From Horror Movie To Horror Comic: A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)

Posted on September 23, 2026 by bloodlinematt

Welcome back to another very terrifying “From Horror Movie To Horror Comic” update here on Rotten Ink. As we are getting closer to Halloween 2026, I think that we should really up the scares here as the topic of this update is the 1984 slasher classic “A Nightmare On Elm Street,” one of the most iconic horror films of all time that has sparked many sequels, a remake, merchandise, comic series, video games and its main baddie Freddy Krueger has been the source of many sleepless nights for viewers. And when choosing the first year line up for this themed update marathon, I knew that I needed to cover Freddy and I had lots of comic series to choose from as such publishers as Marvel, Avatar, Wildstorm and even Eternity Comics had a Freddy issue of Fright…but for me I had to choose the Innovation series as it’s the one I grew up reading and is one that I have really been looking forward to rereading as it’s been way too long since I have. And I know that A Nightmare On Elm Street and its killer Freddy Krueger is truly perfect way to give you the shivers down your spine as for generations they have brought fear to many worldwide. So with that said, let’s dive into this nightmare brought to you by Innovasion Comics and the one and only razor gloved killer Freddy!

Let’s start by taking a look at Freddy Kruger, the nightmare slasher of Springwood, Ohio that haunts and stalks peoples dreams and brings fear and death along with him. Freddy Krueger was a boiler technician for a power planet located in Springwood, Ohio and in his boiler room workshop he created a glove that had blades on the fingers that he would use to kill children that he would lure there as he was a cold blooded child killer who got away with over 20 killings, but after being caught and his trial being thrown out due to a technicality over a botched search warrant, he was set free and was then hunted down by the town’s parents who ended up setting him on fire and ending his terror once and for all…or so they thought. Freddy Krueger was somehow able to return to haunt the teens that live in Springwood via their dreams and they are the kids of those parents who killed him. He now has a burnt up face, wears a hat and a red and green sweater and his appearance alone is enough to scare a person to death. He has a gravely sounding voice and loves to taunt and play games with his victims in their nightmares; he is also very mean spirited and enjoys killing young kids as well as watching them be stricken with fear. Freddy in the nightmares cannot be hurt as he is able to have his face ripped off and his fingers cut off and he just bounces right back, if he is able to kill you in your nightmare then you die in the real world and the wounds you get are what kills you in reality. He can also appear and disappear in order to stalk his victims in their nightmare. Freddy can also distort his body in the nightmares including making his arms stretch out to add more scares to his victims. His main tool of dealing death is his custom made glove that has sharp knives on the fingers that he uses to slash, cut and rip apart his victims with. While Freddy is super powerful in the nightmare world, he can be hurt and defeated in the real world as if Freddy is grabbed by his victim in the nightmare and is woken up he will be in the real world where he can be hurt like any normal person. He can fully be defeated by a person turning their back on him in the real world and no longer fearing him causing him to just disappear, as with out the fear he has no power. Freddy Krueger is a dangerous supernatural killer who has no trouble killing and even when defeated seems to always come back for more.

Now that we have taken a look at Freddy Krueger and his killing ways, I think we should now take a look at the 1984 film he is from, A Nightmare On Elm Street. And like always, I will be getting the film’s plot from our friends at IMDB and then I will be writing about the film’s production as well as my thoughts on the film. So if you are ready, let’s take a big drink of coffee or soda and dive into the Nightmare that plagued Elm Street.

A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)

“Teenager Nancy Thompson must uncover the dark truth concealed by her parents after she and her friends become targets of the spirit of a serial killer with a bladed glove in their dreams, in which if they die, it kills them in real life.”

Wes Craven had already made some films that had made a splash in the world of horror that included The Last House On The Left (1972), The Hills Have Eyes (1977), Summer Of Fear (1978), Deadly Blessing (1981) and Swamp Thing (1982), and around 1981, Craven started working on the script for A Nightmare On Elm Street where he took elements from his childhood as well as strange deaths that took place while people slept with the killer of the film being based on a old man Craven as a kid seen out his bedroom window at night who looked back at him causing quite a scare. And while trying to pitch the film around Hollywood, he could not find a studio willing to back it as Disney was the only one who liked the idea but wanted it to be turned into a family friendly fight film…and Craven turned down the offer and he was rejected by Universal and Paramount as well leaving the film without a home that was until New Line Cinema stepped in and was willing to produce the film and gave it a budget of around $1.8 million. When it came to casting Freddy Krueger, the film’s dream slasher, they talked to many actors like David Warner, Kane Hodder and Robert Englund with it going to Englund in the end. Other cast members include Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Johnny Depp, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri, Ronee Blakley and Lin Shaye in big and featured roles. The film started filming on June 11, 1984 and was a fast shoot only lasting 32 days and took place in California and they were able to pull off some amazing effects on a budget and time strain. Once the film was done, Charles Bernstein handled the film’s score and it would be released in theaters limitedly on November 9, 1984 and then wide on November 16, 1984 and was a big hit at the box office going on to bring in $57.1 million and was well received by both fans and critics who enjoyed its creepy and spooky story and villain. And when released on home media the film would go on to gain even more of a fan base, and this film is what made New Line Cinema a player in Hollywood and they would call themselves “The House That Freddy Built”. The film would be so popular that it would spark a franchise that include the sequels “A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)”, “A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)”, “A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)”, A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)”, “Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)”, “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)” and “Freddy vs. Jason (2003)” and was even remade in 2010. The film would get the Bollywood treatment with “Khooni Murda (1989)” and “Mahakaal (1993)” and would inspire many horror films that would follow worldwide and would even have many fan films made based on it. The film and its slasher Freddy Krueger would also have tons of merchandise made around them like shirts, posters, toys, comics, books, trading cards, buttons and so much more. The film in 1984 was released alongside such other horror films as Friday The 13^th Part 4: The Final Chapter, The Terminator, The Toxic Avenger, The Hills Have Eyes Part 2, C.H.U.D., Children Of The Corn, Gremlins, Night Of The Comet, Splatter University, Razorback, Ghostbusters, Boggy Creek II, The Return Of Godzilla and Rats: Night Of Terror among many others.

I was that perfect age in 1984 when A Nightmare On Elm Street was released as I was five years old and the image of Freddy Krueger as well as people talking about him freaked out all the kids my age and made many of us afraid to go to sleep, worried that Freddy was going to enter our dreams and end our lives, just like what Jaws was for kids of the 70’s making them afraid to go swimming, Freddy was that in the 80’s as the youth became afraid to sleep. There is a funny story from my friend and comic artist Matt Maslow tells of the night my father allowed him and my brother to watch it when they both were young during a sleepover and the response he got from his mom when he got home…that is one thing that was so cool about my parents as they did allow us to watch horror films as they always explained that it was not real and that harming other people was a very bad thing. When I first saw A Nightmare On Elm Street I can remember being really creeped out by Freddy as his strange voice, burnt face, razor knifed glove hand and the fact he was killing kids and teens in their dreams made him down right frightening. The one thing that did set my young mind at ease was that he could only get those people in their dreams that lived in Springwood, Ohio, a fake town in the state. After viewing it I was hooked on all things Freddy as it was like a badge of honor going to school and telling my fellow classmates that I seen it. And to be honest, I am pretty much a fan of most of the films in the Nightmare On Elm Street series with my least favorite being the 2010 remake followed by 1989’s A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. A couple of other things I would like to point out is that I loved playing the old NES game based on the series and when at my grandparents’ home I use to play with a cool LJN figure of Freddy Krueger, not to even mention reading the Innovation Comics series. A Nightmare On Elm Street really is a horror classic that is on the Top 10 list of many fans of all time greats and is what truly made actor Robert Englund a household name and made Wes Craven one of the most respected directors in the horror genre.

