The slasher genre reached its peak during the late 1970s and 1980s with gory hits such as John Carpenter's Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Child's Play, but out of all the gruesome contributions to ...

If you’ve worked your way through the Halloween and Friday the 13th franchises and are at Nightmare on Elm Street, congratulations. You’re about to complete the main slasher trifecta. Here are the ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. When the first "A Nightmare on Elm Street" film was released in 1984, nobody quite knew what the impact would be. That is ...