Horror maestro Wes Craven passed away on Sunday, August 30 at the age of 76, leaving behind an impressive legacy of scary flicks that continue to mold and influence the genre today. This horror staple ...

LOS ANGELES, CA (KTRK) -- It's hard enough to redefine a genre once in a career, but horror virtuoso Wes Craven managed to do it twice. The prolific writer-director, who died Sunday at age 76, ushered ...

Of all the "Nightmare on Elm Street" movies, the original film remains the best thanks in part to a very simple but extremely effective premise expertly realized on a shockingly low budget. The idea ...

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 ...

Thanks to a boom in popularity for the slasher genre in the 1980s, horror changed forever. After John Carpenter changed the game in the late 70s with Halloween, a smorgasbord of doting imitators ...

One of Wes Craven's most critically underrated '90s films is heading to a new streaming home just in time for Valentine's Day ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Freddy Krueger, the vengeful child killer burned alive by angry parents, returns to haunt the dreams of their children when this ...

When Wes Craven made A Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984, his take on the slasher (if the film can even be classified as such) shook up the decade's array of masked and silent killers with Freddy ...