven brought us one of the ...

Wes Craven's 1984 horror classic that introduced us to Freddy Krueger was inspired by an article about Asian Death Syndrome This is the latest instalment in our From the Vault feature series, in which ...

You may not know the name Robert Englund straight off, but his alter ego, Freddy Krueger, is known by millions. The burned child killer of nightmares--and slasher movie greatness--became something of ...

As horror movie remakes were becoming all the rage, audiences just had to accept they were going to happen. Even though it was seen as blasphemous to touch some of these classics, the machine was ...

The cold open with Freddy driving a school bus is cosmic horror at its finest. The beat is a strange, incredulous, and liminal descent into the machinations of Freddy’s powers, one that is never ...

A custom image of Freddy holding Nancy in Nightmare on Elm Street against a stormy background Image by Zanda Rice When Wes Craven directed A Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984, he changed the direction ...