A Nightmare on Elm Street
Greta Gibson Forever: An Analysis of Erika Anderson-Butler’s role in A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child has the largely undeserved reputation as one of the worst Elm Street sequels. I count myself among a growing number of fans who believe that is anything bu...
Exclusive: Thommy Hutson & Amanda Wyss Talk JINXED Audiobook!!
Never one to slow down, filmmaker/author/producer Thommy Hutson prefers to stay busy. Between writing and/or producing horror documentary favorites such as Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, Mo...
Why It’s so Hard to Trace the Origins of the Slasher Movie
There’s an endless debate as to what the first slasher movie actually is. Looking back on it, I think it’s a subject that warrants further investigation. But it doesn’t do any goo...
Script to Pieces: Wes Craven’s Nightmare on Elm Street 7
Welcome to Script to Pieces, a recurring feature at Wicked Horror where we look at the best, most interesting and at times most unbelievable horror movies that never happened. Sometimes...
Five Bad Sequels That Were Almost Good
Many horror sequels don’t live up to the original. Many more are simply bad. But nobody sets out to make a bad sequel. Things just get in the way, whether it be time budget or any other consider...
Was Freddy Krueger’s Body Just Identified?
On the first day of the new year, it was reported that the bones of Joseph Henry Loveless, bootlegger and murderer, had finally been identified. In 1979 his torso was found in in a burlap sack in a ca...
Ten of the Most Vicious Freddy Krueger Kills
The Nightmare on Elm Street series gave birth to one of the most iconic boogeymen ever to stalk the screen: razor-clawed, Christmas sweater wearing, profoundly burned madman Freddy Krue...
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) Never Sets Itself Apart from the Original [Retrospective]
In the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Nancy and her friends are plagued by strange dreams. A man with a razorblade glove and a fedora is stalking them in their sleep. His name is Fred Krueg...
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare Was a Sequel Ahead of its Time [Retrospective]
New Nightmare sees Freddy leaving the realm in which he was created. After his escape, he begins to plague the performers from the first Nightmare film. Like in the first picture, Heather Langenkamp i...