User blog:ARTaylor/30 Years of A Nightmare on Elm Street

Today is the thirtieth anniversary of the release of A Nightmare on Elm Street. The iconic film launched a popular horror franchise that was followed by five sequels, a meta-sequel, a crossover with the Friday the 13th series, and a remake. It launched several novels, video games, a television series, and several comic books including some from Marvel Comics. All but one of the films and television series has featured the talents of Vulture actor Robert Englund as the powerful villain Freddy Kruger, his most iconic role to date. The series also featured Lisa Zane as Freddy's daughter Maggie Burroughs in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare and Clancy Brown as one of Freddy's killers, Alan Smith, in the 2010 remake. Little known fact, David Warner was originally cast as Freddy, even going through make-up tests, before Englund got the role.