Despite (or because of) its outsized critical and commercial success, director Wes Craven’s Nightmare On Elm Street was the slasher movie that essentially doomed the sub-genre for a decade after its release. When the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise began in 1984, few viewers could have guessed how big an impact Robert Englund’s irreplaceable Freddy Krueger would have on the history of horror cinema.
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