Robert Englund's story will be documented in a new documentary called Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story.
Englund said about his documentary, "I have great stories and I've known that for the last five to 10 years. There's a point in time when I realized, 'Oh my God, I starred in a movie with Henry Fonda and Jeff Bridges, and I worked with a silent screen star, Lillian Gish, and all these Oscar winners, and I was up for strange television shows that I thought were a matter of life and death, and now no one even remembers them.' That's the body of a career, when you look back at it, no pun intended."
He said about meeting Wes Craven for the first time, "So in my subconscious, I'd mixed David Lynch and Wes Craven together, and I was curious to work with Wes. I imagined him as a dark genius because of having a cocktail and watching clips from his films. When I heard he was directing this project, that was the hook that made me want to do the interview. I read the script, which was wonderful and dark and strange. Then, Wes recounted at the interview, this debonair guy in a Ralph Lauren outfit, he recounted the story to me and his vision of Nightmare on Elm Street and I was hooked. I really wanted to be in it."
In an interview with People, Englund shares his Freddy Krueger nightmare that still scares him to this day.
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