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Freddy Krueger
A Nightmare on Elm Street character
Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger
First appearance	A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Created by	Wes Craven
Portrayed by	Robert Englund Michael Bailey Smith (Super-Freddy) (1989) Tobe Sexton (young) (1991) Jackie Earle Haley (2010)
In-universe information
Alias	The Springwood Slasher
Species	Dream demon
Classification	Mass murderer[1]
Primary location	Springwood, Ohio
Signature weapon	Bladed glove

Freddy Krueger () is a fictional character and the primary antagonist in the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He was created by Wes Craven and made his debut in Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) as the malevolent spirit of a child killer who had been burned to death by his victims’ parents after evading prison.^[2] Krueger goes on to murder his victims in their dreams, causing their deaths in the real world as well. In the dream world, he is a powerful force and seemingly invulnerable. However, whenever Freddy is pulled back into the real world, he has normal human vulnerabilities and can be destroyed.^[3] He is commonly identified by his burned, disfigured face, dirty red-and-green-striped sweater and brown fedora, and trademark metal-clawed, brown leather, right hand glove. This glove was the product of Krueger’s own imagination, having welded the blades himself before using it to murder many of his victims, both in the real and dream worlds. Over the course of the film series, Freddy has battled several reoccurring survivors including Nancy Thompson and Alice Johnson.^[4] The character was consistently portrayed by Robert Englund in the original film series as well as in the television spin-off Freddy’s Nightmares. Englund has stated that he feels the character represents neglect, particularly that suffered by children. The character also more broadly represents subconscious fears.

The character quickly became a pop culture icon^[5] going on to appear in toy lines,^[6] comic books,^[7] books,^[8] sneakers,^[9] costumes,^[10] and video games^[11][12] since his debut. In 2003, Krueger appeared alongside fellow horror icon Jason Voorhees in Freddy vs. Jason. In 2010, a reboot of the film, starring Jackie Earle Haley, was released.

Wizard magazine rated Freddy the 14th-greatest villain of all time;^[13] the British television channel Sky2 listed him 8th,^[14] and the American Film Institute ranked him 40th on its «AFI’s 100 Years…100 Heroes & Villains» list.^[15] In 2010, Freddy was nominated for the award for Best Villain (formerly Most Vile Villain) at the Scream Awards.

Appearances[edit]

Film[edit]

In A Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy is introduced as a serial child killer from the fictitious town of Springwood, Ohio, who kills his victims with a bladed leather glove he crafted in a boiler room where he used to take his 20 victims. He is captured, but is set free on a technicality when it is discovered that the search warrant was not signed in the right place. He is hunted down by a mob made up of the town’s vengeful parents and cornered in the boiler room. The mob douses the building with gasoline and sets it on fire by throwing Molotov cocktails, burning him alive. While his body dies, his spirit lives on within the dreams of a group of teenagers and pre-adolescents living on Elm Street, whom he preys on by entering their dreams and killing them, fueled by the town’s memories and fear of him and empowered by a trio of ‘dream demons’ to be their willing instrument of evil. He is apparently destroyed at the end of the film by protagonist Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp), but the last scene reveals that he has survived. He goes on to antagonize the teenage protagonists of the film’s sequels, including Jesse Walsh (Mark Patton), Kristen Parker (Patricia Arquette), Alice Johnson (Lisa Wilcox), and Lori Campbell (Monica Keena).

In A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, more of Freddy’s backstory is revealed by the mysterious nun who repeatedly appears to Dr. Neil Gordon (Craig Wasson). Freddy’s mother, Amanda Krueger (Nan Martin), was a nurse at the asylum featured in the film. At the time she worked there, a largely abandoned, run-down wing of the asylum was used to lock up entire hordes of the most insane criminals all at once. When Amanda was young, she was accidentally locked into the room with the criminals over a holiday weekend. They managed to keep her hidden for days, raping her repeatedly. When she was finally discovered, she was barely alive and pregnant, with the result that Krueger was regarded as «the bastard son of a hundred maniacs» due to it being impossible to determine which of the rapists was his biological father. However, in A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, it is implied that Freddy had identified which one of them was his birth father (also portrayed by Englund in a dream sequence) and hates his mother for rejecting him. Later, in Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, it is revealed that he was adopted by an alcoholic named Mr. Underwood (Alice Cooper), who abused him throughout his childhood until Freddy finally murdered him as a teenager. Freddy tortures animals and engages in self-mutilation, and becomes a serial killer by murdering the children of people who had bullied him when he was a child. Prior to his murder, he is married to a woman named Loretta (Lindsey Fields), whom he eventually also murders. He also has a daughter, Katherine (Lisa Zane), who seeks to end her father’s horrific legacy once and for all, killing him at the end of the movie.

After a hiatus following the release of The Final Nightmare, Krueger was brought back in Wes Craven’s New Nightmare by Wes Craven, who had not worked on the film series since the third film, Dream Warriors. New Nightmare coincides with the approaching anniversary of the release of the first film. Robert Englund, who portrayed Krueger throughout the film series and its television spin-off, also took the role as a fictional version of himself in New Nightmare; it is implied that Englund was stalked by his character, who is an ancient demonic entity that took on the form of Wes Craven’s creation and has come to life from the film franchise’s fictitious world. Having been in various manifestations throughout the ages due to the entity can be captured through storytelling, it is hinted that it was once in the form of the old witch from Brothers Grimm’s fairy tale Hansel and Gretel when it was held prisoner in this allegory. Englund describes to his former co-star and friend Heather Langenkamp that this embodiment of Freddy is darker and more evil than as portrayed by him in the films; he struggles to keep his sanity intact from Krueger’s torments and goes into hiding with his family. Krueger aims to stop another film of the franchise from being made, eliminating the films’ crew members, including Langenkamp’s husband, Chase Porter (David Newsom), after stealing a prototype bladed glove from him, and causes nightmares and makes threatening phone calls to producer Robert Shaye. The entity also haunts Wes Craven’s dreams, to the point that he sees future events related to Krueger’s actions and then writes them down as a movie script. Krueger sees Langenkamp as his primary foe because her character Nancy Thompson was the first to defeat him. Krueger’s attempts to cross over to reality cause a series of earthquakes throughout Los Angeles County, including the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Langenkamp, with help from her son Dylan (Miko Hughes), succeeds in defeating the entity and apparently destroys him; however, Krueger’s creator reveals that it is again imprisoned in the fictitious world, indicated by the character’s later appearances in films and other medias.

In 2003, Freddy battled fellow horror icon Jason Voorhees (Ken Kirzinger) from the Friday the 13th film series in the theatrical release Freddy vs. Jason, a film which officially resurrected both characters from their respective deaths and subsequently sent them to Hell. As the film begins, Krueger is frustrated at his current inability to kill as knowledge of him has been hidden in Springwood, prompting him to manipulate Jason into killing in his place in the hope that the resulting fear will remind others of him so that he can resume his own murder spree. However, Freddy’s plan proves too effective when Jason starts killing people before Freddy can do it, culminating in a group of teens learning the truth and drawing Freddy and Jason to Camp Crystal Lake in the hope that they can draw Freddy into the real world so that Jason will kill him and remain «home.» The ending of the film is left ambiguous as to whether or not Freddy is actually dead; despite being decapitated, when Jason emerges from the lake carrying his head he looks and winks at the audience. A sequel featuring Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) from the Evil Dead franchise was planned, but never materialized onscreen. It was later turned into Dynamite Entertainment’s comic book series Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash.

In the 2010 remake of the original film, Freddy’s backstory is that he was a groundskeeper at Springfield Badham Preschool who tortured and sexually abused the teenage protagonists of the film when they were children. When their parents found out, they trapped him in a boiler room at an industrial park and set it on fire with a Molotov cocktail made out of a gasoline canister, killing him. As a spirit, he takes his revenge on the teenagers by haunting their dreams; he is particularly obsessed with Nancy Holbrook (Rooney Mara), who had been his “favorite” when she was a child. Krueger’s power comes from his prey’s memories and emotions upon remembering the abuse they suffered at his hands. His bladed glove is made out of discarded pieces of his gardening tools. Nancy destroys him at the end of the film by pulling his spirit into the physical world and cutting his throat; the final scene reveals that Freddy’s spirit has survived, however.

