Elm Street Franchise

All movies done in the series and freddie acted by Robert Englund:
A nightmare on elm street

A nightmare on elm street 2: freddy's revenge

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)

The nightmare on elm street movies were said to be the most succesful slasher movies and it started an all new sub genre of the slasher movie with this movie bringing in the supernatural aspect into the genre, introducing an all new angle on the visceral and physical effect on the audience.

Written under the working title of A Nightmare on Elm Street 7: The Ascension, Wes Craven set out to make a deliberately more cerebral film than recent entries to the franchise - which he regarded as cartoonish and not faithful to his original themes. This was the main reason for changing some of the themes involved in the film and modifying the mask slightly to make it look more scary. More of the props of the original movie have been changed or modified to fit in with the more sinister theme of the movie, for instance the glove which was made to be more sinister.This last movie, wes cravens new nightmare was preceded by freddy's dead and it was followed by freddy vs jason which was a merge of two of the most popular characters within the slasher genre and both have made a name of themselves through killing people and contrasting in their killings.