As the quick-witted, well-toasted, sweater-wearing, child-killing, sharp-clawed Freddy Krueger in the “A Nightmare ... girls and where he first saw surf-guitar legend Dick Dale.

The band is made up of Jason Voorhees singing lead, Ghostface on guitar, Freddy Krueger on bass (somehow, despite the knife-fingers), and Michael Myers on drums. As you might expect, it’s a ...

Freddy Krueger is one of the most iconic personalities in horror. Most of us grew up watching him kill teens who were unfortunate enough to live on Elm Street the way we were supposed to watch ...

Arguably one of the most enduring and captivating of these monsters is Freddy Krueger, the villain of the A Nightmare on Elm Street series who celebrates his 40th screen birthday this November.

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.

Freddy Krueger’s burned face, signature fedora, red-and-green-striped sweater, and of course, his knives for fingers were terrifying and a real novelty at the time, but after nearly four decades ...

With the release of “A Nightmare on Elm Street” 40 years ago, the horror villain Freddy Krueger clawed his way to becoming a pop culture phenomenon. By Jason Bailey When “A Nightmare on Elm ...