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A Nightmare on Elm Street character
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Freddy Krueger
Classification:	Mass murderer[1]
Signature weapon:	Clawed glove
Location:	Elm Street
Race:	Caucasian
Creators:	Wes Craven
Portrayed by:	Robert Englund Chason Schirmer (child)[2] Tobe Sexton (teen)[2]

Freddy Krueger is a fictional character from the Nightmare on Elm Street series of slasher films. He first appears in Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) as a disfigured, dream stalker who uses a gloved armed with razors to kill teenagers in their dreams, which ultimately results in their death in the real world. He was created by Wes Craven, and has been portrayed by Robert Englund in all of the films, as well as the television series. His full name has been listed as Frederick Charles Krueger.^[3]

The character has appeared as the primary antagonist in eight films, which includes a cross-over film with another horror icon, Jason Voorhees. He has also appeared in various literature interpretations, and been the host of his own television show, titled Freddy's Nightmares.

Contents 1 Appearances 1.1 Films 1.2 Television 1.3 Literature 1.3.1 Books 1.3.2 Comics 2 Concept and creation 3 Characterization 4 Moving stuff 5 In mass media 6 References

[edit] Appearances

[edit] Films

Freddy Krueger’s first appearance is in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). The story focuses on Freddy attacking Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) and her friends in their dreams, successfully killing all but Nancy. Krueger’s back-story is revealed by Nancy’s mother, who explains he was a child murderer whom the parents of Springwood killed after Krueger was acquitted of police charges on a technicality. Nancy defeats Freddy by pulling him from the dream world, into the real world, then setting up a series of booby traps, and then finally stripping him of his powers when she stops being afraid of him.^[4] Freddy would return in the sequel, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985), terrorizing the Walsh family, who has moved into Nancy’s old home. Freddy possesses the body of Jesse Walsh (Mark Patton), using his body to kill. Jesse is saved by his girlfriend Lisa (Kim Myers), who helps Jesse fight Krueger's spirit.^[5]

Wes Craven returned to give Freddy life for a third time in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987). In the second sequel, Freddy is systematically killing the last of the Elm Street children. The few remaining children have been placed in Westin Hills Mental Institution, for reasons of "attempted suicide". Nancy Thompson arrives at Westin Hills as a new intern, and realizes the children are being killed by Freddy. With the help of Dr. Neil Gordon (Craig Wasson), Nancy helps Kristen (Patricia Arquette), Joey (Rodney Eastman), Taryn (Jennifer Rubin), Kincaid (Ken Sagoes), and Will (Ira Heiden) find their dream powers, so they can kill Freddy once and for all. Neil, unknowingly until the end, meets the spirit of Freddy’s mother, Amanda Krueger (Nan Martin), who instructs him to bury Freddy’s remains in hallowed ground in order to stop him for good. Neil completes his task, but not before Freddy kills Nancy.^[6] The character’s fourth appearance in film came with A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988). This time, Kristen (Tuesday Knight) unwittingly releases Freddy, who immediately kills Kincaid and Joey. Before Kristen is killed she transfers her dream power to her friend Alice (Lisa Wilcox), who begins inadvertently providing victims for Freddy. Alice, who has taken on the traits of the friends who were murdered, confronts Freddy and uses the power of the Dream Master to release all the souls Freddy has taken; they subsequently rip themselves from Freddy’s body, killing him in the process.^[7] Picking up shortly after the events of The Dream Master, Freddy’s next appearance, in A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, involves him using Alice’s unborn child, Jacob (Whitby Hertford), to resurrect himself and find new victims. The spirit of Amanda Krueger (Beatrice Boepple) returns, revealing that Freddy was conceived when she, a nun working in a mental asylum, was accidentally locked in a room with "100 maniac" and raped "hundreds of times". Amanda Krueger convinces Jacob to use the powers he was given by Freddy against him, which gives her the chance to subdue Freddy long enough for Alice and Jacob to escape the dream world.^[8]

