Advertisement

Watch Robert Englund Talk About Wes Craven's Legendary 'Elm Street' Series

The original incarnation of the wildly popular Nightmare on Elm Street series ran for eight movies over three decades, from 1984 to 2003. It was a cultural phenomenon born from a partnership between two men: writer-director Wes Craven, who passed away Sunday at the age of 76, and his fiery star Robert Englund, who played the knife-gloved tormenter of teens, Freddy Krueger.

Related: Remembering Wes Craven’s Most Terrifically Terrifying Movies

In 2014, Yahoo Movies sat down with Englund for a lengthy chat about his work on the Nightmare films, which you can watch in two parts above and below. The guidance of Craven, of course, was frequent topic of conversation.

Related: Robert Englund, Courteney Cox, And Others Pay Tribute to Wes Craven

Among the stories: Englund talks about how he and Craven had to fight to secure Freddy’s iconic fedora when various other hats were tossed about before filming and how Craven had originally intended to end the series with 1991’s over-the-top Freddy’s Dead. Three years later though, Craven would approach Englund and original Nightmare star Heather Langenkamp for the “meta” life-imitating-art twist Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, which Englund said would prove to be his favorite film in the franchise.