By the time the franchise took a dive at the box-office with A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, Freddy was no longer very scary.
Jack Sholder put Freddy Krueger inside another dude, Renny Harlin put him in sunglasses, and Rachel Talalay nearly finished him off in Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors is the only film in the franchise that comes close to matching the original.
A Nightmare on Elm Street, from the brilliant mind of the late fright master Wes Craven, is a stone cold classic.