Freddy Krueger? Pah!
90 wordsPolls are always useful on slow news days. The Guardian certainly seems to have snapped up a press release from Yahoo about a poll which places A Nightmare on Elm Street as the scariest film ever.
I never rated A Nightmare on Elm Street very much — it didn’t scare me, its central logic made little sense to me.
This poll was from a sample of 1,000. Who knows where they got those 1,000 from: it looks like a list of “horror films people have heard of” rather than really scary ones.