Television[edit]

Englund continued to portray Krueger in the 1988 television anthology series, Freddy’s Nightmares. The show was hosted by Freddy, who did not take direct part in most of the episodes, but he did show up occasionally to influence the plot of particular episodes. Further, a consistent theme in each episode was characters having disturbing dreams. The series ran for 44 episodes over two seasons, ending on March 10, 1990.^[16] Although a bulk 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 his trial, and his subsequent death at the hands of the parents of Elm Street after his acquittal. In «No More, Mr. Nice Guy», though Freddy’s case seems open and shut, a mistrial is declared based on the arresting officer, Lt. Tim Blocker (Ian Patrick Williams), not reading Krueger his Miranda rights, which is different from the original Nightmare, which stated he was released because someone forgot to sign the search warrant in the right place. 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 under anesthesia at the dentist’s office, and Freddy shows up and kills him.^[17] The episode «Sister’s Keeper» was a «sequel» to this episode, even though it was the seventh episode of the series.^[18] The episode follows Krueger as he terrorizes Blocker’s identical twin daughters and frames one sister for the other’s murder.^[17] 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 stood him up 20 years earlier. He gets his revenge with his desire being fulfilled in the process.^[19]

Characterization[edit]

Wes Craven said 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.^[20] Additionally, Craven’s original script characterized Freddy as a child molester, which Craven said was the «worst thing» he could think of. The decision was made to instead make him a child murderer in order to avoid being accused of exploiting the spate of highly publicized child molestation cases in California around the time A Nightmare on Elm Street went into production.^[21] Craven’s inspirations for the character included a bully from his school during his youth, a disfigured homeless man who had frightened him when he was 12, and the 1970s pop song «Dream Weaver» by Gary Wright. In an interview, he said of the disfigured stranger, «When I looked down there was a man very much like Freddy walking along the sidewalk. He must have sensed that someone was looking at him and stopped and looked right into my face. He scared the living daylights out of me, so I jumped back into the shadows. I waited and waited to hear him walk away. Finally I thought he must have gone, so I stepped back to the window. The guy was not only still looking at me but he thrust his head forward as if to say, ‘Yes, I’m still looking at you.’ The man walked towards the apartment building’s entrance. I ran through the apartment to our front door as he was walking into our building on the lower floor. I heard him starting up the stairs. My brother, who is ten years older than me, got a baseball bat and went out to the corridor but he was gone.»^[22]

Throughout the series, Freddy’s potential victims often experience dreams of young children, jumping rope and chanting a rhyme to the tune of «One, Two, Buckle My Shoe» with the lyrics changed to «One, Two, Freddy’s coming for you», often as an omen to Freddy’s presence or a precursor to his attacks. The children are often heavily implied to be the spirits of his past victims prior to his death. More of Freddy’s backstory is shown in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, revealing him to have been an unwanted child of rape, being the son of Sister Amanda Krueger, a nun who was violently raped by dozens of inmates from a mental asylum, eventually dubbed and constantly mocked as the «bastard son of a hundred maniacs». In Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, it’s shown that since a young age, Freddy displayed murderous tendencies and a penchant for self-harm, even displaying masochistic traits as he was beat as a teenager by his guardian Mr. Underwood. Robert Englund has stated that the character represents the neglect of children and the damaging results it can produce.

In Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, Freddy is characterized as a symbol of something powerful and ancient and is given more stature and muscles.^[23] Unlike the six movies before it, New Nightmare shows Freddy as closer to what Wes Craven originally intended, toning down his comedic side while strengthening the more menacing aspects of his character.

In the 2010 remake, Krueger is depicted as a sadistic pedophile (as per Craven’s original vision), who worked as a gardener at a local preschool. Unlike in the original series where he was a known child-killer who evaded conviction on a technicality, there was actually ambiguity about Krueger’s guilt or innocence apart from the testimony of his victims. His guilt is confirmed once the grown survivors find the room where Krueger molested them.

Appearance[edit]

According to Robert Englund, Freddy’s look was based on Klaus Kinski’s portrayal of Count Dracula in Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) and some of the works of Lon Chaney, while he based Freddy’s poise and gait on the «Cagney stance» originated by actor James Cagney. Freddy’s characteristic of keeping his gloved arm lower than the other was incidental due to the knives being heavy to wear for Englund and forcing him to carry himself as such while playing the role.^[24] Freddy’s physical appearance has stayed largely consistent throughout the film series, although small changes were made in subsequent films. He wears a striped red-and-green sweater (solid red sleeves in the original film), a dark brown fedora, his bladed glove, loose black trousers (brown in the original film), and worn work boots, in keeping with his blue collar background. His skin is scarred and burned as a result of being burned alive by the parents of Springwood, and he has no hair at all on his head as it presumably all burned off. In the original film, only Freddy’s face was burned, while the scars have spread to the rest of his body from the second film onwards. His blood is occasionally a dark, oily color, or greenish in hue when he is in the Dreamworld. In the original film, Freddy remains in the shadows and under lower light much longer than he does in the later pictures. In the second film, there are some scenes where Freddy is shown without his bladed glove, and instead with the blades protruding from the tips of his fingers. As the films began to emphasize the comedic, wise-cracking aspect of the character, he began to don various costumes and take on other forms, such as dressing as a waiter or wearing a Superman-inspired version of his sweater with a cape (The Dream Child), appearing as a video game sprite (Freddy’s Dead), a giant snake-like creature (Dream Warriors), and a hookah-smoking caterpillar (Freddy vs. Jason).

In New Nightmare, Freddy’s appearance is updated considerably, giving him a green fedora that matches his sweater stripes, skin-tight leather pants, knee-high black boots, a turtleneck version of his trademark sweater, a blue-black trench coat, and a fifth claw on his glove, which also has a far more organic appearance, resembling the exposed muscle tissue of an actual hand. Freddy also has fewer burns on his face, though these are more severe, with his muscle tissue exposed in numerous places. Compared to his other incarnations, these Freddy’s injuries are more like those of an actual burn victim. For the 2010 remake, Freddy is returned to his iconic attire, but the burns on his face are intensified with further bleaching of the skin and exposed facial tissue on the left cheek, more reminiscent of actual third-degree burns than in the original series.

Bladed glove[edit]

Wes Craven stated that part of the inspiration for Freddy’s infamous bladed glove was from his cat, as he watched it claw the side of his couch one night.^[25]

In an interview he said, «Part of it was an objective goal to make the character memorable, since it seems that every character that has been successful has had some kind of unique weapon, whether it be a chain saw or a machete, etc. I was also looking for a primal fear which is embedded in the subconscious of people of all cultures. One of those is the fear of teeth being broken, which I used in my first film. Another is the claw of an animal, like a saber-toothed tiger reaching with its tremendous hooks. I transposed this into a human hand. The original script had the blades being fishing knives.»^[26]

When Jim Doyle, the creator of Freddy’s claw, asked Craven what he wanted, Craven responded, «It’s kind of like really long fingernails, I want the glove to look like something that someone could make who has the skills of a boilermaker.»^[25] Doyle explained, «Then we hunted around for knives. We picked out this bizarre-looking steak knife, we thought that this looked really cool, we thought it would look even cooler if we turned it over and used it upside down. We had to remove the back edge and put another edge on it, because we were actually using the knife upside down.» Later Doyle had three duplicates of the glove made, two of which were used as stunt gloves in long shots.^[25]

For New Nightmare, Lou Carlucci, the effects coordinator, remodeled Freddy’s glove for a more «organic look». He says, «I did the original glove on the first Nightmare and we deliberately made that rough and primitive looking, like something that would be constructed in somebody’s home workshop. Since this is supposed to be a new look for Freddy, Craven and everybody involved decided that the glove should be different. This hand has more muscle and bone texture to it, the blades are shinier and in one case, are retractable. Everything about this glove has a much cleaner look to it, it’s more a natural part of his hand than a glove.» The new glove has five claws.^{[citation needed]}

In the 2010 remake, the glove is redesigned as a metal gauntlet with four finger bars, but it is patterned after its original design. Owing to this iteration of the character’s origin as a groundskeeper, from the outset it was a gardener’s glove modified as an instrument of torture, and in film its blades was based on a garden fork.

Freddy’s glove appeared in the 1987 horror-comedy Evil Dead II above the door on the inside of a toolshed. This was Sam Raimi’s response to Wes Craven showing footage of The Evil Dead in A Nightmare on Elm Street, which was a response to Raimi putting a poster of Craven’s 1977 film The Hills Have Eyes in The Evil Dead. This, in turn, was a response to a ripped-up Jaws poster in The Hills Have Eyes.^[27] The glove also appears in the 1998 horror-comedy Bride of Chucky in an evidence locker room that also contains the remains of the film’s villain Chucky, the chainsaw of Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and the masks of Michael Myers from Halloween and Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th.

At the end of the film Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, the mask of the title character, Jason Voorhees, played by Kane Hodder, is dragged under the earth by Freddy’s gloved hand. Freddy’s gloved hand, in the ending, was played by Hodder.^[28]

In popular culture[edit]

Amusement parks[edit]

At Six Flags St. Louis’ Fright Fest event (then known as Fright Nights), Krueger was the main character for the event’s first year in 1988. He reappeared in his own haunted house, Freddy’s Nightmare: The Haunted House on Elm Street, for the following two years. Freddy Krueger appeared alongside Jason Voorhees and Leatherface as minor icons during Halloween Horror Nights 17 and again with Jason during Halloween Horror Nights 25 at Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood. In 2016, Freddy Krueger returned to Halloween Horror Nights, along with Jason, in Hollywood.