In 1991, Freddy made what would have been his sixth and final appearance, in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991). This appearance reveals that Freddy has a daughter, Kathryn (Cassandra Rachel Friel), who was taken away from him during his trial. Freddy sends the sole surviving teenager of Springwood to bring his daughter back to him. He needs Maggie (Lisa Zane), who is unaware that she is adopted and had her name changed, so that he can leave Springwood, in an effort to create new "Elm Streets" and begin his killing spree again. Maggie, utilizing new dream techniques, uncovers Krueger’s past, which include: being taunted by schoolmates for being the "son of 100 maniacs", being cruel to animals, beaten by his stepfather, the murder his own wife when she discovers he has been killing children, and the moment when the Dream Demons arrive in his boiler room to make him eternal life. Eventually, Maggie pulls Freddy out of the dream world, and uses a pipe bomb to blow him up.^[2]

Wes Craven returned a third time with Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994). This film focuses on a fictional reality, where Craven, Langenkamp, and Englund all play themselves, and where the character of Freddy Krueger is really an evil entity that has been trapped in the realm of fiction by all the movies that have been made. Since the movies have stopped, the entity, which likes being Freddy Krueger, is trying to escape into the real world. The only person in its way is Heather Langenkamp, whom the entity sees as "Nancy"—the first person who defeated him. Craven explains to Langenkamp that the only way to keep the entity contained is for her to "play Nancy one more time". Langenkamp pursues "Krueger", who has kidnapped her son, into the dream world as "Nancy". There, she and her son trap Krueger in a furnace until he is finally destroyed.^[9] Freddy's most recent appearance was in Freddy vs. Jason (2003). Freddy Krueger has grown weak, as people in Springwood, his home, have suppressed their fear of him. Freddy, who is impersonating Pamela Voorhees, the mother of Jason Voorhees, sends Jason (Ken Kirzinger) to Springwood to cause panic and fear. Jason accomplishes this, but refuses to stop killing. A battle ensues in both the dream-world and Crystal Lake. The winner is left ambiguous, as Jason surfaces from the lake holding Freddy's severed head, which winks and laughs.^[10]

[edit] Television

Robert Englund continued his role as Freddy Krueger in the 1988 television series, entitled Freddy's Nightmares. Beginning on October 9, 1988, Freddy's Nightmares was an anthology series, in the vain of The Twilight Zone, which featured different horror stories each week. The show was hosted by Freddy Krueger, who did not take direct part in most of the episodes, but he did show up occassionally to influence the plot of particular episodes. The series ran for two seasons, 44 episodes, ending March 10, 1990.^[11] Although most of the episodes did not feature Freddy taking a major role in the plot, the pilot episode "No More Mr. Nice Guy" depicts the events of Krueger's trial, and his subsequent death at the hands of the parents of Elm Street after his acquittal. In "No More Mr. Nice Guy", Freddy's acquittal is based on the arresting officer, Lt. Tim Blocker, not reading him his Miranda rights, which is different from the original Nightmare that stated he was acquitted because someone forgot to sign a search warrant. The episode also reveals that Krueger used an ice cream van to lure children close enough so that he could kidnap and kill them. After the town's parents burn Freddy to death he returns to haunt Blocker in his dreams. Freddy gets his revenge when Blocker is put to sleep at the dentist's office, and Freddy shows up and kills him.^[12] The episode "Sister's Keeper" was a "sequel" to this episode, even though it was the seventh episode of the series.^[13] The episode follows Krueger as he stalks the Blocker twins, the identical twin daughters of Lt. Tim Blocker.^[12] Season two's "It's My Party and You'll Die If I Want You To" featured Freddy attacking a high school prom date who wronged him twenty years earlier.^[14]

[edit] Literature

[edit] Books

Movie Novels

• Jeffrey Cooper (February 1987). The Nightmares on Elm Street Parts 1, 2, 3: The Continuing Story. St. Martins Mass Market Paper, 216. ISBN 0312905173. 
• Joseph Locke (July 1989). The Nightmares on Elm Street Parts 4 & 5. St. Martins Press, 188. ISBN 0312917643. 
• David Bergantino (1994-11-15). Wes Craven's New Nightmare. Tor Books, 216. ISBN 0812551664. 
• Stephen Hand (2003-07-29). Freddy vs. Jason. Black Flame. ISBN 1844160599. 

