10 Everyday Things Horror Movies Have Made Terrifying

Horror movies can sometimes make people have trouble sleeping, but usually a good night's rest is just what someone needs when they feel a little anxious. Nightmare On Elm Street though changed that forever with the creation of the icon of eighties horror, Freddy Krueger, who hunts and kills his victims entirely in their dreams.

In terms of dying, there is usually a limit to how gruesome it can get, with killers being limited by the constraints of the physical world. What makes Freddy even more terrifying is that he isn't bound by these constraints and can construct torturous kills that can get as horrific as the imagination allows them. Whether it's puppeteering someone by their veins or fusing a body with a motorcycle, nothing was off the table.

Someone can have a bad dream about getting chased by Michael Meyers or Leather Face and wake up assuring themselves that whatever happened was just a dream, but because Freddy exists in dreams, the horror really begins once the person wakes up and begins to suspect that they're going to be another name on Freddy's laundry list of victims.

At the end of the day though, it's all just a dream, and that's why it's so frightful.