One thing that I would like to very briefly talk about is that back in the late 80’s indie publisher Blackthorne Publishing, who was known for making comics based on movies, cartoons, toys and mascots that would be in 3-D and during this time, they were working on adapting A Nightmare On Elm Street into a 3-D comic…but sadly the company would close up in 1990 and many of the planned titles were being cancelled before the closure and A Nightmare On Elm Street was caught up in this as the comic would never be released with only an ad and some pages seeing the light of day. I really wished that this comic would have been made as it would have been awesome to have covered here on Rotten Ink and also would have been a comic that I was obsessed with as a kid. Check out the 3-D ad below to see what this comic could have been if it was completed.

So now that we have talked about the 1984 film “A Nightmare On Elm Street” as well as its slasher killer Freddy Krueger, we should now take a look at one of the many comic series based around them, and like I stated before I chose the Innovation Comics series as it’s the one I grew up reading. I am really looking forward to reading this series again as I have a lot of good memories as a youngster reading these comics in my room during storms as well as late nights trying to spook myself before going to bed. I would like to thank Game Swap, Lone Star and Bell Book And Comic for having these issues in stock and making this update possible. I would also like to remind you all that I grade these comics on a star scale of 1 to 4 and am looking for how well the comics stay to the source material, its entertainment value and its art and story. With that, let’s climb into bed, drink a glass of warm milk or sleepy time tea and fade into a nightmare world filled with Innovation Comics and Freddy Krueger.

Nightmares On Elm Street # 1 ***
Released in 1991 Cover Price $2.50 Innovation # 1 of 6

Cybil Houch is having a nightmare about Jack The Ripper as she finds herself as a lady of the night and in the sight of the killer, but things turn even darker as she is getting taunted by Freddy Krueger who starts to chase her as she panics and is looking for help from Nancy Thompson who she calling out to, just as Freddy leaps at her she wakes up safe in her home as her husband James tries to comfort her. Cybil has been reading lots of books about Jack The Ripper and is confused why her old collage roommate Nancy is in her nightmares and the root of getting help from the clawed killer after her. Cybil ends up deciding to try and call Nancy who she has not spoke to in years and notices that finding a phone # or address for her has been hard, but does end up talking to her other college roommate Priscilla Martin and her girlfriend Max and mentions weird dreams, and she finds out that Nancy use to work for Fairview. Cybil calls and ends up talking to Dr. Elizabeth Simms who informs her that Nancy passed away and that she needs to talk to a Dr. Neil Gordon as he might nave the answers to how it all happened. Meanwhile poor Priscilla has fallen asleep and finds herself in a nightmare where she is killed by Freddy who uses his glove and a sewing machine to end her life as it appears Freddy is also looking for Nancy who is somewhere in the dream world. Meanwhile Cybil gets ahold of Dr. Gordon and fills him in on her nightmares as well as that Nancy is present in them, he is not shocked and wants to hear more and is going to come pick her up, but Cybil passes out and ends up in the boiler room and is being chased by Freddy who ends up killing James who has fallen asleep at work by knocking him down a ladder. Freddy then goes after Cybil who is woken up by the phone ringer and finds that in her home is Nancy Thompson!

The first issue does a great job of bring Freddy Krueger to the world of comics and this story so far really does do a good job of staying true to the films it’s based on as the story is taking place after the events of the third film “A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors” as characters from that film are appearing and our hero Nancy Thompson is dead, well sort of dead. The plot has one of Nancy’s old college roommates being plagued by terrible nightmares that involved her as well as Freddy Krueger and this causes her to go down a rabbit hole that is pitting Freddy and Nancy against each other and she finds herself stuck in the middle of this good vs. evil battle. Cybil Houch is a woman who is a historian of the crimes of Jack The Ripper and has been having strange and wild nightmares about the killer that turns into Freddy Krueger who she has no clue who he is, she also seems to be thinking about her old collage roommate Nancy Thompson who also appears to be connected to her nightmares as Nancy Thompson has died unknown to her and this causes Cybil to be on the hit list of Freddy who needs her to be the key to find Nancy who is around in the Dream World or even just hiding from him in the real one. Freddy Krueger that knife gloved nightmare boogeyman is back on the loose running wild in peoples dreams bring death and fear as he seems to really want to find Nancy who is his biggest threat and someone he wants gone forever, and he even kills three people just in this issue gutting one, slice and dicing another and the last he flings down a very long ladder. And because it’s Freddy the comic of course has some blood being spilt on the panels and he as well is the main source of the horror. Also I like how the issue makes you wonder if Nancy is still alive or if she really is just roaming around the dream world staying out of reach of Freddy and trying to help people survive his attacks. When it comes to the cover for this first issue I have to say it is one of those iconic ones from my childhood as it was one that you would show your friends as having a comic based around Freddy made you cool, plus its just such a great cover as it showcases Freddy chasing a woman through the streets of London, just a very eye catching cover for fans of the film series as well as Horror Comics in general. The interior artwork is done by artist Tony Harris and is style is really good and creepy as it almost has a painting style look mixed with 80’s indie horror comic look. I really like the way he drew Freddy Krueger and his depiction of the Nightmare Worlds is also really well done. This is a really good start to this mini series as it gets you hooked with it not only having Freddy on the loose but also teases that Nancy is back and that just maybe other characters from the film series might appear as he has also seen both Dr. Neil Gordon and Dr. Elizabeth Simms from Fairview already! So with that, let’s jump into issue two and see what terrors Freddy has in store for not only use but also Cybil.

Nightmares On Elm Street # 2 ***
Released in 1991 Cover Price $2.50 Innovation # 2 of 6

Cybil is happy to see her old friend Nancy Thompson and she finds out that she is in a happier dream world and that Nancy is only sort of dead and that its been Freddy Krueger that has for over 20 years haunted the nightmares of the towns people, just then a knock at the door has Priscilla who is really Freddy Krueger appears and is able to drag Cybil out of the safe house causing Nancy to have to go after her, but Cybil wakes up and finds Dr. Neil Gordon in her home as he has found her after she passed out while talking to him on the phone. Dr. Gordon tells her the story of Freddy Krueger who was a child killer that was burned alive by the town’s parents and how he somehow got powers to enter peoples nightmares and if he kills you in the dream you die in the real world, and by using hypnosis Dr. Gordon and Cybil travel to the dream world to meet with Nancy as he wants to see if he can save her a bring her back, but she explains that she is the representation of good dreams now and that together they must find a way to make Freddy weak so that it takes him a very long time to return, so together the enter a nightmare of someone at Fairview and its bloody and chaotic, and while there he kills Dr. Elizabeth Simms by removing the top of her head and messing with her brain…causing our heroes to flee and into a place were Cybil meets her soon to be daughter as she just then finds out she is pregnant and as Freddy appears he is confronted and ripped apart by the spirits of the unborn children as Nancy sends Cybil and Dr. Gordon back to the real world. Cybil feels sick and runs to the restroom only to find herself trapped in White Chapel and Jack The Ripper is there with his razor ready to strike her down.