Miscellaneous[edit]

Freddy Krueger made different appearances in Robot Chicken voiced by Seth Green. In the episode «That Hurts Me», Freddy appears as a housemate of «Horror Movie Big Brother», alongside other famous slasher movie killers such as Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Leatherface, Pinhead and Ghostface.^[29] In the Treehouse of Horror VI segment «A Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace», Groundskeeper Willie played the Freddy Krueger role, with his backstory being toned down to him accidentally setting himself on fire thanks to Homer turning up the boiler and burning to death due to the parents ignoring his pleas for help, deciding to avenge himself by targeting their kids for their callously letting him burn to death. Krueger ultimately was stopped by Maggie plugging his bagpipe spider form, causing him to uncontrollably inflate and detonate within the dream world, though it is implied in the ending this resulted in him being restored to life in reality, albeit significantly less threatening.^[30]

Freddy’s first video game appearance was in the 1989 NES game A Nightmare on Elm Street.^[31] The game was published by LJN Toys and developed by Rare. Freddy Krueger appeared as a downloadable playable character for Mortal Kombat (2011), with Robert Englund reprising his role.^[32][33] He has become the second non-Mortal Kombat character to appear in the game. The game depicts Krueger as a malevolent spirit inhabiting the Dream Realm who attacks Shao Kahn for «stealing» the souls of his potential victims. During the fight, he is pulled into the game’s fictional depiction of the real world. The injured Krueger arms himself with two razor claws to continue to battle Kahn. Upon defeating him, Krueger is sent back to the Dream Realm by Nightwolf, where he continues to haunt the dreams of his human prey.^[34] In an interview with PlayStation.Blog, Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon cited the character’s violent nature and iconic status as reasoning for the inclusion in the game, «Over the years, we’ve certainly had a number of conversations about guest characters. At one point, we had a conversation about having a group—imagine Freddy, Jason, Michael Myers, Leatherface from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. We never got a grip on how we would do it, whether they’d be DLC characters or what. We also wanted to introduce a character who was unexpected. This DLC thing opens the doors to realising these ideas.»^[35] Krueger went on to become playable in the mobile edition of the game’s sequel, Mortal Kombat X, alongside Jason from Friday the 13th.^[36]

In October 2017, the Jackie Earle Haley incarnation of Krueger was released as a downloadable playable character in the seventh chapter of the asymmetric survival horror game Dead by Daylight, alongside Quentin Smith.^[37] The events of the chapter are set immediately following Nancy Holbrook’s escape from Krueger, after which he targets Quentin Smith as revenge for aiding her. Invading Smith’s dreams, he forces him to go to the Badham Preschool, where the two are unwittingly taken to the universe of Dead by Daylight by an unseen force.^[38]

The character returned to television in an episode of The Goldbergs titled «Mister Knifey-Hands» with Englund reprising his role in a cameo.^[39] Freddy Krueger appears as an OASIS avatar in Ready Player One.^[40] He is among the avatars seen on the PVP location Planet Doom where he is shot by Aech.^{[citation needed]}

The frog species Lepidobatrachus laevis had been given multiple nicknames, one of which is the «Freddy Krueger frog» for its aggressive nature.^[41]

References[edit]

Freddy Krueger
A Nightmare on Elm Street character
Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger
First appearance	A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Created by	Wes Craven
Portrayed by	Robert Englund Michael Bailey Smith (Super-Freddy) (1989) Tobe Sexton (young) (1991) Jackie Earle Haley (2010)
In-universe information
Alias	The Springwood Slasher
Species	Dream demon
Classification	Mass murderer[1]
Primary location	Springwood, Ohio
Signature weapon	Bladed glove

Freddy Krueger () is a fictional character and the primary antagonist in the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He was created by Wes Craven and made his debut in Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) as the malevolent spirit of a child killer who had been burned to death by his victims’ parents after evading prison.^[2] Krueger goes on to murder his victims in their dreams, causing their deaths in the real world as well. In the dream world, he is a powerful force and seemingly invulnerable. However, whenever Freddy is pulled back into the real world, he has normal human vulnerabilities and can be destroyed.^[3] He is commonly identified by his burned, disfigured face, dirty red-and-green-striped sweater and brown fedora, and trademark metal-clawed, brown leather, right hand glove. This glove was the product of Krueger’s own imagination, having welded the blades himself before using it to murder many of his victims, both in the real and dream worlds. Over the course of the film series, Freddy has battled several reoccurring survivors including Nancy Thompson and Alice Johnson.^[4] The character was consistently portrayed by Robert Englund in the original film series as well as in the television spin-off Freddy’s Nightmares. Englund has stated that he feels the character represents neglect, particularly that suffered by children. The character also more broadly represents subconscious fears.

The character quickly became a pop culture icon^[5] going on to appear in toy lines,^[6] comic books,^[7] books,^[8] sneakers,^[9] costumes,^[10] and video games^[11][12] since his debut. In 2003, Krueger appeared alongside fellow horror icon Jason Voorhees in Freddy vs. Jason. In 2010, a reboot of the film, starring Jackie Earle Haley, was released.

Wizard magazine rated Freddy the 14th-greatest villain of all time;^[13] the British television channel Sky2 listed him 8th,^[14] and the American Film Institute ranked him 40th on its «AFI’s 100 Years…100 Heroes & Villains» list.^[15] In 2010, Freddy was nominated for the award for Best Villain (formerly Most Vile Villain) at the Scream Awards.

Appearances[edit]

Film[edit]

In A Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy is introduced as a serial child killer from the fictitious town of Springwood, Ohio, who kills his victims with a bladed leather glove he crafted in a boiler room where he used to take his 20 victims. He is captured, but is set free on a technicality when it is discovered that the search warrant was not signed in the right place. He is hunted down by a mob made up of the town’s vengeful parents and cornered in the boiler room. The mob douses the building with gasoline and sets it on fire by throwing Molotov cocktails, burning him alive. While his body dies, his spirit lives on within the dreams of a group of teenagers and pre-adolescents living on Elm Street, whom he preys on by entering their dreams and killing them, fueled by the town’s memories and fear of him and empowered by a trio of ‘dream demons’ to be their willing instrument of evil. He is apparently destroyed at the end of the film by protagonist Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp), but the last scene reveals that he has survived. He goes on to antagonize the teenage protagonists of the film’s sequels, including Jesse Walsh (Mark Patton), Kristen Parker (Patricia Arquette), Alice Johnson (Lisa Wilcox), and Lori Campbell (Monica Keena).

In A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, more of Freddy’s backstory is revealed by the mysterious nun who repeatedly appears to Dr. Neil Gordon (Craig Wasson). Freddy’s mother, Amanda Krueger (Nan Martin), was a nurse at the asylum featured in the film. At the time she worked there, a largely abandoned, run-down wing of the asylum was used to lock up entire hordes of the most insane criminals all at once. When Amanda was young, she was accidentally locked into the room with the criminals over a holiday weekend. They managed to keep her hidden for days, raping her repeatedly. When she was finally discovered, she was barely alive and pregnant, with the result that Krueger was regarded as «the bastard son of a hundred maniacs» due to it being impossible to determine which of the rapists was his biological father. However, in A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, it is implied that Freddy had identified which one of them was his birth father (also portrayed by Englund in a dream sequence) and hates his mother for rejecting him. Later, in Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, it is revealed that he was adopted by an alcoholic named Mr. Underwood (Alice Cooper), who abused him throughout his childhood until Freddy finally murdered him as a teenager. Freddy tortures animals and engages in self-mutilation, and becomes a serial killer by murdering the children of people who had bullied him when he was a child. Prior to his murder, he is married to a woman named Loretta (Lindsey Fields), whom he eventually also murders. He also has a daughter, Katherine (Lisa Zane), who seeks to end her father’s horrific legacy once and for all, killing him at the end of the movie.

