This year, Wes Craven’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” Wes Craven’s immortal horror classic, turns 40. The film, inspired by true events (watch the documentary “The Nightmare” for more), follows a group ...

Modern horror movies are known for featuring a “final girl”—a smart and self-assured female protagonist who manages to get away from the killer, even as everyone around her succumbs to his treacherous ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Simon is a Los Angeles-based journalist who covers film and TV. "At the time, my agents and the people around me were hoping that ...

In a 1997 interview, Wes Craven was asked to explain the difference between his latest movie, Scream, and his preceding film, Wes Craven’s New Nightmare. It was a fair question. After spending more ...

Writer/director Wes Craven’s original A Nightmare on Elm Street was released in November 1984, taking the world by storm. Craven changed the face of horror, and made New Line Cinema a true player in ...

Ahead of the 40th anniversary of A Nightmare on Elm Street, which first debuted in theaters on Nov. 9, 1984, stars Robert Englund and Heather Langenkamp are looking back on the making of the ...

Robert Brian Taylor is a Pittsburgh-based writer, editor, and critic. He is Collider's lead training editor and also contributes as a features editor and staff writer. For the site, he's interviewed a ...

As the “final girl” in the first and third installments of the Nightmare on Elm Street horror-movie series, Nancy Thompson never received the respect and adoration that Freddy Krueger has. Now, Nancy ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The original movie focuses on the suburban town of Springwood, Ohio, which is home to a tragic ...

Nancy Thompson may spend the majority of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies running away from Freddy Krueger, but Heather Langenkamp, who portrays her, isn’t straying away from Robert Englund. In fact ...