Tales of Terror

• Bruce Richards (1994-11-15). Freddy Krueger's Tales of Terror #1: Blind Date. Tor Books, 160. ISBN 0812551680. 
• Bruce Richards (1995-02-15). Freddy Krueger's Tales of Terror #2: Fatal Games. Tor Books, 192. ISBN 0812551893. 
• David Bergantino (April 1995). Freddy Krueger's Tales of Terror #3: Virtual Terror. Tor Books, 160. ISBN 0812551907. 
• David Bergantino (June 1995). Freddy Krueger's Tales of Terror #4: Twice Burned. Tor Books, 154. ISBN 0812551923. 
• David Bergantino (August 1995). Freddy Krueger's Tales of Terror #5: Help Wanted. Tom Doherty Assoc LLC, 150. ISBN 0812551931. 
• David Bergantino (1995-10-15). Freddy Krueger's Tales of Terror #6: Deadly Disguise. Tor Books, 160. ISBN 0812551958. 

Black Flame series

• David Bishop (2005-04-26). A Nightmare On Elm Street #1: Suffer The Children. Black Flame, 416. ISBN 1844161722. 
• Christa Faust (2005-04-26). A Nightmare On Elm Street #2: Dreamspawn. Black Flame, 416. ISBN 1844161730. 
• Tim Waggoner (2005-09-27). A Nightmare on Elm Street #3: Protege. Black Flame, 416. ISBN 1844162559. 
• Natasha Rhodes (2006-02-28). A Nightmare on Elm Street #4: Perchance to Dream. Black Flame, 416. ISBN 1844163229. 
• Jeffrey Thomas (2006-07-11). A Nightmare on Elm Street #5: The Dream Dealers. Black Flame, 416. ISBN 1844163830. 

Short Stories

• Martin H. Greenberg (October 1991). Nightmares on Elm Street: Freddy Krueger's Seven Sweetest Dreams. St. Martin's Press, 289. ISBN 0312925859. 

[edit] Comics

[edit] Concept and creation

• The task of creating Freddy Krueger's (Robert Englund) horribly burnt face fell to makeup man David Miller, who based his creation on photos of burn victims he obtained from the UCLA Medical Center.^[15]

• By Craven's account, the name had came from Craven's childhood. He had been bullied at school by a child named Fred Krueger, and named his villain accordingly.^[15]

• Initially, Freddy Krueger was intended to be a child molester, however the decision was changed to him being a child murderer to avoid being accused of exploiting a spate of highly publicized child molestations that occurred in California around the time of production of the film.^[15]

• Englund was not the first choice for the role of Freddy Krueger; they had initially wanted a stunt man to play the part. Englund, however, was sent a copy of the script, and agreed to star.^[16]

[edit] Characterization

• Robert Englund admits the character became "a little too wise-cracky" throughout the series, but relishes the idea that Freddy "exploits your weakness with sadistic glee and humor".^[17]
• In response to Freddy being described as "sexy", Robert Englund claims that was not his intention when playing the part. However, he does admit that he plays Freddy as "confidant" and "vain", and theorizes that such vanity may be the root of the character's alleged sex appeal. He goes on to discuss how Freddy violates teenagers' privacy by invading their bedroom, and that this is a "penetration" of their subconscious.^[18]
• Englund describes Freddy as the first horror movie monster to have "personality" and attributes the character's wisecracks as making it easier to scare the audience, because they would laugh and lower their guard; he claims that if viewers are not given a way to release tension, they lose interest in the film.^[19]

