Wes Craven’s ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ Slashes into the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress

A handful of horror films have made their way into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry over the years, including Dracula, Bride of Frankenstein, Alien, Psycho, Rosemary’s Baby, The Shining, and The Exorcist, and now Freddy Krueger is getting in on the fun. This year’s new lineup of films that have been deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant,” […]

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Ready for Freddy? SYFY Celebrating Halloween Eve With All-Day ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ Marathon!

This is sadly the final week of SYFY‘s Halloween celebration, but the channel is ending things on a high note with an all-day marathon of Freddy Krueger’s best hits on Halloween Eve! Freddy takes over SYFY on Saturday, October 30th, beginning with the 2010 remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street at 8am EST. Don’t […]

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The Real ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ House is Back on the Market… With a Halloween Twist

It’s 1428 Elm Street in Springwood, Ohio in the movies but in real life the iconic house that Nancy Thompson calls home in A Nightmare on Elm Street is 1428 North Genesee Avenue in Los Angeles, California… and just in time for Halloween, it’s back on the market! The Los Angeles Times reports that the […]

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Kylie Jenner Launching a ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ Cosmetics Collection for Halloween

One of the more surprising mashups since Paris Hilton got the axe in the House of Wax, Kylie Jenner has announced a partnership with the Nightmare on Elm Street brand for Halloween. From Kylie Cosmetics, the spooky Kylie X Nightmare on Elm Street exclusive collection will be launching just in time for Halloween, on Tuesday, […]

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Debating Camp vs Trash in ‘Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

Looney Tunes. After back-to-back weeks of visually sumptuous horror films with Germany’s Der Samurai and Detroit‘s It Follows, Trace and I are tackling a franchise entry with the 30th anniversary of Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991). Joining us is Mark O. Estes, host of the Midnight Social Distortion podcast, who has strong nostalgic feelings for the […]

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Season 3 of Netflix’s “The Movies That Made Us” Will Spotlight ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ and ‘Friday the 13th’

The first two seasons of Netflix’s mini-doc series “The Movies That Made Us” went behind the scenes of classics including Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, Home Alone, Ghostbusters, and Die Hard, and we’ve learned today that the upcoming third season is going to be a horror-heavy offering that’ll arrive on Netflix just in time […]

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Mezco’s MDS Mega Scale Freddy Krueger Figure Says Five Phrases from the ‘Elm Street’ Films

Mezco has been showing off a bunch of upcoming MDS Mega Scale horror figures in recent weeks, including Leatherface, Pennywise, Predator and the original Xenomorph from Alien. Also on the way soon? A brand new Freddy Krueger figure! Mezco explains this morning, “The MDS Mega Scale Talking Freddy Krueger stands at a frightening 15” tall […]

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