This second issue has Nancy Thompson and Freddy Krueger once more having a showdown of sorts as they are in the dream world with each of them having their own functions in nightmares and dreams. Cybil Houch is a woman who has been used as a pawn by Freddy as he is tormenting her in order to get to Nancy, she also during all this madness loses her husband to Freddy who kills him in his sleep. She also finds out that she is with child, that two of her collage roommate friends are dead, that she is on the hit list of a dream slasher and that in the end she might just end up becoming the victim of the old school serial killer she has spent her life studding. And while Cybil is sort of a final girl she really has nothing that can stop Freddy and his killing ways. Nancy Thompson had been sent to a very beautiful part of the dream world by the Dream Warrior known as Kristen Parker and she is now sort of in charge of making sure that when people sleep they have good dreams, she has been dodging Freddy in this landscape and is trying to get strong enough to defeat him, but she is not yet ready to bring down this knife gloved slasher. Dr. Neil Gordon tries to help Cybil as well as is so happy to see Nancy again who has been blocking his dreams from Freddy to keep him safe, meanwhile Dr. Elizabeth Simms finds herself having her brains exposed in a nightmare. Freddy Krueger is as vicious as ever as he slashes his way through victims killing them in painful ways and is still trying to play cat and mouse games with Nancy as he really wants to end her existence once and for all and is willing to use people she cares about to draw her out of hiding. While Freddy is on another nightmare slaughter he ends up being defeated by the “spirits” of unborn children that are so angry with him that they rip him apart and drag him into flames. The story done by Andy Mangels is great as he is able to bring several of the films stories together as well as leaves us with an ending that could mean of course that Freddy was not defeated as Cybil is becoming a victim of Jack The Ripper. This issue has some great bloody moments with the exposing of Dr. Simms brain being a highlight and the horror is turned up a notch as Freddy really is on a rampage of carnage here to try and get to Nancy. This is another iconic cover for me and should be super eye catching for the fans of the films as it shows both Nancy and Freddy. The interior artwork by Tony Harris is just as solid as it was in the last issue and he brings a creepy charm to the way he draws Freddy. This is another solid issue and makes me truly miss the days of indie publishers like Innovation making comic series based on popular horror films. Well let’s see what issue three has in store for us.

Nightmares On Elm Street # 3 ***
Released in 1991 Cover Price $2.50 Innovation # 3 of 6

Alice Johnson and her son Jacob are heading to Springwood so that she can settle her father’s estate. She does not want to come back after all her friends had been killed by Freddy Krueger and she herself had to battle the dream slasher several times as she was the Dream Master and even had to face him to save her own son’s soul while he was still in her womb. One they arrive at the old family home Alice and Jacob meet a strange woman named Devonne before they enter the home where Alice remembers back to some good memories in the house and it’s shown that Jacob as well can share her memories and asks who some of the people were, and she lectures her son to not do that as it’s rude to people to read their minds. Alice and Jacob head to the hospital to visit Yvonne Miller who is a nurse there and is one of Alice’s best friends as they faced Freddy together back in the day to save Jacob’s soul, but also in the room but in a coma is Dr. Neil Gordon who had a terrible car wreck after the death of Cybil Houch who just barely escaped a nightmare were Freddy was going to gut him on a hospital bed. Devonne picks up a hitchhiker at the side of the road and uses a hammer to bash his skull in, as she is doing so to please Freddy Krueger as she wants to have control over her dreams and offers her victim’s souls to him. Back home Alice puts Jacob to bed and she and Yvonne talk about all the stuff going on like preparing for her fathers funeral, selling the home, Jacob’s weird behavior, a serial killer going around town killing teenagers and Yvonne wonders if Jacob could use his powers to help find the killer. Devonne visits Freddy in the boiler room and asks if he is enjoying the soul food, but Freddy torments her for a moment and says her work is not done as he needs one more soul one of his choosing. Alice is having a dream about Dan her husband who passed away and it quickly turns into a nightmare as he becomes a twisted creature the merges with his motorcycle and Freddy appears to taunt her, but Jacob stops its really quick by blasting away Freddy and his monstrous father. As Alice falls into a deeper sleep Devonne shows up and she and Jacob leave the house and he tells her he wants to show her were his father is.

This issue takes us from Nancy Thompson to Alice Johnson as she finds herself as well once more at odds with the dream demon himself Freddy Krueger when she is forced to return to Springwood after her father passes away, but while in town as well she learns that a serial killer is on the loose targeting teenagers and killing them in brutal ways. Alice Johnson who is the Dream Master and has battled Freddy Krueger twice and won finds herself once more in Springwood and this will lead to her having to face him down once again! When you think of it poor Alice has had a very rough life in Springwood as she has lost her husband, brother and close friends to Freddy and now her father has passed away and her young son has freaky powers and is like a magnet for Freddy! Jacob Johnson is around five years old and is very strange as he is sort of psychic and can even see the memories of others, but be also has become a target of a serial killer who is working for Freddy Krueger that needs more souls to regain power. Yvonne Miller is one of Alice’s old friends who went through the Freddy stuff with her, she is still working in the medial field and is beside her while she is dealing with the death of her dad and even has an idea of using Jacob and his powers to help them find the serial killer that is stalking their home town. That serial killer is Devonne who goes around killing teenagers to send their souls to Freddy, and she also sees people are creepy skinless monsters and is doing all her bad deeds so that she can control her own dreams. We also find that Dr. Neil Gordon is in a coma at the hospital after having a very nasty car crash, and he is being tormented by Freddy and still also being protected by Nancy Thompson who saves him in his nightmares from the slasher…will he wake up and help Alice, only time will tell. It ends on a big cliffhanger as Devonne is leading Jacob to the cemetery as Alice is in a deep sleep after having a run in with Freddy. And the biggest most bloody moment in this issue has Devonne bashing a teens face in with a hammer. The cover is great and shows Freddy with a mirror and the interior art is done by Patrick Rolo and its good as its has that pure 90’s indie comic look. Over all another great issue that this time is focusing on the characters of “A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child” and we are getting to see Alice once more face Freddy with the fate of Jacob on the line again.

