Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Englund played Freddy Krueger for the first time in 1984 horror movie A Nightmare On Elm Street. (New Line Cinema/Alamy) ...

A new original play, Nightmare at Camp Killamanbimbo brings 80s nostalgia, comedy, and mystery to the stage. Written by local ...

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 ...

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 ...

Freddy Krueger, played by actor Robert Englund, wielding his finger knives against a blue and black background. Image by Zanda Rice In the 1970s and early '80s, horror created several new icons thanks ...

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 ...

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 ...