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Either you want to hear some behind-the-scenes details on 976-EVIL , or you don't. For those who do, I wholeheartedly recommend HOLLYWOOD MONSTER: A WALK DOWN ELM STREET WITH THE MAN OF YOUR DREAMS , the too-long-titled autobiography of actor Robert Englund, forever beloved as horror icon Freddy Krueger.

Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn't make the front page of /Film. After the jump we've included 45 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more.

As always seems to be the case, if you want spoilers on the hottest movies today, you need to have your eyes on the world of plastic! Mezco may have lost the New Line House of Horrors license to NECA, but it seems they'll be dishing out some A Nightmare on Elm Street goodness alongside the new film anyway.

There has been a resurgence of interest in horror recently, with zombies and vampires in particular colonizing our cinema screens in ever greater numbers.

We're in the home-stretch now! To get into the spooky spirit of things, Ia m doing a countdown of my favorite scary movies of all time.

I can confirm that the Samuel Bayer/Platinum Dunes production of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET test screened last week in El Segundo.

Robert Englund was the original Freddy Krueger and has been associated with the role for 25 years.

The first time I saw Wes Cravena s A Nightmare on Elm Street, I was twelve years old, flipping through the wasteland of late night television and saddened that I was not able to go trick-or-treating with my friends during a dull Halloween.

'The first I heard about it was people were suggesting me on the Internet for the part,' Jackie Earle Haley says.

"Paranormal Activity," you'd think it was the first low-budget horror film that ever managed to get a rise out of audiences.

Apart from the stray slasher flick, Halloween is traditionally a dead spot on the Hollywood calendar.

With the end of the '80s came a new wave of horror films. Solid horror franchises were winding down and the old horror staples of cats jumping out of closets were growing old.

Oscar-nominated actor tells MTV News his Freddy Krueger is 'not much of a comedian.' By Larry Carroll, with reporting by Vanessa White Wolf Views 5 {"widget": "Statistics", "args":{"containerId":"wStatistics", "contentUri": "mgid:uma:content:mtv.com:1624947", "ratings_title": "Article"}} {"widget": "Share", "args":{"containerId":"wShare", ...

To get into the spooky spirit of things, I'm doing a countdown of my favorite scary movies of all time.

Olivia Mayes grew up on Elm Street. So imagine her horror when she learned one of the creepiest features ever brought a slice-and-dice serial killer way too close to her backyard.

Robert Englund, the actor who created Freddy Krueger, now stars in a horror Web series called "Fear Clinic." Freddy Krueger was the No.

One can criticize Wes Craven's latest horror movie--a low-budget shocker that has already grossed $20 million worldwide--for a few unnecessary visual gimmicks, for a conclusion that departs from the writer-director's original scheme, and for Ronee Blakely's baroque hambone performance as a tremulous alcoholic who stresses each statement as if it ...

While we wait for Platinum Dunes to tarnish yet another beloved franchise with this Aprila s A Nightmare on Elm Street remake, therea s still a Freddy project that we can all look forward to this Spring.

Written, shot and edited here in San Diego by locals Johno Wells and Justin Adams, this tale of an addict trying to stay clean uses improvised dialogue to get its point across.