“I said its going to be too much like [‘Elm Street’ character] Freddy Krueger. It’s going to be horrible. But there’s this guy named Jim Carrey who has just come out in living color.
Instead of lumbering killers punishing libidinous college kids, it introduced dream demon Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), who attacks the teenagers of Springwood, Ohio, in their sleep.
It never quite achieved the status of other big horror icons such as Michael Myers and Freddy Krueger, and likely suffered from being released the year after Scream. However, it captures the fun ...