It was too much like a horror movie, even by Hollywood standards.

A man dressed as horror movie villain Freddy Krueger has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a man on Hollywood Boulevard.

Police said the stabbing occurred Saturday evening, just down the street from the fabled Grauman's Chinese Theatre, where Hollywood stars have left their footprints in cement for decades.

Joseph Zachary was booked for investigation of assault with a deadly weapon. Police said the stabbing occurred after Zachary got into an altercation with a Hollywood man.

People in the area are often dressed as characters from films, and officers said they arrived to find Zachary decked out as the villain from the "Nightmare on Elm Street" movies, all the way down to six-inch knives on his gloved fingers.