Nightmares On Elm Street # 4 ***
Released in 1992 Cover Price $2.50 Innovation # 4 of 6

Jacob and Devonne arrive at the cemetery and they head toward the grave of Dan who is the father of Jacob and as he pays his respects he also alerts her that he knows who she really is and that Freddy needs him and that she as well as family buried here and that she had a rough life thanks to her abusive father and enters her mind and learns that she blew up her old home as a kid to kill her family via a gas leak. Meanwhile Alice wakes up to find her son missing and calls the police to try and help find him and they are overwhelmed by all the killings as well as missing kids in town. Freddy enters the mind of Devonne and takes Jacob away and tells him that he needs his help and if he does so he will bring back his father Dan from the dead…and as father and son talk Freddy tells Devonne to kill Alice and Yvonne and she agrees to do so and returns to her van and grabs a Uzi as she wants to do the deed fast. Alice and Yvonne head out and decide that they need the help of Dr. Neil Gordon as well as Nancy Thompson who they know had battle Freddy in the past and is watching out for Gordon thanks to Jacob as they know that Freddy has something to do with his disappearance.

Jacob is able to visit the grave for his father for the first time and is able to speak to him as well cause of Freddy Krueger, but you also have to question is it really his father or one of Krueger ’s tricks to get the young kid to use his powers and help him. Jacob really showcases his weird powers here as he is able to get into the mind of the serial killer Devonne and learns that she was abused by he father who would beat her and that he as well as her mother were the first victims as she blew them up and set the ablaze when she was just a kid, and he is able to be so powerful that even Freddy Krueger wants him to be by his side in order to be more powerful in the nightmare world and beyond. And I would guess that Jacob knows that Freddy is lying to him and that more than likely he is not speaking to his real father. Alice here seems lost as she is a wreck and is very scared for the well being of her missing child. Freddy Krueger is clearly just using Devonne to do his dirty work by killing people in the real world to give him souls, and he will not give her the powers she is seeking, as she is clearly disposable to him. We also know why Devonne sees people as fleshy monsters, as that is the way her mother looked after the fire, and clearly this woman has some major mental issues. The cover is pretty cool and shows Jacob and Devonne hiding behind a tombstone as Freddy Krueger is stalking around behind them, and like before Patrick Rolo did the interior artwork and its solid as I have to praise the way he draws Freddy Krueger as well as all the strange things from his nightmare world boiler room. And as I have said before the creators behind this comic series show that they really cared about A Nightmare On Elm Street and put their all into making a creepy and great horror comic series for readers. So let’s see what terrors Freddy has in store for us in issue five.

Nightmares On Elm Street # 5 ***
Released in 1992 Cover Price $2.50 Innovation # 5 of 6

Freddy Krueger is bored with his limitations in Springwood and needs all the pieces of his twisted puzzle to come together so that he can be more powerful and they are Alice, Jacob and Devonne, but he also wants to have a final showdown with Nancy Thompson and travels through the Dream Demons door to taunt her. Dr. Neil Gordon wakes from his coma and Alice asks about her son as well as Nancy and he tells her that she needs to join him in the dream world to get Nancy’s help as he thinks that Jacob is around. Meanwhile Devonne has shown up to the hospital and shoots everyone at the front desk and then gets the location of Alice from a nurse before breaking her jaw with a claw hammer. Meanwhile as Dr. Gordon slips back into his coma Alice is injected with a sedative in order to join him in his dream by Yvonne who is worried about this as her friend will be once more in the reach of Freddy. In the nightmare world Alice ends up hurting her ankle and she and Dr. Gordon start their quest to get to the safety of Nancy, while Devonne is still rampaging around the hospital looking for Alice and is right outside the room having a shootout with a security guard as Yvonne tries to protect her friend Alice who is out cold, and as Devonne enters the room Yvonne has to shoot the crazed woman. Meanwhile in the nightmare world Freddy attacks and causes Alice, Dr. Gordon and Nancy who appears to be separated and so that he can get them all with his different taunting ways of killing as for Alice she becomes the character from the book Alice In Wonderland and starts chasing a Freddy Rabbit, Nancy is confronted by her father Lt. Don Thompson who is trapped in the Nightmare World and has to kill his daughter to be free and lastly Dr. Gordon is faced with the Dream Warriors all his former patients that died by Freddy’s glove under his care. Lastly as Jacob is playing on the playground with his father Dan he is told once more that if he helps Freddy break free of Springwood they can be back together as a family.

Freddy’s twisted plan is coming together as he has his enemies all in his nightmare world and each are in danger, as he is once more messing with the mind of young Jacob by having his dead father try and talk him into doing what Freddy wants as his main goal is to be ride of just being stuck in the nightmares of the people of Springwood as he would like to be able to slaughter teenagers around the world in their sleep. Alice is once more willing to go into this terrible nightmare world in order to save her son, and unknown to her she is not only in big trouble there but also in the real world as the town’s serial killer now armed with an Uzi is on her trail while she is in a sleep state. Devonne is crazed here to her by Freddy Krueger, but by the end she finds herself being shot twice and having a mental breakdown reliving the abuse conflicted on her by her father. And if not for Yvonne who is able to get a killed security guards gun and shoot the rampaging killer or hero Alice might be dead and Freddy’s plan could already be completed. The plot really does thicken here as all our heroes are in grave danger, Jacob is being pressured into making a decision that helps the dream killer be able to reach more victims and Freddy is sitting back with big ideas of killing on his mind. The issue has blood being spilt and one of the more gruesome attacks has Devonne busting a nurses jaw almost off with a hammer, and with Devonne we are not sure if she is going to live or not as being shot twice just might end her life and her quest to kill for Freddy.This is another top-notch amazing cover that shows our heroes hanging off the blades of Freddy’s glove as fire is all around. And yeah you know what I am going to say about the interior artwork done by Patrick Rolo is good, and I like the way he draws Freddy as well as the whole Nightmare World. One big thing that I have to point out here in this issue also is that it packs in a heck of a lot of characters from the film series as we get Alice Johnson, Nancy Thompson, Jacob Thompson, Yvonne Miller, Dan Jordan, Dr. Neil Gordon, Lt. Donald Thompson, The Dream Demons, Jennifer Caulfield, Roland Kincaid, Phillip Anderson, Taryn White and Will Stanton so I am sure fans of the series will be happy to see them as many of them had died in the films. Well the next issue is the final in the series, so let’s see how it comes to an end and if Alice and Nancy are finally able to stop Freddy and his quest to expand outside the town of Springwood.

