Claim: Freddy Krueger from 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' was inspired by a real serial killer. We might be months away from Halloween, but that won't stop the internet from trying to scare you.

Since his first appearance in A Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984, Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) has solidified his place as one of the most iconic figures in horror cinema. To this day, he is ...

Freddy Krueger was released under the name "The Nightmare" in Dead by Daylight's sixth Chapter paid DLC.The DLC, released in October 2017, included both Freddy and the survivor Quentin Smith, a ...

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.

Ahead of the horror film's 40th anniversary, Robert Englund looks back on the making of 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' and tells PEOPLE how Freddy Krueger's iconic look came together.

How Many Nightmare on Elm Street Movies Are There? There are nine Nightmare on Elm Street/Freddy movies in all. That's the six main films (with Nightmare 2 perhaps being a timeline outlier), Wes ...

After almost 40 years of haunting your dreams—seriously—in the “Nightmare on Elm Street” franchise, the actor talks The Daily Beast’s Obsessed through his iconic career.

The seventh movie, "Wes Craven's New Nightmare," takes a different approach that sees Freddy Krueger enter the real world to terrorize the actual filmmakers behind his movies.