These aren't your typical slasher movies, subverting the expectations of even hardened horror genre fans.

One, two, Freddy's coming for you... A whole generation of high schoolers found out the hard way that one dares not fall asleep in Springwood, Ohio unless they want to risk never waking. Wes Craven's ...

Fans consider the 1980s the high point of horror cinema for a reason. With home video becoming a standard part of every American home, and cable channels growing every day, distributors wanted ...

For decades, fans considered A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, which turns 40 this year, as the black sheep of the Freddy Krueger franchise. Coming out a mere year after Wes Craven’s ...

In the mid-1990s, horror was in a rut, but then came Scream in 1996. Wes Craven's meta slasher brought back the subgenre that had dominated the '80s, now with a fresh twist and a cast of up-and-coming ...

Amid the trend of reboots and legacy sequels in the horror genre, I’m disappointed about the future of the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, but the fate of another 1980s horror saga gives me hope.

Freddy’s box office appeal dwindled fast after its peak, but even the film that displayed that decline, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, was the highest-grossing slasher film of its ...

Horror is a broad canvas that covers many unique sub-genres, from zombie movies to haunted house flicks. None of them are as intertwined with the genre, however, as slasher horror movies. Some of ...

“Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” is a supernatural video-game slasher movie of astonishing clunky crudeness. No, the movie isn’t dumb fun. It’s flat-out bad, maybe even worse than the first film. The ...