So what’s so bad about the remake? For starters, the whole thing just looks way too slick. All the grittiness of the original film vanished, replaced with a sleek and shiny commercial look. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

The iconic horror movie celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. When it comes to slasher icons, only one name has haunted the thoughts -- and dreams -- of horror fans for the last 40 years: Freddy ...

When Wes Craven made A Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984, his take on the slasher (if the film can even be classified as such) shook up the decade's array of masked and silent killers with Freddy ...

Freddy’s box office appeal dwindled fast after its peak, but even the film that displayed that decline, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, was the highest-grossing slasher film of its ...