Highest-ranked title
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Robert Englund has 36 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including A Nightmare on Elm Street.
2001
Horror
Dead & Buried
1981 · Movie · Actor
Top 27%Prime Video · Included
Wishmaster
1997 · Movie · Actor
Top 40%Prime Video · Included
The Midnight Man
2016 · Movie · Actor
Top 59%AMC+ · Included
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 67%Tubi · Free w/ ads
2001 Maniacs
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 75%Tubi · Free w/ ads
Red
2008 · Movie · Actor
Top 78%Tubi · Free w/ ads
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...
Dir. Wes Craven · With Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund
A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.
Dir. Chuck Russell · With Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, Craig Wasson
as Self
For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.
Dir. Andrew Kasch, Daniel Farrands · With Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Wes Craven
A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?
Dir. Wes Craven · With Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Miko Hughes
After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
Dir. Gary Sherman · With James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson
Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenagers of Elm Street. Only this time, they're out to get each other, too.
Dir. Ronny Yu · With Robert Englund, Ken Kirzinger, Monica Keena
The Djinn, having been released from his ancient prison, seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to take over the earth.
Dir. Robert Kurtzman · With Angus Scrimm, Andrew Divoff, Tammy Lauren
Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves.
Dir. John Milius · With Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Gary Busey
The next great psycho horror slasher has given a documentary crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the sleepy town of Glen Echo, all the while deconstructing the conventions and archetypes of the horror genre for them.
Dir. Scott Glosserman · With Nathan Baesel, Angela Goethals, Robert Englund
as Freddy Krueger
Freddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a young woman who may be able to defeat him for good.
Dir. Renny Harlin · With Robert Englund, Rodney Eastman, Danny Hassel
A girl and her friends find a game in the attic that summons a creature known as The Midnight Man, who uses their worst fears against them.
Dir. Travis Zariwny · With Gabrielle Haugh, Grayson Gabriel, Lin Shaye
The evil, sinister killer of the "Nightmare On Elm Street" movies, Freddy Krueger, hosts this show, where each week, he shows us a tale of evil and death about the lives of people who live in Springwood.
Dir. Wes Craven, Jeff Freilich · With Robert Englund
as Freddy Krueger
A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger, who is out to possess him in order to continue his reign of terror in the real world.
Dir. Jack Sholder · With Mark Patton, Robert Englund, Kim Myers
To the Los Angeles elite, Ford Fairlane is known as "Mr. Rock 'n' Roll Detective." This loudmouthed ladies' man serves an exclusive rock star clientele, who depend on his keen eye and smug discretion. So when a heavy-metal musician dies mid-concert, Fairlane is on the case before the lights come up. But things turn shocking when radio personality Johnny Crunch hires Fairlane to find a missing groupie mere hours before he is electrocuted live on air.
Dir. Renny Harlin · With Andrew Dice Clay, Wayne Newton, Priscilla Presley
as Erik Destler / The Phantom
An aspiring opera singer finds herself transported back to Victorian-era London -- and into the arms of a reclusive, disfigured maestro determined to make her a star.
Dir. Dwight H. Little · With Robert Englund, Jill Schoelen, Alex Hyde-White
A college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends.
Dir. Jamie Blanks · With Alicia Witt, Jared Leto, Rebecca Gayheart
As a child Jack Brooks witnessed the brutal murder of his family. Now a young man he struggles with a pestering girlfriend, therapy sessions that resolve nothing, and night classes that barely hold his interest. After unleashing an ancient curse, Jack's Professor undergoes a transformation into something not-quite- human, and Jack is forced to confront some old demons... along with a few new ones.
Dir. Jon Knautz · With Trevor Matthews, Robert Englund, Daniel Kash
A psychotic redneck owns a dilapidated hotel in rural East Texas, where he murders those who upset him or his business, and then feeds their remains to his pet crocodile in the swamp beside his hotel.
Dir. Tobe Hooper · With Neville Brand, Mel Ferrer, Carolyn Jones
On their way to Spring Break, college kids take a detour through an old Southern town. The people of Pleasant Valley insist the kids stay for their annual barbecue celebration... but instead of getting a taste of the old South, the old South gets a taste of them!
