Reviews

Hollywood Monster: A Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams by Robert Englund

ladiicatherine's review against another edition

3.0

It was definitely interesting learning about Robert Englund and his career. I learned a lot of things that I didn't know before regarding his time spent playing Freddy Krueger. I enjoyed hearing about his early career and how he became an actor. Those are aspects of his career that I didn't know about. However, I feel myself just wanting to know more about him, to know all the details, and devour them. I've always been a pretty loyal, big fan to Mr. Englund and I just wanted this to be a bigger autobiography with the good and the bad laid out before me. I wanted more pictures, more stories, more insights into what being an actor means to him, etc. However, if you want to know more about the man behind everyone's favorite monster, this is a really good place to start!

amber_reads's review against another edition

4.0

Robert Englund is probably my favorite character actor. But beyond being Freddy Krueger and a few small roles in horror films I didn't know much about him. I was pleased to read about how he ended up in films and his early days of being on the stage. I think so often we look at character actors as one note people but this shows that Englund embraced the fact that he will always be Freddy to a contingent of the population. (Also, because we were too young to appreciate 'V') I'm sure that plenty of things about his life/career that were held back from the pages but what we were given satiated. And we got a few neat lists including his favorite Freddy quotes.
This book goes on the shelf next to Gunnar Hansen's memoir about filming "Texas Chain Saw Massacre."

kellyhager's review against another edition

3.0

Incredibly fun--mostly about his work in horror movies, and most of that is about the Elm Street series. So if you like Freddy Krueger, you'll probably enjoy this book. I did. :)