A study was conducted by California State University's Media Psychology Lab, on the psychological appeal of movie monsters—Vampires, Michael Myers, Frankenstein's monster, Jason Voorhees, Godzilla, Chucky, Hannibal Lecter, King Kong, and The Alien—which surveyed 1,166 people nationwide (United States), with ages ranging from 16 to 91. It was published in the Journal of Media Psychology. In the survey, Freddy Krueger, along with Michael Myers, is cited as "pure evil", being ranked third in the survey. He his ranked second, behind Chucky, as the monster with a sense of humor, as well as being characterized as having no moral constraints. He falls behind Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Chucky and Hannibal Lecter when it comes to "enjoys killing". He is considered "realistically horrifying", beaten only by Ridley Scott's Alien. Traits highly associated with Freddy Krueger include: super strength, invisibility, the ability to frighten audiences, can alter his shape, as well as control and read a person's minds.^[20]

[edit] Moving stuff

Wizard Magazine rated him the 14th greatest villain of all time,^[21] and he came in 8th on Sky Two's 'Greatest Villains of All Time'.

On August 30, 2006, a British man named Jason Moore was sentenced to life imprisonment after attacking a friend with a homemade Freddy Krueger-style glove. Thirty-seven year old Moore was described in court as being obsessed with the character, having claimed to have watched A Nightmare on Elm Street over twenty times, including just before the attack. One of the detectives who led the investigation said the glove Moore had crafted was probably the "most horrific weapon [he had] seen". In Moore's defense, he claims to not remember the attack, and insists that he made the glove with no intention of ever using it. Moore's glove was created from a leather gardening glove with four "cut throat" blades welded into brass housings.^[22]

In 2003, the American Film Institute awarded the films villain Freddy Krueger a place at #40 on the list of AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains, a list that ranked culturally significant film heroes, heroines and villains.

[edit] In mass media

In Robot Chicken's nineteenth episode, "That Hurts Me", Michael Myers appears as a housemate of "Horror Movie Big Brother", alongside other famous slasher movie killers such as Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Ghostface, Pinhead, and Leatherface. He becomes angry at Ghostface, who shrinks Freddy's striped sweater in the wash, and during a confessional, expresses his desire to see Ghostface voted out of the house. When it comes time vote a housemate off the show, instead of pleading his case, Michael Myers proceeds to stab Freddy repeatedly.^[23]

In another Cameo, Freddy appears very briefly in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy along with Leatherface. The bride of Frankenstein says that they should hand off to more modern movie monsters. Freddy is smiling and waving while Leatherface is starting a chainsaw.

In a South Park trilogy-episode called "Imaginationland," Freddy appears as an inhabitant of a dimension with the same name. In Imaginationland, there is a barrier that separates Imaginationland's good side from its bad. Obviously, Krueger was on the bad side.

In the 2007 film Transformers, there were slashes on a wall. The sergeant said that it could've been Freddy Krueger, but Glen says "Freddy Krueger has four claws, that's Wolverine!!" (Note: The claw marks were 3 every scratch.)

In the movie Scream, the school janitor (Played by Wes Craven, director and creator of Freddy) wears the same hat and striped Christmas sweater as Freddy Krueger and his name was also Freddy.

In the Stargate Atlantis episode "Doppelganger," after the discovery of an alien entity capable of physically harming people in their dreams, Sheppard says "So what are we talking—Freddy Krueger, here?"

Krueger is parodied twice in The Simpsons – Treehouse of Horror VI episode "Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace" in which Groundskeeper Willie is burned to death only to return in the dreams of Springfield children and murder them, and Treehouse of Horror IX during the couch-gag sequence alongside Jason Voorhees, both whom are impatiently anticipating the arrival of the Simpson family.

In an episode of the X-Files "X-Cops" (712), A woman was attacked by a creature that manifests itself on people's fears posing as Krueger.

Freddy Krueger's gloves are an item on Gaia Online, released during the Halloween event. In order to obtain them, you have to get 75 points on the Vampire side.

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