The late, great Wes Craven made several great horror movies in his four decades of filmmaking. However, Craven’s single greatest contribution to horror cinema was no doubt the creation of Freddy ...

Today, Nightmares Film Festival, which runs from October 16 to 19, reveals the packed first wave of its 2025 “Better Horror” program. From the newest work by Kevin Lewis (Willy’s Wonderland) and the ...

Horror is a genre filled with tropes and stylistic markers. So there’s long been a tendency to get self-reflective when it comes to horror. That means New Nightmare certainly isn’t the first meta ...

Nightmares Film Festival (Oct. 16 to 19, at the legendary Gateway Film Center) has unwrapped its complete tenth anniversary edition lineup. The “Cannes of horror,” as the four-day celebration of ...

The next two entries may be pretty much unwatchable, but the 2010 reboot is fully unwatchable. Jackie Earle Haley does his best, but there’s just no replacing Robert Englund. And, if you’re going to ...

The logo for the 2010 remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. New Line Cinema So what’s so bad about the remake? For starters, the whole thing just looks way too slick. All the grittiness of the original ...