Here’s How Robert Englund Landed His Stranger Things Role

Spoilers for “Stranger Things” 4 follow.Horror fans were thrilled to hear that Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund, would appear in “Stranger Things” season 4.

Be warned that there are spoilers ahead for the first seven episodes of the current season.

Englund is royalty in the horror world, and with the nods to classic films of the 1980s, including a reference to the boiler room in the film “A Nightmare on Elm Street” in the actual dialogue, it’s sort of perfect.

What better homage could you pay to an ’80s touchstone than to cast him in the series? What’s really fun is how exactly Englund got the role…The post Here’s How Robert Englund Landed His Stranger Things Role appeared first on /Film.

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