Robert Englund, the face behind Freddy Krueger (the vilain from the "Nightmare In Elm Street" series), talks about how these movies changed his life to Canada.com.Englund has starred as a "strange creature" in a multitude of films and TV series - such as "Night Rider", "V" (as Willie, the alien), "Charmed", "Babylon 5" - but it was Freddy who really kicked his career up.
"It was some time after it came out," he said. "I was signing autographs at a science-fiction convention in New York, as a result of V, and the line (of people looking for autographs) changed from my nerdy sci-fi fans and horny Trekkies and it became the Freddy fans — girls in dog-collars and mohawks, and a lot of black. That’s when I realized it had really taken off."You can read the whole interview here: "Horror Icon Creating New Buzz"
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