Freddy Krueger was a slasher icon unlike the established boogeymen of the genre. Michael Myers, Leatherface, and Jason Voorhees were seemingly unstoppable killers, but they had at least one foot ...

These aren't your typical slasher movies, subverting the expectations of even hardened horror genre fans.

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 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 ...

There hasn't been a new chapter in the Nightmare on Elm Street movie series since the ill-fated 2010 remake, though it'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 ...

Stalked by a burned man with blades on his fingers, a young woman in a nightgown runs through a hallway and into an abandoned factory. Suddenly the man jumps out from the shadows and plunges his ...

Ahead of the 40th anniversary of A Nightmare on Elm Street, which first debuted in theaters on Nov. 9, 1984, stars Robert Englund and Heather Langenkamp are looking back on the making of the ...

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 ...

On one hand, this is because New Nightmare is light on kills and Jason does the vast majority of the killing in Freddy vs. Jason. On the other hand, it’s because the bloody dream sequences seen in the ...

Given the number of new horror movies that cross our screens on a yearly basis, it’s really quite remarkable to consider that the twin titans of ’80s slashers, once renowned for their near-annual ...