10 Most Nightmarish Horror Movie Monsters

10. Freddy Krueger - A Nightmare On Elm Street

The hat, the knives, the stripy jumper. In a word - iconic. No discussion of nightmarish horror movie monsters would be complete without mention of Freddy Krueger - the literal nightmare demon of A Nightmare on Elm Street.

The most human of the monsters on this list, Fred was a man once - a very bad man, burned to death by a mob of angry parents desperate for justice after the child-murderer walked free from court, thanks to a silly technicality. One molotov cocktail later, and we have Freddy Krueger, man of your dreams.

Freddy may have grown increasingly silly as the sequels went on, but Wes Craven and Robert Englund's iconic creation is one of the most iconic horror movie monsters of all time. No amount of rap CDs, Simpsons spoofs, underwhelming television series and crappy remakes can diminish Freddy's raw power, a horror movie monster for the ages.