Nightmares On Elm Street # 6 ***
Released in 1992 Cover Price $2.50 Innovation # 6 of 6

Jacob decides to help Freddy leave Springwood as well as the Dream World in general if he returns his father Dan back to life he also is going to make him promise not to hurt anyone else. Meanwhile Alice is being tormented in her Wonderland nightmare as he makes her dead friends like Greta Gibson and Sheila Kopecky appear and mock her for allowing them to die, while Nancy is shot by her father only to show him she is stronger now and is not killed by the bullet and promises to set him free and she does just that right before she finds the dream door that has the Dream Demons around it, Dr. Gordon also finds that The Dream Warriors are not their to hurt him as they want to help Jacob defeat Freddy, and they give him a stone to give to the young child that will help show him the truth. At Freddy’s boiler room home he meets with Devonne and the pair wait for Jacob who appears with Dan and is about to use his powers to bring Freddy to the real world when Nancy and Dr. Gordon show up to stop it, Freddy uses his powers to try and hold them back as Devonne also leaps into action attacking our heroes as Jacob pauses in his actions causing Freddy to have his mother Alice appear and threatens to kill her if he does not help, meanwhile he also has shadow people come out of the ground and attack Nancy, Dr. Gordon, Dan and Devonne who he alerts that he just used her and does not care what happens to her. In the end Jacob is able to use his powers to get himself as well as Alice and Dan back to the real world were the spirit of Dan is now inside the body of Dr. Gordon who died in a stand off with Freddy alongside Devonne who speared the dream time slasher when he was making himself look like a dragon and battling Nancy. While Alice and her family leave Springwood plus Dr. Gordon stays with Nancy in the dream world it appears Freddy is defeated for now.

Well this was it the final issue in the “Nightmares On Elm Street” mini series, and I have to say a few things before we get to deep into the review section with the first being that this series really held up for me and I truly wish that it had more issues or that even in these modern times someone would hire writer Andy Mangels to do another series based on Freddy Krueger as I really did like how he was able to bring in characters from the film series, it makes you wonder if he had more issues for Innovation Comics if characters like Jesse Walsh & Lisa Webber from “A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge” would have shown up. In this issue Freddy Krueger is so close to be able to escape Springwood as well as the nightmare world thanks to trying to trick Jacob into using his powers to make it happed, but Freddy was not ready for the fight that was coming his way as Nancy Thompson, Dr. Gordon, Alice and even serial killer Devonne are fighting back and with the help of a stone that was given to them by The Dream Warriors they are able to shows Jacob the true evil side of Freddy and the youngster is able to get his family out of danger and back in the real world as Freddy is once more defeated. Freddy throughout this series shows that he is just a evil person who loves killing as well as making people fearful as he stalks them in their dreams as well as is sending out a serial killer to commit brutal slayings for him. While Freddy is very powerful it’s clear he bit off way more than he can chew when he messed with Nancy Thompson, Alice Johnson and Dr. Neil Gordon all at the same time as they are able to team up and bring him down. Nancy herself is now gaining more and more powers in the Dream World as she is the keeper of pleasant ones making her withstand attacks as well as have the power to free people from Freddy’s Nightmare World. Dr. Gordon just wants to be with Nancy as well as stop Freddy and he is able to do both as he even gives his body over to the spirit of Dan Jordan so the killed father can be with his wife and child in the real world. The Dream Warriors are still heroes here as they are learning their powers and are wanting to help fight the fight against Freddy once they can figure out how to break free from their own dream world, they also play a big part in defeating Freddy as they are one ones who give the stone to Dr. Gordon that Jacob uses. I do have to say one weird thing is that the character of Roland Kincaid can turn into a panther here. I think this mini series does a pretty great job of staying true to the films its based on with the only thing sort of lacking being that Freddy does not deliver a lot of his cheesy wisecracks. The series does have its share of blood being spilt and deaths taking place as even the serial killer is shot and killed and pays the price for trusting Freddy. When it comes to the cover for this sixth and final issue it’s pretty great as on the cover has Freddy busting through a map of Ohio, and the village I grew up in is shown on the map! So that always made it stand out to me, and fans of Freddy will also find it eye catching. The interior artwork by Patrick Rolo here is sort of a mix bag as some of it in panels comes off a little rushed, while other panels are detailed and well done, but you could tell he was having fun in this issue drawing Freddy as a Dragon even. This comic mini series really did hold up for me and I enjoyed them in 2025 when I read them again just as much as I did when I was a youngster when I first read them, and I think that if you are a fan of the A Nightmare On Elm Street films, you should track down these issues and give them a read as they add more nightmare stalking adventures for Freddy Krueger as well as showed what happened to many of the characters from the film series as well. Take a look at the artwork below to see some of the styles used in this series.

When it comes to horror movie series that started in the 1980’s you would have to say that A Nightmare On Elm Street is at the top of the all time best list maybe only rivaled by Friday The 13^th, plus let’s be honest Freddy is one of the most iconic villains in modern horror as people of all ages know who he is and merchandise is still being made of him to this day. And I should say also that I really do hope that one day Freddy will return to the world of comic books as there is lots of Nightmarish stories that could be told in the pages of a comic series. Well our time on Elm Street is coming to an end but our time with horror comics based on horror films will continue in our next update as we will be taking a look at the 1922 silent horror film Nosferatu and the comic adaptation of the film that was published by Tome Press. So until next time, read a horror comic or three, watch a horror movie or two and as always support your local Horror Host. Well our next update also kicks off October 2026 and what better way to do so then to spend some time with Count Orlok!

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Posted on February 12, 2013 by bloodlinematt

Welcome back boils and ghouls as we continue my look at horror films that should be made into video games for PS3, Xbox 360 and even the WII. Yeah, I know that the next gen systems are coming very soon, but these titles could carry over onto, say, a PS4. Working at a second hand video game store has given me the chance to buy and play many different systems, and one that I have found to be a fun 8-bit experience that has many horror themed games is the Commodore 64 (C64). While mostly known for being a computer and really is nothing more then a keyboard that you buy floppy disk and datasette drives for, it’s a surprise in the gaming department. This system has games based on the films Friday The 13^th, A Nightmare of Elm Street, Psycho, Nightbreed, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Evil Dead and even cartoon vampire duck Count Duckula! It also had games based on Dracula, ghosts, Frankenstein, Bigfoot and Werewolves, not to mention horror hostess Elvira Mistress of the Dark had two games based around her. While the NES also had games based on Friday and Nightmare, the C64 versions are way different giving gamers a little more to play, and best of all the controls for this gaming computer are just like the Atari 2600 joystick. In fact you can plug in and use a 2600 joystick. The wonders of classic gaming is something I hold near and dear. If you would like to read up on some of my thoughts on these video games, you should read my reviews over at www.bloodlinevideo.com for both games and movies.

So without me blabbing on some more about my love of survival horror games, classic gaming and my website, let’s just get right into the list starting with number 10.

# 10.) The Wolf Man

Larry Talbot is a man who comes from a well to do family. When returning home, he falls in love with a shopkeeper’s daughter who is set to be married. Larry charms the young woman and gets her to go out with him to a local gypsy carnival of sorts. While out on this date, he is attacked by a werewolf who passes the full moon curse onto him. Larry struggles with his new curse, and the fact he is responsible for the deaths of many locals. This causes him to have a death wish and by the end of the original film, he meets his end by a silver cane wielded by the woman he loves. But you can’t keep a good monster down as Larry would return in many more films trying to find a way to be cured and also doing battles with Frankenstein’s Monster, crazy scientists, Count Dracula and even Bud Abbot and Lou Costello. Like the Phantom of the Opera, this is a perfect game for a company like TellTale Games to snatch up and turn into a solid, fun point and click spooky horror adventure. Imagine playing as Larry Talbot during the day trying to right the wrongs you have done the night before during the full moon as The Wolf Man! The ultimate goal is to find a cure or even find peace in death; all these decisions would be up to you the player and your actions would determine what course the game would take. Lon Chaney Jr. who played The Wolf Man’s son Ron Chaney should also do a voice in this game, adding to the over all feel. I for one would flip out for a game like this and would support a whole line based on Universal Monster Movies! And really this is one of my top five favorite movies of all time, and while the sequels don’t have as much impact as the first, they also are amazing watches during the cold month of October.

