This Halloween is going to be a very special Halloween, as horror legend Robert Englund finally gets his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Halloween Day, Friday, October 31.
The celebration of Englund’s career looks to be taking place 10-31-25 at 11am.
Englund had tweeted when the news was first announced last year, “Woke up this morning to discover I’m in great company in the Hollywood Walk of Fame class of 2025. Just to hear my name mentioned alongside Jane Fonda and Prince makes my old heart go pit-a-pat!”
In a new chat with fellow actor Katee Sackhoff that you can listen to in full below (I highly recommend you do), Englund talks a little bit further about the honor he’s about to receive – and why he’s particularly excited to get his Walk of Fame star on Halloween.
“I have a lot of little awards over the years, and I’ve been nominated once or twice for an Emmy way back. So I’m not a stranger to that, but it was never in my fantasies,” Englund admits. “I thought, maybe. When I first started out in Hollywood, I really wanted to be Strother Martin or Warren Oates. One of the great character actors you’d see in a Sam Peckinpah movie. That was sort of who I thought I was going to be for a while. Maybe I’ll be in Westerns, and make this work for myself.”
Englund continues, “Then I found myself playing best friends and sidekicks, but I could see myself aging out of those. And so I always saw myself in this sort of featured supporting role. My only fantasy was, maybe I’d get nominated for a supporting role.”
Of course, Englund found himself becoming an iconic leading man as Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, with his post-Elm Street career further establishing Englund as one of the great actors to ever work within the genre space. This Halloween, he finally joins the likes of Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, and Bela Lugosi on the Walk of Fame.
Englund also joins John Carpenter on the Walk of Fame, with Carpenter getting his star earlier this year. Englund reveals in his conversation with Katee Sackhoff that he and Carpenter discussed which one would get their star on Halloween; Carpenter opted for this past April instead. That left Halloween open for Englund, who felt his fans would appreciate the timing.
“This is a little way of me kind of blowing a kiss to [the fans]. That’s sort of why I chose it,” Englund notes. “One of my dear old friends, back to the Roger Corman days, Rhet Topham, wrote the little cult film Trick or Treat. With Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne. He’s been a big supporter of me getting a star. So It’s going to be fun because I can drop his name at the ceremony and say, by the way, you should check out Trick or Treat, because it’s Halloween! So I have a great connection there… a kind of segue into something that connects to the holiday.”
If you want to learn more about Robert Englund’s incredible career both inside and outside the horror genre, the SCREAMBOX Original documentary Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story is now streaming on SCREAMBOX. It’s also available on Blu-ray.
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