Dir. Tim Sullivan · With Robert Englund, Giuseppe Andrews, Peter Stormare
A small group of human resistance fighters fight a desperate guerilla war against the genocidal extra-terrestrials who dominate Earth.
Dir. Kenneth Johnson · With Jane Badler, Michael Durrell, Robert Englund
A bullied unpopular high school student named Hoax finds an ad for 976-EVIL, a number that provides daily 'horrorscopes'. But when he calls the number he gains demonic powers, which he uses to seek vengeance against those who bullied him.
Dir. Robert Englund · With Stephen Geoffreys, Patrick O'Bryan, Sandy Dennis
Avery, a reclusive older man, has a best friend in his dog, Red. When three teens kill Red without reason, Avery sets out for justice and redemption, attempting to follow the letter of the law. But when the law fails him, and the boys' father clearly defines right and wrong in his own way, Avery must avenge himself by any means possible.
Dir. Lucky McKee, Trygve Allister Diesen · With Brian Cox, Noel Fisher, Kyle Gallner
as Freddy Krueger
The pregnant Alice finds Freddy Krueger striking through the sleeping mind of her unborn child, hoping to be reborn into the real world.
Dir. Stephen Hopkins · With Lisa Wilcox, Robert Englund, Erika Anderson
as Jim Bickerman
Black Lake is now a crocodile sanctuary, surrounded by an electric fence. When the fence is left open, a high-school bus unknowingly enters the park. It's up to Reba and the Sheriff to save the kids from becoming crocodile food.
Dir. Don Michael Paul · With Yancy Butler, Robert Englund, Daniel Black
Once again, Earth is the battleground. But now the aliens whose human guise hides their true reptilian natures are wiser. They believe the secret to their survival on Earth lies in the DNA of the newly born half-human, half-spaceling Starchild. But that's something the world's Resistance Fighters cannot allow.
Dir. Kenneth Johnson · With Jane Badler, June Chadwick, Jennifer Cooke
A pierced and tattooed sadist, Captain Howdy, trolls the Internet for naive teens, luring them to his home to torture and defile them. When Howdy kidnaps and tortures the daughter of police Detective Mike Gage, he is caught. Deemed insane, he is sent to an asylum but is released soon after, seemingly better. However, Gage knows it is only a matter of time before Howdy strikes again, and he's ready to unleash his own form of retribution when the time comes.
Dir. John Pieplow · With Kevin Gage, Elizabeth Peña, Brett Harrelson
as Freddy Krueger
Just when you thought it was safe to sleep, Freddy Krueger returns in this sixth installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street films, as psychologist Maggie Burroughs, tormented by recurring nightmares, meets a patient with the same horrific dreams. Their quest for answers leads to a certain house on Elm Street -- where the nightmares become reality.
Dir. Rachel Talalay · With Lisa Zane, Robert Englund, Shon Greenblatt
as Robert Englund (voice) · Voice
In pursuit of an unclaimed $125,000 prize, a broke college dropout decides to play an obscure, 1980s survival computer game. But the game curses her, and she’s faced with dangerous choices and reality-warping challenges. After a series of unexpectedly terrifying moments, she realizes she’s no longer playing for the money but for her life.
Dir. Toby Meakins · With Iola Evans, Asa Butterfield, Robert Englund
Six of the worlds scariest psychopaths escape from a local Asylum and proceed to unleash terror on the unsuspecting crowd of a Halloween Funhouse whose themed mazes are inspired by their various reigns of terror.
Dir. Andy Palmer · With Robert Englund, Jere Burns, Scottie Thompson
As a lone spaceship proceeds on its long voyage across space, the crew are surprised to encounter a strange pyramid form. Surprise turns to horror as one by one, they discover that their darkest nightmares are all starting to become real. The pyramid has to be behind it all somehow, but how can they save themselves from its influence?
Dir. Bruce D. Clark · With Edward Albert, Erin Moran, Ray Walston
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