Robert Englund isn’t immune to a Freddy Krueger nightmare. The actor, 76, who first played the child killer in 1984’s Nightmare on Elm Street, reveals to PEOPLE that he has his own Freddy Krueger ...

Grace Neave is a TV & Movies Feature Writer for Collider. She’s an avid fan of horror, fantasy, coming of age, and cheesy teen flicks. Utterly obsessed with the 80s, you can usually find her watching ...

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 ...

At the height of his popularity, Freddy Krueger took his crusade against the citizens of Springwood to the small screen. But television only served to give him a few silly memes and dull his claws.

In 1984, the landscape of horror was changed with the release of Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street. Prior to the film’s ...

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 ...

Englund is looking back on 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' ahead of its 40th anniversary, recalling to PEOPLE how he frightened an unsuspecting waiter one day Courtesy of Warner Brothers ; Michael Ochs ...

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 ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to actor Robert Englund about his new documentary, "In Hollywood Dreams and Nightmares:The Robert Englund Story" in which he explains why he doesn't fear being a genre icon.

Aya Tsintziras is a freelance writer who writes about TV, movies, and has a particular interest in the horror genre. She has a Political Science degree from the University of Toronto and a Masters of ...

In Hollywood, sometimes being the leading man is less romance and more slasher. And there's only one that can haunt your waking world and your dreams. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: ...