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Wes Craven's Horror Classic Nightmare On Elm Street Has A Shocking Real World Inspiration

Freddy Krueger might be fictional, but Wes Craven's horror classic, A Nightmare on Elm Street, was inspired by a pretty ...

'A Nightmare on Elm Street 2': How a straight director made a queer classic

On the eve of his film's 40th anniversary, director Jack Sholder sets the record straight on how much he knew about the ...

Robert Englund Reveals Why We Haven't Had a New 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in 15 Years

Robert Englund, the horror legend best known for playing the character Freddy Krueger, has shared what he believes to be the ...
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Best A Nightmare on Elm Street Movies (November 2025)

If you're working your way through the most iconic slasher franchises, here are the best A Nightmare on Elm Street movies.

One of the Scream Movies Owes a Lot to This Brilliant Nightmare on Elm Street Sequel

The Nightmare on Elm Street movies followed a rather simple formula, no matter how crazy the sequels got: Freddy Krueger, a ...
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‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ at 40: Still the Best of The ‘80s Slashers

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 ...

2010's A Nightmare on Elm Street was "premature", says OG actor Robert Englund – but he'd be eager to see a re-do of Part 2 and a franchise-ending prequel soon

You don't need to be a genre fan to know that Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street is widely considered one of the best ...