After a hiatus following the release of The Final Nightmare, Krueger was brought back in Wes Craven’s New Nightmare by Wes Craven, who had not worked on the film series since the third film, Dream Warriors. New Nightmare coincides with the approaching anniversary of the release of the first film. Robert Englund, who portrayed Krueger throughout the film series and its television spin-off, also took the role as a fictional version of himself in New Nightmare; it is implied that Englund was stalked by his character, who is an ancient demonic entity that took on the form of Wes Craven’s creation and has come to life from the film franchise’s fictitious world. Having been in various manifestations throughout the ages due to the entity can be captured through storytelling, it is hinted that it was once in the form of the old witch from Brothers Grimm’s fairy tale Hansel and Gretel when it was held prisoner in this allegory. Englund describes to his former co-star and friend Heather Langenkamp that this embodiment of Freddy is darker and more evil than as portrayed by him in the films; he struggles to keep his sanity intact from Krueger’s torments and goes into hiding with his family. Krueger aims to stop another film of the franchise from being made, eliminating the films’ crew members, including Langenkamp’s husband, Chase Porter (David Newsom), after stealing a prototype bladed glove from him, and causes nightmares and makes threatening phone calls to producer Robert Shaye. The entity also haunts Wes Craven’s dreams, to the point that he sees future events related to Krueger’s actions and then writes them down as a movie script. Krueger sees Langenkamp as his primary foe because her character Nancy Thompson was the first to defeat him. Krueger’s attempts to cross over to reality cause a series of earthquakes throughout Los Angeles County, including the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Langenkamp, with help from her son Dylan (Miko Hughes), succeeds in defeating the entity and apparently destroys him; however, Krueger’s creator reveals that it is again imprisoned in the fictitious world, indicated by the character’s later appearances in films and other medias.

In 2003, Freddy battled fellow horror icon Jason Voorhees (Ken Kirzinger) from the Friday the 13th film series in the theatrical release Freddy vs. Jason, a film which officially resurrected both characters from their respective deaths and subsequently sent them to Hell. As the film begins, Krueger is frustrated at his current inability to kill as knowledge of him has been hidden in Springwood, prompting him to manipulate Jason into killing in his place in the hope that the resulting fear will remind others of him so that he can resume his own murder spree. However, Freddy’s plan proves too effective when Jason starts killing people before Freddy can do it, culminating in a group of teens learning the truth and drawing Freddy and Jason to Camp Crystal Lake in the hope that they can draw Freddy into the real world so that Jason will kill him and remain «home.» The ending of the film is left ambiguous as to whether or not Freddy is actually dead; despite being decapitated, when Jason emerges from the lake carrying his head he looks and winks at the audience. A sequel featuring Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) from the Evil Dead franchise was planned, but never materialized onscreen. It was later turned into Dynamite Entertainment’s comic book series Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash.

In the 2010 remake of the original film, Freddy’s backstory is that he was a groundskeeper at Springfield Badham Preschool who tortured and sexually abused the teenage protagonists of the film when they were children. When their parents found out, they trapped him in a boiler room at an industrial park and set it on fire with a Molotov cocktail made out of a gasoline canister, killing him. As a spirit, he takes his revenge on the teenagers by haunting their dreams; he is particularly obsessed with Nancy Holbrook (Rooney Mara), who had been his “favorite” when she was a child. Krueger’s power comes from his prey’s memories and emotions upon remembering the abuse they suffered at his hands. His bladed glove is made out of discarded pieces of his gardening tools. Nancy destroys him at the end of the film by pulling his spirit into the physical world and cutting his throat; the final scene reveals that Freddy’s spirit has survived, however.

Television[edit]

Englund continued to portray Krueger in the 1988 television anthology series, Freddy’s Nightmares. The show was hosted by Freddy, who did not take direct part in most of the episodes, but he did show up occasionally to influence the plot of particular episodes. Further, a consistent theme in each episode was characters having disturbing dreams. The series ran for 44 episodes over two seasons, ending on March 10, 1990.^[16] Although a bulk 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 his trial, and his subsequent death at the hands of the parents of Elm Street after his acquittal. In «No More, Mr. Nice Guy», though Freddy’s case seems open and shut, a mistrial is declared based on the arresting officer, Lt. Tim Blocker (Ian Patrick Williams), not reading Krueger his Miranda rights, which is different from the original Nightmare, which stated he was released because someone forgot to sign the search warrant in the right place. 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 under anesthesia at the dentist’s office, and Freddy shows up and kills him.^[17] The episode «Sister’s Keeper» was a «sequel» to this episode, even though it was the seventh episode of the series.^[18] The episode follows Krueger as he terrorizes Blocker’s identical twin daughters and frames one sister for the other’s murder.^[17] 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 stood him up 20 years earlier. He gets his revenge with his desire being fulfilled in the process.^[19]

Characterization[edit]

Wes Craven said 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.^[20] Additionally, Craven’s original script characterized Freddy as a child molester, which Craven said was the «worst thing» he could think of. The decision was made to instead make him a child murderer in order to avoid being accused of exploiting the spate of highly publicized child molestation cases in California around the time A Nightmare on Elm Street went into production.^[21] Craven’s inspirations for the character included a bully from his school during his youth, a disfigured homeless man who had frightened him when he was 12, and the 1970s pop song «Dream Weaver» by Gary Wright. In an interview, he said of the disfigured stranger, «When I looked down there was a man very much like Freddy walking along the sidewalk. He must have sensed that someone was looking at him and stopped and looked right into my face. He scared the living daylights out of me, so I jumped back into the shadows. I waited and waited to hear him walk away. Finally I thought he must have gone, so I stepped back to the window. The guy was not only still looking at me but he thrust his head forward as if to say, ‘Yes, I’m still looking at you.’ The man walked towards the apartment building’s entrance. I ran through the apartment to our front door as he was walking into our building on the lower floor. I heard him starting up the stairs. My brother, who is ten years older than me, got a baseball bat and went out to the corridor but he was gone.»^[22]

Throughout the series, Freddy’s potential victims often experience dreams of young children, jumping rope and chanting a rhyme to the tune of «One, Two, Buckle My Shoe» with the lyrics changed to «One, Two, Freddy’s coming for you», often as an omen to Freddy’s presence or a precursor to his attacks. The children are often heavily implied to be the spirits of his past victims prior to his death. More of Freddy’s backstory is shown in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, revealing him to have been an unwanted child of rape, being the son of Sister Amanda Krueger, a nun who was violently raped by dozens of inmates from a mental asylum, eventually dubbed and constantly mocked as the «bastard son of a hundred maniacs». In Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, it’s shown that since a young age, Freddy displayed murderous tendencies and a penchant for self-harm, even displaying masochistic traits as he was beat as a teenager by his guardian Mr. Underwood. Robert Englund has stated that the character represents the neglect of children and the damaging results it can produce.

In Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, Freddy is characterized as a symbol of something powerful and ancient and is given more stature and muscles.^[23] Unlike the six movies before it, New Nightmare shows Freddy as closer to what Wes Craven originally intended, toning down his comedic side while strengthening the more menacing aspects of his character.

In the 2010 remake, Krueger is depicted as a sadistic pedophile (as per Craven’s original vision), who worked as a gardener at a local preschool. Unlike in the original series where he was a known child-killer who evaded conviction on a technicality, there was actually ambiguity about Krueger’s guilt or innocence apart from the testimony of his victims. His guilt is confirmed once the grown survivors find the room where Krueger molested them.

Appearance[edit]

According to Robert Englund, Freddy’s look was based on Klaus Kinski’s portrayal of Count Dracula in Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) and some of the works of Lon Chaney, while he based Freddy’s poise and gait on the «Cagney stance» originated by actor James Cagney. Freddy’s characteristic of keeping his gloved arm lower than the other was incidental due to the knives being heavy to wear for Englund and forcing him to carry himself as such while playing the role.^[24] Freddy’s physical appearance has stayed largely consistent throughout the film series, although small changes were made in subsequent films. He wears a striped red-and-green sweater (solid red sleeves in the original film), a dark brown fedora, his bladed glove, loose black trousers (brown in the original film), and worn work boots, in keeping with his blue collar background. His skin is scarred and burned as a result of being burned alive by the parents of Springwood, and he has no hair at all on his head as it presumably all burned off. In the original film, only Freddy’s face was burned, while the scars have spread to the rest of his body from the second film onwards. His blood is occasionally a dark, oily color, or greenish in hue when he is in the Dreamworld. In the original film, Freddy remains in the shadows and under lower light much longer than he does in the later pictures. In the second film, there are some scenes where Freddy is shown without his bladed glove, and instead with the blades protruding from the tips of his fingers. As the films began to emphasize the comedic, wise-cracking aspect of the character, he began to don various costumes and take on other forms, such as dressing as a waiter or wearing a Superman-inspired version of his sweater with a cape (The Dream Child), appearing as a video game sprite (Freddy’s Dead), a giant snake-like creature (Dream Warriors), and a hookah-smoking caterpillar (Freddy vs. Jason).

In New Nightmare, Freddy’s appearance is updated considerably, giving him a green fedora that matches his sweater stripes, skin-tight leather pants, knee-high black boots, a turtleneck version of his trademark sweater, a blue-black trench coat, and a fifth claw on his glove, which also has a far more organic appearance, resembling the exposed muscle tissue of an actual hand. Freddy also has fewer burns on his face, though these are more severe, with his muscle tissue exposed in numerous places. Compared to his other incarnations, these Freddy’s injuries are more like those of an actual burn victim. For the 2010 remake, Freddy is returned to his iconic attire, but the burns on his face are intensified with further bleaching of the skin and exposed facial tissue on the left cheek, more reminiscent of actual third-degree burns than in the original series.

