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| Freddy Krueger |
Freddy Krueger is fictional character and the villain of A Nightmare on Elm Street series. He appears as a disfigured serial killer who uses a glove armed with razors to kill his victims in their dreams, causing their deaths in the walking world as well. However, whenever he is put into real world he has the normal human vulnerability.
Krueger was created by Wes Craven and has been consistently portrayed by Robert Englund since his first appearance. However in the 2010 remake he was portrayed by Academy Award-nominee Jackie Earle Hayley.
Freddie Krueger is a vengeful spirit who attacks his victims from within their dreams, who is most commonly identified by his burned, disfigure face, red and dark green striped sweater, brown fedora and trademark metal-clawed brown leather glove on his right hand. Wizard magazine rated him the 14th greatest villain; the British television channel Sky2 listed him 8th. In 2012, Freddy won an award for the Best Villain at the Scream Awards.
Robert Englund has said many times that he feels the characters represents neglect, particularly that suffered by children. The character more broadly represents the subconscious fears of others.
Wes craven says his inspiration for the basis of Freddy Krueger’s power stemmed from several stories in the Los Angeles Times about a series of mysterious deaths: All the victims had reported recurring nightmares and died in their sleep. Along with this his inspiration came from a bully from his school during his youth, a disfigured homeless man who had frightened him when he was 11, and the 1970’s pop son “Dream Weaver” by Gary Wright. It has also been claimed that the Wes Craven’s inspiration for Freddy’s infamous glove was from his hat, as he watched it claw the side of his couch one night.
Freddy’s claw/glove is used in A Nightmare on Elm Street but it has also been appeared in Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn above the door in the tool shed, as well as this it also appears in Bride of Chucky.
A Nightmare on Elm Street is an American horror franchise that includes seven slasher movies, one re-make, one extra crossover film, comic books, a television show and novels. The franchise begins with a series of films which were created by Wes Craven, based on the fictional character Freddy Krueger. The films collectively grossed over $455 million at the box-office worldwide.
The original film was released in 1984 and then a series of sequels produced by the film company New Line Cinema followed. In 1988, a television series produced with Freddy as the host, the series featured episodes with independent plots. Twelve novels, separate from the adaptations of the films and multiple comic book series were published featuring Freddy Krueger as well as a crossover film featuring follow horror icon Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th franchise.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989)
Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)
Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) – remake
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A Nightmare on Elm Street sees the set up for the many of the following movies, it is set in the fictional Midwestern town of springwood, Ohio and the plot revolves around several teenagers who are stalked and killed in their dreams. As the series increases, Freddy’s back story is revealed, in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, the protagonists learn that Freddy was conceived when his mother as gang raped by a group of mental patients – therefore making him “the son of 100 maniacs”. A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child is the fifth instalment of the series and the general tone is more gothic and dark in this film, compared to the films before and uses a blue filter lighting technique in most scenes. Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare depicts Freddy’s traumatic childhood; he is adopted as a child by an abusive alcoholic who teaches him how to torture animals and inflict pain on himself; Freddy eventually murders him and becomes a serial killer. Wes Craven’s New Nightmare is the seventh instalment of The Nightmare on Elm Street series; however it doesn’t follow the series continuity. The film is intending to show more of what Craven intentionally depicted Freddy as – more menacing and less comical, with an updated attire and appearance in general. The cross over film in the series was Freddy vs. Jason
Throughout the series, Freddy’s potential victims often experience dreams of young children, jumping rope and chanting a rhyme to the tune of the “one, two, Freddy’s coming for you...” often as an omen to Freddy’s presence or a sign of his attacks.
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