Victor Creel, a former victim of Vecna, was portrayed by Robert Englund in Stranger Things‘ fourth season most recently. Englund demonstrated his acting prowess despite appearing in just one episode with a mesmerising performance. Freddy Kruger from The Nightmare on Elm Street, a horror classic, has also performed in other magnificent productions. Which of his movies are the most cherished by fans was determined by Ranker. Look at the best Robert Englund movies below.
1. A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
Director- Wes Craven
The Springwood Slasher is a psychopath by the name of Fred Krueger. He slaughtered a number of kids in the early 1980s. All by using a glove with straight razor blades sewn to the fingers. An enraged mob of parents, whose children Krueger tortured and killed, burn Krueger alive in the boiler room where he worked. That’s when a judge makes a stupid decision and frees him. The surviving children of the parents who killed Jason Krueger had frightening nightmares about a burned guy wearing a glove with razor blades on the fingers years after their father’s passing.
Their dreams are plagued by the ghost of Fred Krueger. When Tina, Nancy’s best friend, suddenly passes away while fighting Krueger in one of their nightmares, Nancy comes to the realisation. It is that either she must put an end to the horrible psychopath’s reign of terror. Or she will never be able to sleep again.
2. Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)
Director- Wes Craven
After a stalker upended the lives of Heather Langencamp, her husband, and her son Dylan, she is attempting to regain her composure. Meanwhile, a sinister power has selected Freddy Krueger’s persona as its entrance into the actual world. Suddenly, Dylan starts griping about a man with blades for fingers who is repelled by his T-Rex toy. Heather’s husband turns up dead, as does his team working on a mechanical glove for a new Elm Street movie. Calls to Wes Craven and Robert Englund movies show that there is unquestionably a problem. Heather comes to the realisation that playing the part of Nancy Thompson one last time in an effort to permanently lock this evil spirit in the tales of Elm Street. It is the only way to save her kid. Hence, prevent this terrible power from entering the actual world after a visit to Wes.
3. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
Director- Renny Harlin
After appearing to have died in the last Nightmare movie, Freddy Krueger reappears. He promptly hunts down and murders the remaining three Elm Street kids. Kristen Parker, who has the power to attract people into her dreams, bequeaths her unique talent to her new closest friend Alice Johnson before she passes away. She then quickly understands that Freddy is using the secret power she now possesses. All in order to draw a fresh generation of teenagers into his evil world.
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
Director- Chuck Russell
Nancy has grown up and is now a psychotherapist with a focus on dream therapy, continuing the story from the first Nightmare. She runs into a bunch of kids fighting Freddy Krueger at a neighbourhood hospital, the same monster she had dreamed of. Kristen, who has the ability to invite others into her dreams, is one of them. Nancy aids the children in realising their unique powers within the nightmare universe while collaborating with a male doctor assigned to the case. In an effort to put Krueger’s ghost to rest once and for all, she leads a rescue operation inside his territory when Freddy kidnaps one of her charges.
5. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)
Director- Jack Sholder
The former home on Elm Street of Nancy Thompson is now occupied by Jesse Walsh and his family. Soon after they move in, Jesse starts having terrifying nightmares in which a burned man with knives on his right hand’s fingers is wearing a dirty red and green sweater. Lisa, his next-door neighbour and new love interest, learns the truth about Fred Krueger and his horrific murderous rampage. Freddy makes a promise to inhabit Jesse’s body and carry out his heinous crimes against the people of Elm Street. People close to Jesse soon begin horribly dying.
6. Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
Director- Ronny Yu
Freddy Krueger sits in Hell four years after being murdered by his daughter. He draws his energy from the aspirations of the residents of Springwood. Freddy is helpless, though, as the community hides his existence in an effort to make people forget. In a last-ditch effort, he rescues Jason Voorhees from his own personal Hell and dispatches him to Elm Street with the intention of terrifying the teenagers in Springwood. However, when Jason wouldn’t stop murdering Freddy’s kids, Krueger made the decision that Voorhees ought to be put down. Will and Lori, who have both known Freddy before, are caught in the crossfire.
7. Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
Director- Rachel Talalay
The final performance given by Freddy Krueger! They attempted to burn him. In an effort to bury him. With holy water, they attempted to wash him away. However, as Freddy famously put it, “You can never kill me. Sticks and stones may break my bones.” However, enough is enough! It’s time someone made Freddy put away his cap and claws permanently. Join the notorious Springwood Slasher as he confronts a fresh group of victims and the past that turned him into the monster he is in the most pivotal episode of the A Nightmare on Elm Street series.
8. Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)
Director- Stephen Hopkins
The fifth entry in the well-known series centres on Alice, a fourth-film survivor who thinks Freddy Krueger has been permanently eradicated. She has a positive outlook and wishes to begin a life with Dan, another survivor. Soon enough, though, Alice finds out she is expecting and the nightmares start. Alice thinks Freddy is using the foetus inside her as a weapon when her friends start dying.
9. Hatchet (2006)
Director- Adam Green
When Ben and Marcus decide to take a boat tour of a supposedly cursed bayou, they are college students in New Orleans celebrating Mardi Gras. Their tour guide Shawn keeps them engaged as they meet up with several other travellers, among them the subduedly attractive Marybeth. Shawn tells them stories about a ghostly serial killer who prowls the marsh. Until someone or something starts killing off group members, they scoff off the stories.
10. Wishmaster (1997)
Director- Robert Kurtzman
An malevolent entity known as the Djinn causes destruction in ancient Persia before being imprisoned inside a stone, the fire opal. When a loading accident causes a statue to be split apart centuries later, the stone inside the statue is found. Young gemologist Alexandra Amberson inspects the object to determine its value. However, she unintentionally awakens the evil Djinn there. In no time at all, the Djinn is free to roam the streets, distorting people’s wishes and even killing them to steal their souls. Eventually, the Djinn assumes the persona of Nathaniel Demarest, a dapper man about town. He pursues Alexandra in both human and djinn forms in an effort to entice her to grant three wishes so that his abominable hordes can take over the Earth.
