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1, 2, Freddy's coming for you... 3, 4, better lock your door... 5, 6, grab your crucifix... 7, 8, gonna stay up late... 9, 10, never sleep again... Template:/box-header The Wikipedia logo for A Nightmare on Elm Street A Nightmare on Elm Street is an American horror franchise that consists of nine slasher films, a television show, novels, and comic books. The franchise began with the film series, which was created by Wes Craven, with various other individuals taking over those jobs for each film sequel. The franchise is based on the fictional character of Freddy Krueger, introduced in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), who stalks and kills teenagers in their dreams; if Freddy kills the teenager in the dream world then they are ultimately killed in the real world. His motives were to seek revenge on their parents, who had burned him alive years before the events of the first Nightmare film. The original film was written and directed by Craven, who returned to co-script the second sequel, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), and to write and direct New Nightmare (1994). The original film was released in 1984, and following it a series of sequels was produced by the independent film company New Line Cinema. New Line often attributes the growth of their company to the success of the Nightmare franchise. The film series as a whole has received mixed reviews by critics, but has been a financial success at the box office. When comparing the United States box office grosses of other American horror film series, A Nightmare on Elm Street is the third highest grossing franchise in adjusted US dollars. In 1988, a television series was produced with Freddy as the host. The pilot episode focused on the night Freddy was burned alive by the angry parents of the children he had killed, though the rest of the series featured episodes with independent plots. Twelve novels, separate from the adaptations of the films, and multiple comic book series were published featuring Freddy Krueger. More on A Nightmare on Elm Street... Template:/box-footer A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge is the second film in the Nightmare on Elm Street series of slasher films. It was released in 1985 by New Line Cinema. The film was directed by Jack Sholder. It has been five years since the events of the first film. A new family, the Walsh's, have moved into the former home of Nancy Thompson. The Walsh's son, Jesse (Mark Patton), happens to move into Nancy's old room. He eventually begins to have nightmares of Freddy (Robert Englund) demanding that Jesse kill for him and using Jesse as a host body to come back to life in the real world. Nightmare series creator Wes Craven refused to work on this film because he never wanted or intended A Nightmare on Elm Street to become an ongoing franchise (and even wanted the first film to have a happy ending), and also because the movie changed the premise of the first film with Freddy deciding to attack people in the waking world, rather than avoiding this in favor of killing people in their dreams. Craven also said that he did not like the idea of Freddy manipulating the protagonist into committing the murders. Continue... More Heather Langenkamp was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and attended Holland Hall School there. She is the daughter of Mary Alice Langenkamp, an artist; and Robert Dobie Langenkamp, Jr., a petroleum attorney and who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy in both the Carter Administration (where he was largely responsible for realizing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) and Clinton Administration (where he was largely responsible for privatizing Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1), and as Director of the National Energy & Environmental Law & Policy Institute of the University of Tulsa College of Law. Langenkamp's first acting venture was in her late teens: a small part in Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders (1983), filmed to a large extent in Tulsa, while she was attending Booker T Washington High School. While she was studying at Stanford University, Wes Craven cast her as teen heroine Nancy Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street, the first film in the series. She starred in two of the film's sequels. In between starring roles, she played Marie Lubbock on the television series Just the Ten of Us from 1988 to 1990. Langenkamp starred in Fugitive Mind in 1999. In 2007, she played a role in the Italian independent film The Bet. She is also credited as AFX production coordinator as Heather Langenkamp Anderson on the 2007 film Evan Almighty. Continue... More A Nightmare on Elm Street • Freddy's Revenge • Dream Warriors • Dream Master • Dream Child • Freddy's Dead • New Nightmare • Freddy vs. Jason (Soundtrack+ Score) • 2010 remake • Freddy Krueger • Wes Craven • Nancy Thompson • Characters • Cast Members • Franchise • Freddy's Nightmares (Episodes) • House of Horror • Robert Englund • Heather Langenkamp • Jackie Earle Haley • John Saxon • Johnny Depp • Kyle Gallner • Thomas Dekker • Rooney Mara • Kellan Lutz • Clancy Brown • Connie Britton • Katie Cassidy • Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash • A Nightmare on Elm Street Comics Template:/box-footer Freddy Krueger is a fictional supernatural serial killer from the A Nightmare on Elm Street series of films. He is the only character to have appeared in every film in the series. Created by Wes Craven and portrayed by actor Robert Englund in eight films and a TV series between 1984 and 2003, he is an undead serial killer, who can attack his victims from within their own dreams. Freddy is commonly identified by his burned, disfigured face, red and dark green striped sweater, brown fedora hat, and trademark metal-clawed brown leather glove. Wizard magazine rated him the 14th greatest villain, the British television channel Sky2 listed him 8th, and the American Film Institute ranked him 40th on its "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains" list. Wes Craven claims his inspiration for the basis of Krueger's power stemmed from several stories in the Los Angeles Times about a series of mysterious deaths: All the victims had reported recurring nightmares beforehand, and died in their sleep. Other than that, Craven's inspirations for Freddy included a homeless man who had frightened Craven as a youth and a bully at his school. The 1970s pop song "Dream Weaver" by Gary Wright sealed the story for Craven, giving him not only a creative springboard, but the synthesizer riff from the Elm Street soundtrack. Continue... More 200px Jared Padalecki, star of the 2009 remake of Friday the 13th at the Comic-Con International in 2008. More... ... that in A Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy Krueger is always referred to as "Fred Krueger"? Submit trivia! More... ▼ A Nightmare on Elm Street ► A Nightmare on Elm Street characters How is this for a wet dream? — A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master 100px B-class A Nightmare on Elm Street Start-class Freddy's Revenge • Dream Warriors • Dream Master • Dream Child • Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare • Wes Craven's New Nightmare • Wes Craven • Nancy Thompson • A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise) • Freddy's Nightmares • Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash • Freddy Krueger Future-class A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 film) Template:/box-footer Robert Englund on the cast for the 2010 remake of the original 80px 50px [...] I'm a big fan of Clancy Brown's, [...] I've been a big fan of Clancy's since Highlander. I love Connie Britton on Friday Night Lights. [..] If she's playing Marge, she's perfect as that alcoholic mom. [...] I love the boy from Sarah Connor Chronicles (Thomas Dekker). I think he's a really interesting choice. So in terms of those characters I'm really pleased. I don't know the director (Samuel Bayer)'s work, but my feeling is that Michael Bay [...] would not put his name on this if he didn't have some real love for the franchise. [...] [>] Cast members Erika Anderson • David Andrews • Patricia Arquette • Leah Ayres • Marshall Bell • Ronee Blakley • Beatrice Boepple • W. Earl Brown • Brooke Bundy • Tom Butler • Hope Marie Carlton • Garry Chalk • Christie Clark • Lezlie Deane • Johnny Depp • Elinor Donahue • Rodney Eastman • Bodhi Elfman • Robert Englund • Melinda O. Fee • Clarence Felder • Laurence Fishburne • Charles Fleischer • Brendan Fletcher • Jsu Garcia • Chris Gauthier • Wally George • Shon Greenblatt • Bradley Gregg • Clu Gulager • Danny Hassel • Ira Heiden • Miko Hughes • Katharine Isabelle • Andras Jones • Monica Keena • Paul Kent • Tuesday Knight • Rob LaBelle • Kyle Labine • Clayton Landey • Hope Lange • Heather Langenkamp • Evangeline Lilly • Ricky Dean Logan • Chris Marquette • Nan Martin • Tom McFadden • Nicholas Mele • Breckin Meyer • Tracy Middendorf • Kelly Jo Minter • Lochlyn Munro • Kim Myers • Toy Newkirk • David Newsom • Marne Patterson • Mark Patton • Priscilla Pointer • Linnea Quigley • Jason Ritter • Kelly Rowland • Jennifer Rubin • Robert Rusler • Ken Sagoes • Rudy Sarzo • John Saxon • Joe Seely • Tobe Sexton • Lin Shaye • Eric Singer • Michael Bailey Smith • Penelope Sudrow • Brooke Theiss • Jay Thomas • Joe Unger • Lyman Ward • Craig Wasson • Joseph Whipp • Lisa Wilcox • Matt Winston • Amanda Wyss • Lisa Zane Characters Alexandra Marie Coyle • Alicia Norris • Alice Johnson • Amanda Krueger • Chip Parker • Dan Jordan • Dean • Jason Voorhees • Jennifer Caulfield • Jerome Starkey • Jesse Walsh • Joey Crusel • Julie • Kristen Parker • Keith • Lori Campbell • Maggie Burroughs • Marge Thompson • Mark Grey • Neil Gordon • Rick Johnson • Rod Lane • Roland Kincaid • Sheila Kopecky • Taryn White • Tina Grey • Will Rollins • Will Stanton Template:/box-footer Here are some tasks you can do: edit Reference: A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise) Expand: Shorten plot synopsis: Freddy vs. Jason Merge: Copyedit: A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child Stubs: Template:/box-footer A Nightmare on Elm Street on Wikiquote Quotations A Nightmare on Elm Street • Freddy's revenge • Dream Warriors • Dream Master • Freddy's dead • New Nightmare • Freddy vs. Jason Template:/box-footer Template:/box-header 70px 70px Film Horror fiction Video games Comics What are portals? 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