Bladed glove[edit]

Wes Craven stated that part of the inspiration for Freddy’s infamous bladed glove was from his cat, as he watched it claw the side of his couch one night.^[25]

In an interview he said, «Part of it was an objective goal to make the character memorable, since it seems that every character that has been successful has had some kind of unique weapon, whether it be a chain saw or a machete, etc. I was also looking for a primal fear which is embedded in the subconscious of people of all cultures. One of those is the fear of teeth being broken, which I used in my first film. Another is the claw of an animal, like a saber-toothed tiger reaching with its tremendous hooks. I transposed this into a human hand. The original script had the blades being fishing knives.»^[26]

When Jim Doyle, the creator of Freddy’s claw, asked Craven what he wanted, Craven responded, «It’s kind of like really long fingernails, I want the glove to look like something that someone could make who has the skills of a boilermaker.»^[25] Doyle explained, «Then we hunted around for knives. We picked out this bizarre-looking steak knife, we thought that this looked really cool, we thought it would look even cooler if we turned it over and used it upside down. We had to remove the back edge and put another edge on it, because we were actually using the knife upside down.» Later Doyle had three duplicates of the glove made, two of which were used as stunt gloves in long shots.^[25]

For New Nightmare, Lou Carlucci, the effects coordinator, remodeled Freddy’s glove for a more «organic look». He says, «I did the original glove on the first Nightmare and we deliberately made that rough and primitive looking, like something that would be constructed in somebody’s home workshop. Since this is supposed to be a new look for Freddy, Craven and everybody involved decided that the glove should be different. This hand has more muscle and bone texture to it, the blades are shinier and in one case, are retractable. Everything about this glove has a much cleaner look to it, it’s more a natural part of his hand than a glove.» The new glove has five claws.^{[citation needed]}

In the 2010 remake, the glove is redesigned as a metal gauntlet with four finger bars, but it is patterned after its original design. Owing to this iteration of the character’s origin as a groundskeeper, from the outset it was a gardener’s glove modified as an instrument of torture, and in film its blades was based on a garden fork.

Freddy’s glove appeared in the 1987 horror-comedy Evil Dead II above the door on the inside of a toolshed. This was Sam Raimi’s response to Wes Craven showing footage of The Evil Dead in A Nightmare on Elm Street, which was a response to Raimi putting a poster of Craven’s 1977 film The Hills Have Eyes in The Evil Dead. This, in turn, was a response to a ripped-up Jaws poster in The Hills Have Eyes.^[27] The glove also appears in the 1998 horror-comedy Bride of Chucky in an evidence locker room that also contains the remains of the film’s villain Chucky, the chainsaw of Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and the masks of Michael Myers from Halloween and Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th.

At the end of the film Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, the mask of the title character, Jason Voorhees, played by Kane Hodder, is dragged under the earth by Freddy’s gloved hand. Freddy’s gloved hand, in the ending, was played by Hodder.^[28]

In popular culture[edit]

Amusement parks[edit]

At Six Flags St. Louis’ Fright Fest event (then known as Fright Nights), Krueger was the main character for the event’s first year in 1988. He reappeared in his own haunted house, Freddy’s Nightmare: The Haunted House on Elm Street, for the following two years. Freddy Krueger appeared alongside Jason Voorhees and Leatherface as minor icons during Halloween Horror Nights 17 and again with Jason during Halloween Horror Nights 25 at Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood. In 2016, Freddy Krueger returned to Halloween Horror Nights, along with Jason, in Hollywood.

Miscellaneous[edit]

Freddy Krueger made different appearances in Robot Chicken voiced by Seth Green. In the episode «That Hurts Me», Freddy appears as a housemate of «Horror Movie Big Brother», alongside other famous slasher movie killers such as Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Leatherface, Pinhead and Ghostface.^[29] In the Treehouse of Horror VI segment «A Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace», Groundskeeper Willie played the Freddy Krueger role, with his backstory being toned down to him accidentally setting himself on fire thanks to Homer turning up the boiler and burning to death due to the parents ignoring his pleas for help, deciding to avenge himself by targeting their kids for their callously letting him burn to death. Krueger ultimately was stopped by Maggie plugging his bagpipe spider form, causing him to uncontrollably inflate and detonate within the dream world, though it is implied in the ending this resulted in him being restored to life in reality, albeit significantly less threatening.^[30]

Freddy’s first video game appearance was in the 1989 NES game A Nightmare on Elm Street.^[31] The game was published by LJN Toys and developed by Rare. Freddy Krueger appeared as a downloadable playable character for Mortal Kombat (2011), with Robert Englund reprising his role.^[32][33] He has become the second non-Mortal Kombat character to appear in the game. The game depicts Krueger as a malevolent spirit inhabiting the Dream Realm who attacks Shao Kahn for «stealing» the souls of his potential victims. During the fight, he is pulled into the game’s fictional depiction of the real world. The injured Krueger arms himself with two razor claws to continue to battle Kahn. Upon defeating him, Krueger is sent back to the Dream Realm by Nightwolf, where he continues to haunt the dreams of his human prey.^[34] In an interview with PlayStation.Blog, Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon cited the character’s violent nature and iconic status as reasoning for the inclusion in the game, «Over the years, we’ve certainly had a number of conversations about guest characters. At one point, we had a conversation about having a group—imagine Freddy, Jason, Michael Myers, Leatherface from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. We never got a grip on how we would do it, whether they’d be DLC characters or what. We also wanted to introduce a character who was unexpected. This DLC thing opens the doors to realising these ideas.»^[35] Krueger went on to become playable in the mobile edition of the game’s sequel, Mortal Kombat X, alongside Jason from Friday the 13th.^[36]

In October 2017, the Jackie Earle Haley incarnation of Krueger was released as a downloadable playable character in the seventh chapter of the asymmetric survival horror game Dead by Daylight, alongside Quentin Smith.^[37] The events of the chapter are set immediately following Nancy Holbrook’s escape from Krueger, after which he targets Quentin Smith as revenge for aiding her. Invading Smith’s dreams, he forces him to go to the Badham Preschool, where the two are unwittingly taken to the universe of Dead by Daylight by an unseen force.^[38]

The character returned to television in an episode of The Goldbergs titled «Mister Knifey-Hands» with Englund reprising his role in a cameo.^[39] Freddy Krueger appears as an OASIS avatar in Ready Player One.^[40] He is among the avatars seen on the PVP location Planet Doom where he is shot by Aech.^{[citation needed]}

The frog species Lepidobatrachus laevis had been given multiple nicknames, one of which is the «Freddy Krueger frog» for its aggressive nature.^[41]

References[edit]

Freddy Krueger
A Nightmare on Elm Street character
Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger
First appearance	A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Created by	Wes Craven
Portrayed by	Robert Englund Michael Bailey Smith (Super-Freddy) (1989) Tobe Sexton (young) (1991) Jackie Earle Haley (2010)
In-universe information
Alias	The Springwood Slasher
Species	Dream demon
Classification	Mass murderer[1]
Primary location	Springwood, Ohio
Signature weapon	Bladed glove

Freddy Krueger () is a fictional character and the primary antagonist in the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He was created by Wes Craven and made his debut in Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) as the malevolent spirit of a child killer who had been burned to death by his victims’ parents after evading prison.^[2] Krueger goes on to murder his victims in their dreams, causing their deaths in the real world as well. In the dream world, he is a powerful force and seemingly invulnerable. However, whenever Freddy is pulled back into the real world, he has normal human vulnerabilities and can be destroyed.^[3] He is commonly identified by his burned, disfigured face, dirty red-and-green-striped sweater and brown fedora, and trademark metal-clawed, brown leather, right hand glove. This glove was the product of Krueger’s own imagination, having welded the blades himself before using it to murder many of his victims, both in the real and dream worlds. Over the course of the film series, Freddy has battled several reoccurring survivors including Nancy Thompson and Alice Johnson.^[4] The character was consistently portrayed by Robert Englund in the original film series as well as in the television spin-off Freddy’s Nightmares. Englund has stated that he feels the character represents neglect, particularly that suffered by children. The character also more broadly represents subconscious fears.

The character quickly became a pop culture icon^[5] going on to appear in toy lines,^[6] comic books,^[7] books,^[8] sneakers,^[9] costumes,^[10] and video games^[11][12] since his debut. In 2003, Krueger appeared alongside fellow horror icon Jason Voorhees in Freddy vs. Jason. In 2010, a reboot of the film, starring Jackie Earle Haley, was released.