While a company has made a free to play internet MMO of The Universal Monsters, the Wolf Man has had some what of a presence in the world of video games. In 1988, a text based game was released for the Commodore 64 and while the name of the game is WolfMan, it’s not a Universal sponsored product and in no way ties into the Larry Talbot myth, but sure did try and cash in on it. The only other game I can think of is a Handheld game made by Tiger sometime in the mid to late 90’s. While the moon still gets full and the game systems around the world fire up, maybe one day we will all be able to howl with fear and play a true console game based on this iconic character.

# 9.) Pumpkinhead

When you have felt that you have been wronged and what has happened is truly something you want unforgiven revenge for, there is an old witch that lives in a rundown cabin in the woods that can help, but her help comes with a price as Ed Harley found out when a group of city teens accidentally kill his son with a dirt bike. The revenge is a demon called Pumpkinhead who will murder all those who are on your hit list, and the price is your soul! Now imagine a game developer like Rock Steady getting to work on a game like this, and how epic and scary and deep the plot would be. I see this as a game that you play as two characters, one being the poor fool who summoned Pumkinhead and the other being one of the poor saps he’s after. In the end you must choose who is right in this situation and and this will effect the outcome of the game. All the while during this plot you are running for your life away from the revenge demon and watching as your friends are being brutally killed. Plus for the fun of it, you can add in the spirits of those who summoned this monster in the past to haunt and warn the player of the dangers, giving the game the freedom to tie it into the film series and a way to have Lance Hendricson (Ed Harley) in it. To me once again this movie has all the right tools to become a video game series if done right.

Pumpkinhead has had one shot at the video game market when the second film “Pumpkinhead 2: Blood Wings” was released in 1994, and it got the PC Game treatment with a game called “Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead’s Revenge” a year later. The game is a first person shooter that used clips from the film and was looked at as a rushed mess with no direction and no real scary moments by almost all gamers. But with this bomb of a game way in our past, I truly think Pumpkinhead should rise once more and show us all just how scary he can be!

# 8.) Return of the Living Dead

Two medical supply workers accidentally open a military drum filled with a toxin that turns the dead into brain eating zombies. A group of punk rock teens, a mortician, the two workers (who are now very ill) and the medical supply warehouse boss must fight to stay alive as the dead just keep on coming up from the nearby cemetery. Zombie video games are super popular, and while some would say they are flooding the market, they are still selling well and gamers seem to not get enough of the gut munchers. That’s why taking something like Return of the Living Dead and turning it into a gaming franchise is a no brainer. This could easily become a series of games that could give House of the Dead, Dead Island and even Resident Evil a run for their money by adding in the punk rock feel of the films and score music lifted straight from the movie. Imagine this as the plot of a Return of the Living Dead game that plays like a updated version of Resident Evil in which you play as a punk rocker teen who alongside friends have been caught in the acid rain. You see, you are friends of the punk rockers from the first film and must fight to stay alive using what ever you can find to fight off the undead. The game could be multiplayer so friends can join in the game of survival. Add in cameos from characters from the first film and of course have the famous Tar Man Zombie be a boss fight, and you have the making of a great classic movie tie in game. This could then lead into games that tie in the second film and then onto the third and so on, even though parts 4 and 5 are terrible. Game companies that I would love to see tackle this game include Rock Star, Capcom, Konami and WB Games. Only time will tell if some game company decides to take the chance on this amazing IP.

# 7.) Creature From The Black Lagoon

The Creature is considered by many as Universal’s last great horror monster icon and has three solid films behind him making the video game world a perfect outlet to continue his legacy. A group of scientist go to the lagoons of the Amazon rain forest and come across a human like fish man dubbed “The Gill-Man” who has taken a liking to the female of the team. When he kidnaps her, it’s up to the crew to get her back but not before our fiendish fish man kills as few humans off. The creature in his film appearances has also been captured and put on display at an aquarium and last time we saw him, he had been turned more human like, wanted to set lots of fires and is believed to have drowned after his escape. This is where our game should begin and would show that the Creature has survived and in fact has hid out and healed to become his former scaly self. The game would have a family lost on a fishing trip in the back waters of the Evergreens in Florida. To the families, surprise they have also caught the eyes of Gill-Man who has set his eyes on their college aged daughter. As the father, you must survive the horrors of the swamp and the terrors of the Creature in order to get your daughter back. This one again would and should be made by TellTale Games and showcase the Universal Monster in a great episodic survival horror adventure. I also feel that the character and his whole story could make for a very solid and fun game that would sure to please classic horror flick fans, kids and even most survival horror fans. This is another game I would order the moment it was announced! And with a re-make of the film in the works, we might just get this!

The Gill-Man has made it to the video arcades back in 1993 when Bally made a pinball machine based on the Creature From The Black Lagoon that was complete with a hologram creature that would appear in the game’s lagoon. This is one of my favorite pinball machines, and I can remember going to a local arcade called “Krazy Kats” and playing this machine a lot in my youth. This is truly a retro machine that I would love to own and put into my place of work to let a whole new generation enjoy. If you get the chance you should check it out and give it a play. It combines a classic Universal Monster, Drive-In Theater and Pinball, what more could a horror kid ask for.

# 6.) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Leatherface alongside his brothers W.E, Choptop and Hitchhiker Sawyer with their ancient Grandpa are a sick family that come from the slaughterhouse industry who are way to much into the meat business as they kill humans and use them for dinner. W.E is the brains of the family and not only does he run a small gas station, he also travels around selling the human meat products to hungry football fans. Leatherface is the dumb brute who acts as the butcher, Chop Top is a vet with a metal plate in his head who is as blood thirsty as a psycho gets as the Hitchhiker is just bat shit crazy. Many have died and only few have survived. Now imagine a game where you must survive the Sawyer family’s attack as you are alone and stranded by their infamous farmhouse. The plot would have you, a young man driving through Texas to get to Mexico to meet up with friends on vacation when you have an accident that leaves your car totaled and your spirt low. Things get worse when Leatherface comes calling, and you must run and fight for your life. I see this playing like Clock Tower 3 but with more of a chance to fight back. Another feature would be if Leatherface hits you with his chainsaw your injury stays with you through out the game. So say he cuts one of your hands off, you are stuck with no hand for the rest of the game. Throw in some other characters for kills and you have yourself a video game bloodbath waiting to happen. The game would be filled with strong violence and be set in the late 70’s or early 80’s making room for follow up games. Not to mention this game could go many different routes, it could follow the 1974 series that had 4 films or even the 2003 reboot series that had 2 films. This is just a rough idea for this game and with more sequels to this franchise in the works, it only makes sense that it should get the game treatment. Companies who should make this game include Konami, THQ, Activision and WB Games. Only time will tell if a game company ever will gas up the old chainsaw again and give us survival horror fans a real classic Texas treat.

