Heather Langenkamp and Eli Roth toasted the beloved “Nightmare on Elm Street” actor at his Walk of Fame induction ceremony.

Freddy Krueger actor Robert Englund is now haunting a new street with Hollywood star: ‘Trick or f‑‑‑ing treat’

Heather Langenkamp and Eli Roth toasted the beloved "Nightmare on Elm Street" actor at his Walk of Fame induction ceremony.

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October 31, 2025 8:39 p.m. ET

Robert Englund gets his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Credit:

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He's way beyond Elm Street now.

Robert Englund, the actor known for chillingly portraying the razor-gloved bad guy Freddy Krueger in the *Nightmare on Elm Street* movies, found a new home Friday when he was inducted onto the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He accepted the 2,826th star from the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.

The crowd chanted "Freddy!" as Englund took the mic at the perfectly timed ceremony. He thanked those who'd helped him over his 50-year career, which has also included appearances on TV's *Stranger Things* and *The Goldbergs*, as well as movies such as *Urban Legend*.

Appropriately for Halloween, Englund ended his acceptance speech with a hearty "Trick or f‑‑‑ing treat!"**

Fans dressed as Freddy Krueger at Robert Englund's Hollywood Walk of Fame induction ceremony.

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Heather Langenkamp, who played protagonist Nancy Thompson in several of the *Elm Street *movies, was one of the speakers. And she lauded the classically trained actor's professionalism.

She said Englund was "always rehearsing until they rolled the camera. He would work on his right shoulder dipping a little lower than his left. The glove, always ready to slash you at a given moment."

The first time she saw Englund in costume as the villainous Freddy was "terrifying," Langenkamp recalled. "The take goes along and Robert Englund raises his glove, and he says, 'This is God.' It was blasphemous. It was hideous. It was so evil. It sent chills up every spine in that back alley, and, for the first time, I realized, 'holy s‑‑‑, I'm in a slasher movie.'"

The actress said Englund has made left a mark on his genre that even a century from now, audiences will be familiar with his work.

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She also quoted one of Freddy's signature lines: "Welcome to prime time, bitches!"

Along with Langenkamp, director Eli Roth, who worked with Englund on the 2005 horror comedy *2001 Maniacs*, took the mic and noted that spending All Hallow's Eve with Englund was perfect.

He lauded the actor as "a man who truly understands how to find the humanity, even in a monster."

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Roth said Freddy is the character kids always name when you ask them to think of horror icons.

"Freddy is always first!" he insisted. "Always. That is no accident. Freddy Krueger was the first time a killer in a slasher movie spoke. Up until then, slashers were silent assassins or a breather. Avatars for the unstoppable force of death. But Robert made death fun! Just so f‑‑‑ing fun."

Watch Englund's full induction ceremony above.

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