Wizard magazine rated Freddy the 14th-greatest villain of all time;^[13] the British television channel Sky2 listed him 8th,^[14] and the American Film Institute ranked him 40th on its «AFI’s 100 Years…100 Heroes & Villains» list.^[15] In 2010, Freddy was nominated for the award for Best Villain (formerly Most Vile Villain) at the Scream Awards.

Appearances[edit]

Film[edit]

In A Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy is introduced as a serial child killer from the fictitious town of Springwood, Ohio, who kills his victims with a bladed leather glove he crafted in a boiler room where he used to take his 20 victims. He is captured, but is set free on a technicality when it is discovered that the search warrant was not signed in the right place. He is hunted down by a mob made up of the town’s vengeful parents and cornered in the boiler room. The mob douses the building with gasoline and sets it on fire by throwing Molotov cocktails, burning him alive. While his body dies, his spirit lives on within the dreams of a group of teenagers and pre-adolescents living on Elm Street, whom he preys on by entering their dreams and killing them, fueled by the town’s memories and fear of him and empowered by a trio of ‘dream demons’ to be their willing instrument of evil. He is apparently destroyed at the end of the film by protagonist Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp), but the last scene reveals that he has survived. He goes on to antagonize the teenage protagonists of the film’s sequels, including Jesse Walsh (Mark Patton), Kristen Parker (Patricia Arquette), Alice Johnson (Lisa Wilcox), and Lori Campbell (Monica Keena).

In A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, more of Freddy’s backstory is revealed by the mysterious nun who repeatedly appears to Dr. Neil Gordon (Craig Wasson). Freddy’s mother, Amanda Krueger (Nan Martin), was a nurse at the asylum featured in the film. At the time she worked there, a largely abandoned, run-down wing of the asylum was used to lock up entire hordes of the most insane criminals all at once. When Amanda was young, she was accidentally locked into the room with the criminals over a holiday weekend. They managed to keep her hidden for days, raping her repeatedly. When she was finally discovered, she was barely alive and pregnant, with the result that Krueger was regarded as «the bastard son of a hundred maniacs» due to it being impossible to determine which of the rapists was his biological father. However, in A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, it is implied that Freddy had identified which one of them was his birth father (also portrayed by Englund in a dream sequence) and hates his mother for rejecting him. Later, in Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, it is revealed that he was adopted by an alcoholic named Mr. Underwood (Alice Cooper), who abused him throughout his childhood until Freddy finally murdered him as a teenager. Freddy tortures animals and engages in self-mutilation, and becomes a serial killer by murdering the children of people who had bullied him when he was a child. Prior to his murder, he is married to a woman named Loretta (Lindsey Fields), whom he eventually also murders. He also has a daughter, Katherine (Lisa Zane), who seeks to end her father’s horrific legacy once and for all, killing him at the end of the movie.

After a hiatus following the release of The Final Nightmare, Krueger was brought back in Wes Craven’s New Nightmare by Wes Craven, who had not worked on the film series since the third film, Dream Warriors. New Nightmare coincides with the approaching anniversary of the release of the first film. Robert Englund, who portrayed Krueger throughout the film series and its television spin-off, also took the role as a fictional version of himself in New Nightmare; it is implied that Englund was stalked by his character, who is an ancient demonic entity that took on the form of Wes Craven’s creation and has come to life from the film franchise’s fictitious world. Having been in various manifestations throughout the ages due to the entity can be captured through storytelling, it is hinted that it was once in the form of the old witch from Brothers Grimm’s fairy tale Hansel and Gretel when it was held prisoner in this allegory. Englund describes to his former co-star and friend Heather Langenkamp that this embodiment of Freddy is darker and more evil than as portrayed by him in the films; he struggles to keep his sanity intact from Krueger’s torments and goes into hiding with his family. Krueger aims to stop another film of the franchise from being made, eliminating the films’ crew members, including Langenkamp’s husband, Chase Porter (David Newsom), after stealing a prototype bladed glove from him, and causes nightmares and makes threatening phone calls to producer Robert Shaye. The entity also haunts Wes Craven’s dreams, to the point that he sees future events related to Krueger’s actions and then writes them down as a movie script. Krueger sees Langenkamp as his primary foe because her character Nancy Thompson was the first to defeat him. Krueger’s attempts to cross over to reality cause a series of earthquakes throughout Los Angeles County, including the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Langenkamp, with help from her son Dylan (Miko Hughes), succeeds in defeating the entity and apparently destroys him; however, Krueger’s creator reveals that it is again imprisoned in the fictitious world, indicated by the character’s later appearances in films and other medias.

In 2003, Freddy battled fellow horror icon Jason Voorhees (Ken Kirzinger) from the Friday the 13th film series in the theatrical release Freddy vs. Jason, a film which officially resurrected both characters from their respective deaths and subsequently sent them to Hell. As the film begins, Krueger is frustrated at his current inability to kill as knowledge of him has been hidden in Springwood, prompting him to manipulate Jason into killing in his place in the hope that the resulting fear will remind others of him so that he can resume his own murder spree. However, Freddy’s plan proves too effective when Jason starts killing people before Freddy can do it, culminating in a group of teens learning the truth and drawing Freddy and Jason to Camp Crystal Lake in the hope that they can draw Freddy into the real world so that Jason will kill him and remain «home.» The ending of the film is left ambiguous as to whether or not Freddy is actually dead; despite being decapitated, when Jason emerges from the lake carrying his head he looks and winks at the audience. A sequel featuring Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) from the Evil Dead franchise was planned, but never materialized onscreen. It was later turned into Dynamite Entertainment’s comic book series Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash.

In the 2010 remake of the original film, Freddy’s backstory is that he was a groundskeeper at Springfield Badham Preschool who tortured and sexually abused the teenage protagonists of the film when they were children. When their parents found out, they trapped him in a boiler room at an industrial park and set it on fire with a Molotov cocktail made out of a gasoline canister, killing him. As a spirit, he takes his revenge on the teenagers by haunting their dreams; he is particularly obsessed with Nancy Holbrook (Rooney Mara), who had been his “favorite” when she was a child. Krueger’s power comes from his prey’s memories and emotions upon remembering the abuse they suffered at his hands. His bladed glove is made out of discarded pieces of his gardening tools. Nancy destroys him at the end of the film by pulling his spirit into the physical world and cutting his throat; the final scene reveals that Freddy’s spirit has survived, however.

Television[edit]

Englund continued to portray Krueger in the 1988 television anthology series, Freddy’s Nightmares. The show was hosted by Freddy, who did not take direct part in most of the episodes, but he did show up occasionally to influence the plot of particular episodes. Further, a consistent theme in each episode was characters having disturbing dreams. The series ran for 44 episodes over two seasons, ending on March 10, 1990.^[16] Although a bulk 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 his trial, and his subsequent death at the hands of the parents of Elm Street after his acquittal. In «No More, Mr. Nice Guy», though Freddy’s case seems open and shut, a mistrial is declared based on the arresting officer, Lt. Tim Blocker (Ian Patrick Williams), not reading Krueger his Miranda rights, which is different from the original Nightmare, which stated he was released because someone forgot to sign the search warrant in the right place. 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 under anesthesia at the dentist’s office, and Freddy shows up and kills him.^[17] The episode «Sister’s Keeper» was a «sequel» to this episode, even though it was the seventh episode of the series.^[18] The episode follows Krueger as he terrorizes Blocker’s identical twin daughters and frames one sister for the other’s murder.^[17] 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 stood him up 20 years earlier. He gets his revenge with his desire being fulfilled in the process.^[19]

Characterization[edit]

Wes Craven said 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.^[20] Additionally, Craven’s original script characterized Freddy as a child molester, which Craven said was the «worst thing» he could think of. The decision was made to instead make him a child murderer in order to avoid being accused of exploiting the spate of highly publicized child molestation cases in California around the time A Nightmare on Elm Street went into production.^[21] Craven’s inspirations for the character included a bully from his school during his youth, a disfigured homeless man who had frightened him when he was 12, and the 1970s pop song «Dream Weaver» by Gary Wright. In an interview, he said of the disfigured stranger, «When I looked down there was a man very much like Freddy walking along the sidewalk. He must have sensed that someone was looking at him and stopped and looked right into my face. He scared the living daylights out of me, so I jumped back into the shadows. I waited and waited to hear him walk away. Finally I thought he must have gone, so I stepped back to the window. The guy was not only still looking at me but he thrust his head forward as if to say, ‘Yes, I’m still looking at you.’ The man walked towards the apartment building’s entrance. I ran through the apartment to our front door as he was walking into our building on the lower floor. I heard him starting up the stairs. My brother, who is ten years older than me, got a baseball bat and went out to the corridor but he was gone.»^[22]

Throughout the series, Freddy’s potential victims often experience dreams of young children, jumping rope and chanting a rhyme to the tune of «One, Two, Buckle My Shoe» with the lyrics changed to «One, Two, Freddy’s coming for you», often as an omen to Freddy’s presence or a precursor to his attacks. The children are often heavily implied to be the spirits of his past victims prior to his death. More of Freddy’s backstory is shown in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, revealing him to have been an unwanted child of rape, being the son of Sister Amanda Krueger, a nun who was violently raped by dozens of inmates from a mental asylum, eventually dubbed and constantly mocked as the «bastard son of a hundred maniacs». In Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, it’s shown that since a young age, Freddy displayed murderous tendencies and a penchant for self-harm, even displaying masochistic traits as he was beat as a teenager by his guardian Mr. Underwood. Robert Englund has stated that the character represents the neglect of children and the damaging results it can produce.

In Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, Freddy is characterized as a symbol of something powerful and ancient and is given more stature and muscles.^[23] Unlike the six movies before it, New Nightmare shows Freddy as closer to what Wes Craven originally intended, toning down his comedic side while strengthening the more menacing aspects of his character.

In the 2010 remake, Krueger is depicted as a sadistic pedophile (as per Craven’s original vision), who worked as a gardener at a local preschool. Unlike in the original series where he was a known child-killer who evaded conviction on a technicality, there was actually ambiguity about Krueger’s guilt or innocence apart from the testimony of his victims. His guilt is confirmed once the grown survivors find the room where Krueger molested them.

Appearance[edit]

According to Robert Englund, Freddy’s look was based on Klaus Kinski’s portrayal of Count Dracula in Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) and some of the works of Lon Chaney, while he based Freddy’s poise and gait on the «Cagney stance» originated by actor James Cagney. Freddy’s characteristic of keeping his gloved arm lower than the other was incidental due to the knives being heavy to wear for Englund and forcing him to carry himself as such while playing the role.^[24] Freddy’s physical appearance has stayed largely consistent throughout the film series, although small changes were made in subsequent films. He wears a striped red-and-green sweater (solid red sleeves in the original film), a dark brown fedora, his bladed glove, loose black trousers (brown in the original film), and worn work boots, in keeping with his blue collar background. His skin is scarred and burned as a result of being burned alive by the parents of Springwood, and he has no hair at all on his head as it presumably all burned off. In the original film, only Freddy’s face was burned, while the scars have spread to the rest of his body from the second film onwards. His blood is occasionally a dark, oily color, or greenish in hue when he is in the Dreamworld. In the original film, Freddy remains in the shadows and under lower light much longer than he does in the later pictures. In the second film, there are some scenes where Freddy is shown without his bladed glove, and instead with the blades protruding from the tips of his fingers. As the films began to emphasize the comedic, wise-cracking aspect of the character, he began to don various costumes and take on other forms, such as dressing as a waiter or wearing a Superman-inspired version of his sweater with a cape (The Dream Child), appearing as a video game sprite (Freddy’s Dead), a giant snake-like creature (Dream Warriors), and a hookah-smoking caterpillar (Freddy vs. Jason).

In New Nightmare, Freddy’s appearance is updated considerably, giving him a green fedora that matches his sweater stripes, skin-tight leather pants, knee-high black boots, a turtleneck version of his trademark sweater, a blue-black trench coat, and a fifth claw on his glove, which also has a far more organic appearance, resembling the exposed muscle tissue of an actual hand. Freddy also has fewer burns on his face, though these are more severe, with his muscle tissue exposed in numerous places. Compared to his other incarnations, these Freddy’s injuries are more like those of an actual burn victim. For the 2010 remake, Freddy is returned to his iconic attire, but the burns on his face are intensified with further bleaching of the skin and exposed facial tissue on the left cheek, more reminiscent of actual third-degree burns than in the original series.

Bladed glove[edit]

Wes Craven stated that part of the inspiration for Freddy’s infamous bladed glove was from his cat, as he watched it claw the side of his couch one night.^[25]

In an interview he said, «Part of it was an objective goal to make the character memorable, since it seems that every character that has been successful has had some kind of unique weapon, whether it be a chain saw or a machete, etc. I was also looking for a primal fear which is embedded in the subconscious of people of all cultures. One of those is the fear of teeth being broken, which I used in my first film. Another is the claw of an animal, like a saber-toothed tiger reaching with its tremendous hooks. I transposed this into a human hand. The original script had the blades being fishing knives.»^[26]

When Jim Doyle, the creator of Freddy’s claw, asked Craven what he wanted, Craven responded, «It’s kind of like really long fingernails, I want the glove to look like something that someone could make who has the skills of a boilermaker.»^[25] Doyle explained, «Then we hunted around for knives. We picked out this bizarre-looking steak knife, we thought that this looked really cool, we thought it would look even cooler if we turned it over and used it upside down. We had to remove the back edge and put another edge on it, because we were actually using the knife upside down.» Later Doyle had three duplicates of the glove made, two of which were used as stunt gloves in long shots.^[25]

For New Nightmare, Lou Carlucci, the effects coordinator, remodeled Freddy’s glove for a more «organic look». He says, «I did the original glove on the first Nightmare and we deliberately made that rough and primitive looking, like something that would be constructed in somebody’s home workshop. Since this is supposed to be a new look for Freddy, Craven and everybody involved decided that the glove should be different. This hand has more muscle and bone texture to it, the blades are shinier and in one case, are retractable. Everything about this glove has a much cleaner look to it, it’s more a natural part of his hand than a glove.» The new glove has five claws.^{[citation needed]}

In the 2010 remake, the glove is redesigned as a metal gauntlet with four finger bars, but it is patterned after its original design. Owing to this iteration of the character’s origin as a groundskeeper, from the outset it was a gardener’s glove modified as an instrument of torture, and in film its blades was based on a garden fork.

Freddy’s glove appeared in the 1987 horror-comedy Evil Dead II above the door on the inside of a toolshed. This was Sam Raimi’s response to Wes Craven showing footage of The Evil Dead in A Nightmare on Elm Street, which was a response to Raimi putting a poster of Craven’s 1977 film The Hills Have Eyes in The Evil Dead. This, in turn, was a response to a ripped-up Jaws poster in The Hills Have Eyes.^[27] The glove also appears in the 1998 horror-comedy Bride of Chucky in an evidence locker room that also contains the remains of the film’s villain Chucky, the chainsaw of Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and the masks of Michael Myers from Halloween and Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th.

At the end of the film Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, the mask of the title character, Jason Voorhees, played by Kane Hodder, is dragged under the earth by Freddy’s gloved hand. Freddy’s gloved hand, in the ending, was played by Hodder.^[28]

In popular culture[edit]

Amusement parks[edit]

At Six Flags St. Louis’ Fright Fest event (then known as Fright Nights), Krueger was the main character for the event’s first year in 1988. He reappeared in his own haunted house, Freddy’s Nightmare: The Haunted House on Elm Street, for the following two years. Freddy Krueger appeared alongside Jason Voorhees and Leatherface as minor icons during Halloween Horror Nights 17 and again with Jason during Halloween Horror Nights 25 at Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood. In 2016, Freddy Krueger returned to Halloween Horror Nights, along with Jason, in Hollywood.

Miscellaneous[edit]

Freddy Krueger made different appearances in Robot Chicken voiced by Seth Green. In the episode «That Hurts Me», Freddy appears as a housemate of «Horror Movie Big Brother», alongside other famous slasher movie killers such as Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Leatherface, Pinhead and Ghostface.^[29] In the Treehouse of Horror VI segment «A Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace», Groundskeeper Willie played the Freddy Krueger role, with his backstory being toned down to him accidentally setting himself on fire thanks to Homer turning up the boiler and burning to death due to the parents ignoring his pleas for help, deciding to avenge himself by targeting their kids for their callously letting him burn to death. Krueger ultimately was stopped by Maggie plugging his bagpipe spider form, causing him to uncontrollably inflate and detonate within the dream world, though it is implied in the ending this resulted in him being restored to life in reality, albeit significantly less threatening.^[30]

Freddy’s first video game appearance was in the 1989 NES game A Nightmare on Elm Street.^[31] The game was published by LJN Toys and developed by Rare. Freddy Krueger appeared as a downloadable playable character for Mortal Kombat (2011), with Robert Englund reprising his role.^[32][33] He has become the second non-Mortal Kombat character to appear in the game. The game depicts Krueger as a malevolent spirit inhabiting the Dream Realm who attacks Shao Kahn for «stealing» the souls of his potential victims. During the fight, he is pulled into the game’s fictional depiction of the real world. The injured Krueger arms himself with two razor claws to continue to battle Kahn. Upon defeating him, Krueger is sent back to the Dream Realm by Nightwolf, where he continues to haunt the dreams of his human prey.^[34] In an interview with PlayStation.Blog, Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon cited the character’s violent nature and iconic status as reasoning for the inclusion in the game, «Over the years, we’ve certainly had a number of conversations about guest characters. At one point, we had a conversation about having a group—imagine Freddy, Jason, Michael Myers, Leatherface from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. We never got a grip on how we would do it, whether they’d be DLC characters or what. We also wanted to introduce a character who was unexpected. This DLC thing opens the doors to realising these ideas.»^[35] Krueger went on to become playable in the mobile edition of the game’s sequel, Mortal Kombat X, alongside Jason from Friday the 13th.^[36]

