8. A Nightmare On Elm Street 4 - The Dream Master (1988)
Admittedly, Nightmare On Elm Street 4 isnt the worst entry of the series but it is the moment where the franchise turned into a punch line. It turned Freddy Krueger from a genuinely scary slasher into a jokester. The original Elm street is a horror masterpiece, Part 2 was..different and Dream Warriors is arguably one of the best horror movie sequels ever; then we got The Dream Master. As a kid you were a fan of Freddy Krueger. If you enjoyed one NOES you subsequently enjoyed them all. The character was bigger than the movies he was featured in. You dressed as Freddy as Halloween and even owned that god-awful video game. As an adult, you may not think this is the worst movie ever but youve come to appreciate the uniqueness of the original film. You now understand that the franchise was on a downward spiral after that first film concluding with Freddys Dead: The Final Nightmare. It's pretty funny to think that at the release of this film fans were claiming that the movies were just getting better and better.