Everybody knows about Freddy Krueger, even if they’ve never watched any of the “A Nightmare on Elm Street” movies. Robert Englund’s dream-haunting villain is a pop culture icon who became a literal cartoon character and ended up on everything from sneakers to breakfast cereal.
Go back to the original “Nightmare” movies, though, and you’ll find a sadistic killer whose gleeful malevolence is often terrifying. Now is the perfect time to revisit the “Nightmare” movies or experience them for the first time, since they’ll be leaving Netflix at the end of this month.