Sadly Leatherface has made it to home consoles thanks to Wizard Video Games. In 1982 they brought a pixelated mess of a game to Atari 2600 that had you playing as Leatherface chasing girls down in a field and cutting them up with his chainsaw. The goal is to kill as many girls as you can before the gas that powers your saw runs out. When your turn’s over, a woman runs up and kicks you in the butt! What a shameful only game for a horror icon to have.

# 5.) Friday The 13^th

Camp Crystal Lake has a death curse surrounding it that took hold when a young deformed boy named Jason Voorhees was thought to have drowned in the lake and a pair of counselors were murdered. Jason’s mother Pamela went crazy and killed some teens that were there to reopen the site many years later, and she met her end when she was beheaded by one of her would-be victims. But to everyone’s displeasure Jason didn’t drown, and now is an unstoppable killer who hacks and slashes his way to avenge his mother’s death and to keep all away from his home. Jason has had 11 films that followed each other and a 2009 remake of the original. This lends itself to be made into a video game for this generation’s systems, and in fact lots of fans of both the films and video games have been waiting for some company to be a hero and make one. This one could take three routes and give the player the choice of playing as a camper who has become the target of Jason, play as Tommy Jarvis who has battled Jason in a total of three films or as Jason himself giving the game replay value. All three would tie in at the end giving the game a closing. The camper story line would have you trying to get teens out of the camp before they become worm food thanks to Jason’s weapons of death. Along the way, you must battle the wilds and traps the killer has set, not to mention a copycat killer who is also lurking in the woods. Tommy’s story line would have you tracking down Jason and coming across the government who is there to take Jason away as if he is some sort of super solider weapon. This gives you plenty of action as you must fight them off while Jason is attacking. And Jason’s story would simply be kill. Kill all the teens, kills the agents, kill Tommy, Kill the camper and kill the fake you! In the end it all comes together for an epic end battle. Again, this is just an idea, and I am sure game makers could make an idea that is way better and give us all a good scary gore filled game. Companies that should tackle this one would be WB Games, RockStar, Konami or Capcom. It’s a shame that we have not gotten this game yet, and I hope one day a game company will listen to what the fans want.

To be fair, Friday The 13^th has made it to home consoles twice, but both game are considered bad. The first is for the Commodore 64 made by Domark and came out in 1985. It has Jason almost being a bodysnatcher who is hiding in the body of a fellow person, and you must find out by clues who it is and kill the one you think is the killer. Then in 1989, LJN made a game for the NES that had you playing as camp counselors trying to save kids from a rampaging Jason who would just appear and attack the kids in cabins and you on paths. While the Commodore 64 version is kind of lame and lackluster, the Nes one, while a bad game, is super fun and I kind of enjoy it. Not to mention a few Homebrew games have been made for the Atari 2600 by Salem Frost Games based on parts 2 and 3. With many years removed from these titles, one would hope the hockey mask killer will return to stalk home consoles soon.

# 4.) A Nightmare on Elm Street

Freddy Krueger is a razor clawed glove wearing, child killing, dream stalking bastard son of a 1000 maniacs who has tormented and killed many teens. Freddy when human was killed by vigilantes for crimes against children and during this he was burned alive and making his spirit haunt and kill the children of those who killed him, making the youths pay for the sins of their parents. Many have tried to stop Freddy and all mostly have lost their lives. The only one who has been able to beat him twice and live is Alice, a young woman who can bring people into her dreams and take the powers of friends who have passed. Now think about this, Freddy has a total of 8 films and 1 remake he has appeared in, and is one of the most well known horror icons of the slasher years. Now imagine a game where you must fight Freddy in our world and in the dream world and how mant crazy levels could be made, not to mention places from the films like the junkyard, high school and Nancy’s house all thrown in for a nice touch. I see you playing as a young woman who has lost most of her friends to Freddy Kruger while they sleep one night. When he comes for you, it’s discovered that you have the power to fight him off, and now the war is own as Freddy uses your friends and fears as pawns in order to break you down and steal your soul. This is a film that lends itself to being a very visual game and the possibilities of levels and bad guys are endless, not to mention Freddy can take on many different forms. It makes no sense why WB Games, whose parent company owns the rights to Freddy, would not make a game based on the burnt dream slasher. Here’s hoping that WB finally opens their eyes and sees that this film series would make a perfect game series and that fans would love to step into a nightmare and battle Freddy. And of course Robert England would have to voice Freddy ’cause no one else should!

Freddy Kruger is no stranger to the video game world and has made a few appearances in some such as 1989’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street” by Monarch for the Commodore 64 that has characters from the third film and has you trying to save Joey from his evil clutches. A year later, LJN released a game of the same title that was a 4 player side scroller that had you fighting monsters and Freddy in order to gather Kruger’s bones to burn them and put him to rest. In 1994 a pinball machine based around Freddy was released to arcades. Then in 2011, Freddy Kruger based on the remake look was a downloadable fighter for the newest Mortal Kombat game. So as you can see, Freddy is ready for an all new full game!

# 3.) Frankenstein

Henry Frankenstein and his assistant Fritz have built a “man” that is looked at as a monster who has super human strength, fears fire and has the hatred of all the villagers coming down on his patched together body. Henry at first stands by his creation but quickly turns when the monster gets loose and goes on a rampage. The Monster in this film series has been burned, blown up, sank in quicksand, fought the Wolf Man, had his brain switched, fallen in hot molten sulfur, been frozen and even had a Bride who wanted nothing to do with him! The Frankenstein Monster is the first classic horror monster to have a long running series that totals 8 films, and this is something Universal should be very proud of. Once more this is a great chance to get sequels made for these classic films in the way of a video game, and once more TellTale Games should be the ones to tackle it. In fact this is a game that I would love to make and have spoken to a few people about maybe getting this ball rolling on getting one made. So if anyone at TellTale is reading this, contact me! The beauty of these classic monster games is that you can make the ratings E or T and make them scary and fun for all ages. Plus the Universal Frankenstein lore is so rich and has so many amazing characters that a company could turn out a few games based on this IP. Imagine a game where the player is in control of both Dr. Frankenstein and his Monster and some other familiar faces show up like the Bride and Ygor. The plot I have in mind would be an epic spooky tale that would sure to please gaming and film fans!

Frankenstein’s Monster sure is not a stranger to the video game world, and his image has been used in many games from NES’s “Castlevania” to Atari 2600’s “Frankenstein’s Monster” but very few have been based on the Universal Monster license. Once more a quick cash-in text-based game for the Commodore 64 called “Frankenstein” was released by CRL in 1987, but once more had no real ties to the Universal film. Some time in the 90’s Tiger Electronics released a handheld game based around The Monster, and in 1998 Williams released a pinball game called “Monster Bash” to arcades that featured all of the Universal Monsters in a rock band. In 2012 a free to play online MMO called “Universal Monsters Online” was released, and while a cool concept, the character designs are generic. So here is hoping that some stormy night lightning strikes, and Frankenstein’s Monster comes alive on our PS3 systems.

