If audiences are willing to pretend that they’ve never seen Freddy Krueger—and the crowd I was with was primed—at least give them the privilege of a tease. Unfortunately, this remake of Wes Craven’s ...

In 1984, the landscape of horror was changed with the release of Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street. Prior to the film’s release, horror fans felt safe when they slept, but the introduction of ...

The logo for the 2010 remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. New Line Cinema So what’s so bad about the remake? For starters, the whole thing just looks way too slick. All the grittiness of the original ...

Thanks to a boom in popularity for the slasher genre in the 1980s, horror changed forever. After John Carpenter changed the game in the late 70s with Halloween, a smorgasbord of doting imitators ...

The late, great Wes Craven made several great horror movies in his four decades of filmmaking. However, Craven’s single greatest contribution to horror cinema was no doubt the creation of Freddy ...