We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When the team at New Line Cinema set out to make "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare," they intended to kill off the dream demon of Elm Street ...

When it comes to the A Nightmare on Elm Street sequels, there’s one that’s almost universally regarded as the lesser of those first seven films: Freddy’s Dead. As someone who appreciates the sixth ...

Close-up of American actor Robert Englund (as Freddy Krueger) on the set of the film "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare" (directed by Rachel Talalay), Sierra Madre, California, circa 1990. Englund, ...

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 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 ...

Just for the record, Robert Englund has nearly 200 movie and TV credits on his IMDb page, but he realizes that he’ll always be known for the ones in which he’s covered in latex and terrorizing ...