# 2.) Hellraiser

A puzzle box holds the secrets of both pleasure and pain but knowing this information comes with a terrible price if you solve the box’s riddle: the cenobites! Led by Pinhead, the cenobites will torture and kill you and damn your soul to a hell like limbo where you will forever face your own private hell. The cenobites’ world is a giant maze, and their god is Leviathan. Only one man has ever escaped them and that was Frank Cotton who in turn brought this nightmare onto his brother’s family, specifically his niece Kristy who in turn is the first human to defeat the cenobites. Like A Nightmare on Elm Street, this is a perfect fit for the video game world and has so many characters and possibilities that could make this game a creepy experience. Even though, I am not a full fan of this genre this would be a cool first person shooter and could tap into the creepy atmosphere of the maze-like Hell and deliver scares like the F.E.A.R. series or even Doom 3. The plot could have you opening the box by mistake and being sent to Hell. You must use the Puzzle box to fight off Cenobites and other worldly creatures in order to get back to life as you once knew it. Pinhead would be the final boss, and it would be cool if through out the game he taunts and sets you up making you think you have won at many different moments. This could also be made into an amazing third person game and take all the great elements that make a game like Silent Hill work and add them into a game were you must travel to the Cenobites world in order to save your loved one from the hell they have made for themselves as they were dumb enough to open the box. Imagine creeping around the maze like world and running into Chatter. Once you save them and return to our world that game doesn’t end and Pinhead and his crew come to claim whats theirs in what could be an epic final boss battle in a game! The game makers should allow Clive Barker, the master mind behind this story, to write the script and of course have Doug Bradley voice Pinhead. It should include all the classic Cenobites from the first two films (Female, Chatter and Butterball). Hellraiser has a total of 8 sequels and a remake is being planed showing this series does have a good following even if some of the sequels were direct to DVD stinkers. With the Weinstein Company opening TWC Games in 2011 this game could one day become a reality and while I don’t think it will make it for the PS3 life cycle I do have faith that the PS4 will. They make the game, and we would play!

Hellraiser is no stranger to the video game world but almost seems to be a cursed IP with games based around it never seeming to see the light of day. In 1990 Color Dreams (a unlicensed game maker) attempted to make a Hellraiser game for the NES, it was set to be you in a maze fighting monsters but sadly the plug was pulled when they realized Nintendo was on a rampage, running these rogue game companies out of store shelves and that the cost to make this game was becoming to high. You see, they designed a better cart with better chips to make the game bigger and better. Even Color Dreams PC version was ditched and ended up at the pixel graveyard. Also sometime in the 90’s, a rumor was going around that Konami, the fine folks who brought us Metal Gear, Silent Hill, Castlevania and Saw, were developing a game for the original Sony Playstation, Once more cost kept this game from seeing the light of a TV Screen. This game would have had you collecting charms from Cenobites. And then in 1996 Magnet Interactive was working on a game called Hellraiser: Virtual Hell that was a first person shooter that had the player solving puzzles and fighting off cenobites and other creatures. Doug Bradley was in this game as they filmed him for cut scenes during breaks of filming Hellraiser: Bloodlines. This game was scraped due to a terrible game engine and the lack of faith and effort given to the project from the company. The only game that did make it somewhat to home consoles is a home brew Atari 2600 game called Helloween that combines Hellraiser and Halloween,and is really more of a Pitfall clone. So sadly there were many games planned, and none of the official ones ended up in gamers’ hands. So here is hoping a company will come through and make a scary, chilling and gross game based around Pinhead.

So here we are at the # 1 spot, and I have chosen everything from silent horror icons, Universal Classics to slashers and zombies and each of these I truly think would make amazing games. That’s the one thing about video games nowadays, they seem to not want to take a chance and they only seem to want to stick with things that have been done and rehash sequels and recycle the game over and over. I mean do we really need a new Call of Duty or Madden every year? But with this said let’s go onto the # 1 Horror Film that I think should be made into a video game.

# 1.) Halloween

Michael Myers killed his older sister at a young age and had spent most of his youth in a mental asylum where he shut down and never spoke. His doctor, Sam Loomis, sees that the young man no longer has emotions and had turned into a nothing more than a ticking time bomb. Many years pass and now an adult Myers has escaped and is on a murderous path toward his hometown of Handenfield, Illinois targeting teen girls and more importantly his baby sister who was adopted. Michael Myers has returned in 6 sequels and has had a remake that also spawned a sequel and is one of the most popular slasher icons of the silver screen. While at first he was just a sick and twisted human, he later became a undying killing machine. This film is perfect for a video game and has so many great levels and backgrounds that can be used from the mental asylum to the run down Myers house, each spooky in their own way. Imagine playing a level in the basement of the Myers house and all you have is a flashlight and that white mask of Michael comes popping out of the darkness, you know you would scream. When I was a teenager I even wrote a Halloween game that I wanted to make for the Sony Playstation with the help of Konami. The idea I had then I think still works now as you play as Dr. Loomis who must stop Michael Myers’ rampage that has him targeting a young woman once more on Halloween night. It would take you all over the town and famous sites like the Myers home, the asylum and the high school. The goal is to set traps and fend Michael off until you can get the girl to safety and if she dies, the game is over. This was just the old idea of a teenage boy; imagine the epic game we could get if Capcom, RockStar or even TellTale put some AAA game writers on it. This is a game I truly hope makes it into my game library so that I can enjoy the chills late night in the TV’s glow.

Wizard Video struck again in 1983 when they released Halloween for the Atari 2600 and had gamers play as a babysitter of tons of kids in a huge house. You must guide the kids away from Michael Myers. The film’s theme plays in 8-bit glory every time Michael shows up. Halloween had to have been the most bloody and violent game released at the time and depicts decapitations and murder of young children both complete with pixelated blood. But much like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the game was a bomb and was not showcased at retail stores causing poor sales. And for years gamers have asked for a new game based on this series that has yet to be made. With TWC Games still open, one could only hope that we will get one in the future. And I should say that while the Atari 2600 game was by no means great, I still have a blast playing it.

So there you have it, 21 horror films that I think should be made into a video game for current generation home consoles. Survival Horror and and plain horror themed games have been a staple in the industry, and while I feel they don’t get the push and quantity they deserve on home console, it seems the PC Gaming world gets plenty. One of the best ones has to be the free to play slasher fighting game called Terrordrome. Imagine a game that allows you to fight as Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers or Freddy Kruger and beat up the likes of Candyman, Manaic Cop or Ash! Sadly this game came under attack from companies like Warner Brothers and now it’s in limbo.

Survial Horror will forever live on, and I hope someone in the gaming industry is reading this and takes a chance on one of these IPs so that the fans are finally able to play the blood chilling horror game of one of our favorite horror icons. Next update we go back to the world of comics as we take a look at Marvels Saga of Crystar series.