In October 2017, the Jackie Earle Haley incarnation of Krueger was released as a downloadable playable character in the seventh chapter of the asymmetric survival horror game Dead by Daylight, alongside Quentin Smith.^[37] The events of the chapter are set immediately following Nancy Holbrook’s escape from Krueger, after which he targets Quentin Smith as revenge for aiding her. Invading Smith’s dreams, he forces him to go to the Badham Preschool, where the two are unwittingly taken to the universe of Dead by Daylight by an unseen force.^[38]

The character returned to television in an episode of The Goldbergs titled «Mister Knifey-Hands» with Englund reprising his role in a cameo.^[39] Freddy Krueger appears as an OASIS avatar in Ready Player One.^[40] He is among the avatars seen on the PVP location Planet Doom where he is shot by Aech.^{[citation needed]}

The frog species Lepidobatrachus laevis had been given multiple nicknames, one of which is the «Freddy Krueger frog» for its aggressive nature.^[41]

References[edit]

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This is about the Freddy Krueger of the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series, predominantly played by Robert Englund. If you are looking for one or more other versions of Freddy Krueger, please check Freddy Krueger (disambiguation).

Frederick Charles Krueger, referred to as Freddy Krueger and Fred Krueger, is a serial killer and the main antagonist of the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. A family man on the surface, Krueger was actually the serial killer known as the «Springwood Slasher».

It is hinted in some of the films that some of his victims and their parents may have been from other parts of Springwood besides Elm Street. It is also hinted in some of the films that people other than parents of the victims and people not living on Elm Street participated in the burning of Freddy Krueger. Throughout the film series, many things are only vaguely hinted at.

When he was caught and subsequently released on a technicality, the parents of his victims, and possibly other people, as stated above, tracked him to the Boiler Room of the Power Plant he once worked at and burned him alive. Three Dream Demons offered Krueger the chance to continue after his physical death, with the ability enter his victims’ dreams and kill them in the Dream World, which would thus cause their death in the physical world and absorb their souls afterward.

As revenge upon the people who burned him to death, he targeted those people’s children, who were obviously older than most or all of his pre-death victims.

He also targeted Marge Thompson. He went almost as far out of his way to do this as targeting the teenagers.

He later killed Donald Thompson, though he didn’t go out of his way to do this.

He is predominantly portrayed in the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series by Robert Englund. He was portrayed by two other actors in Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare. He was briefly portrayed by Kane Hodder in Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday.

Biography

Pre-death

Birth

Amanda Krueger, a nun who worked at the Hathaway House, an asylum for the criminally insane, was accidentally locked in a room where one hundred maniacs were housed. They attacked and raped her repeatedly until she was found barely alive and ultimately pregnant. In September 1942, she gave birth to a boy named Frederick Charles Krueger,^[1] who was placed with an abusive alcoholic named Mr. Underwood.^[2]

Elementary School

While in elementary school Freddy killed the class hamster and was bullied for being the son of a hundred maniacs.

Teenage

During his teenage years he would cut himself with a shaving razor for pleasure. He used the same razor to kill Mr. Underwood when he was beating him as revenge for all the times he abused him.^[2]

The Springwood Slasher

«The Springwood Slasher. That’s what they called me.»

—Freddy Krueger (Freddy vs. Jason (film))

As an adult, Freddy worked at the local power plant and had raised a daughter with his loving wife. However, behind that peaceful facade, lay in his own twisted heart a seething and horrific desire for vengeance and retribution for what hell Springwood had inflicted on to him. Targeting the children of his former classmates now turned the populace of Springwood, Freddy’s MO was to take his victims to his workplace’s boiler room. He created a glove with fish knives on the fingers, and as he kidnapped children, he mangled and tortured them with it. With their remains thrown and spread throughout town,^[3] his acts earned him the reputation as the serial killer named the Springwood Slasher.^[4] He killed around twenty children before he was arrested. However, because the arrest warrant was signed in the wrong place and the judge drunk at the time of the proceeding, Krueger was released. The townsfolk were furious and took the law into their own hands. They cornered him in his lair and doused him in gasoline and set him on fire. While the building was burning, Freddy was approached by Dream Demons. Krueger took the offer from Dream Demons to continue his killing spree. He was allowed to roam the Dream World, where any damage he inflicted would cause death in the physical world.^[3]

Post-death

Attacking Nancy

«Come to Freddy.»

—Freddy Krueger

In A Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy invaded the nightmares of Tina Gray, Nancy Thompson, Rod Lane and Glen Lantz. Tina became his first post-death victim when he slashed her across the chest with his clawed glove, which did the same amount of damage to her in the physical world and throwing and dragging her around the room, killing her. Rod Lane was accused of killing Tina and was arrested. Freddy hung him with the sheets on his bed in his cell, making it appear as though he hung himself. Freddy kept stalking Nancy, who devised a plan with her boyfriend Glen Lantz to capture him. That night, however, Glen fell asleep and Freddy pulled him into the bed and shot him upward in a fountain of blood. Nancy managed to pull him into the real world and set him on fire, but he killed Nancy’s mother, Marge Thompson, by burning her to death. Nancy confronted Freddy a final time and turned her back on him, draining him of all his powers and destroying him. In the end, he appears to trap Nancy in a dream world where she is trapped in a red and green striped car with Tina, Glen, and Rod, driving away.

Possessing Jesse

«Go ahead, Jesse. Try it on for size. Kill for me!»

—Freddy Krueger

In A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, Freddy was unable to operate in his usual way, so he appeared in the nightmares of Jesse Walsh, who moved into Nancy’s house five years after she defeated Freddy. He manipulated him and made him pick up his clawed glove, and would often possess him to kill his victims, which would briefly transform his body into Freddy’s (interestingly enough, whenever Freddy appeared, he was not wearing his clawed glove; instead, knives were protruding from his fingers). In this method, Freddy attempted, but failed, to kill Jesse’s sister, killed Schneider, Jesse’s coach who was always punishing him, and his friend Ron Grady. He then proceeded to kill seven guests at Lisa Webber’s party before Lisa got through to Jesse, who was able to fight Freddy from the inside, weakening him and using his power to set Freddy on fire; burning him and releasing Jesse unharmed. However, Freddy apparently returned to attack people in their nightmares, attacking Jesse and Lisa on the bus. Whether or not this was a dream sequence is unknown.

Stalking Kristen

«Die!»

—Freddy Krueger

In A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Freddy has killed all the children of the people who burned him to death (particularly those whose parents were responsible for his death) in their nightmares, making it appear as though they were committing suicide, except Kristen Parker (who possesses the power to pull people into her dreams), Roland Kincaid, Taryn White, Joey Crusel, Phillip Anderson, Jennifer Caulfield, and Will Stanton, all of whom were committed to Westin Hills Asylum. Freddy killed Phillip and Jennifer, making their deaths appear as suicides. Hypnocil was prescribed to them at the request of Nancy (who now works at Westin Hills) and Neil Gordon. Unfortunately, during group hypnosis, Joey was captured by Freddy and hung above a fiery pit, in the physical world putting him in a coma. Nancy and the Dream Warriors (Kristen, Kincaid, Taryn, and Will, all of whom have powers in their dreams) fought Freddy, but he was able to kill Taryn and Will. It is revealed that Freddy takes the souls of his victims in order to gain more power. When Nancy’s father, Donald Thompson, and Neil attempt to bury Freddy’s bones, he took control of them and impaled Donald on a spike. He then tricked Nancy and stabbed her to death but she was able to use his glove against him in once last attempt to subdue him before she died. Meanwhile, Neil was able to bury Freddy’s bones and throw holy water and a crucifix on them, causing him to disappear.

Encounter with Alice Johnson

«Welcome to wonderland, Alice!»

—Freddy Krueger

In A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, Freddy managed to resurrect himself during a dream by Kincaid, involving Kincaid’s dog, Jason, digging him up. He stabbed Kincaid dead and drowned Joey. When Kristen’s mother gave her sleeping pills, Freddy threw her into the furnace, but as Freddy took her soul, she transferred her power to Alice Johnson. Freddy used Alice to get to more victims (who are not from Elm Street), by having her (unintentionally) pull them into the dream world and then him killing them. In this way, Freddy killed Sheila (making it appear as an asthma attack) and Alice’s brother Rick. He later killed Debbie before Alice and her boyfriend Dan Jordan fought him, and Alice used a shard of the stained glass window to reflect Freddy’s evil back at him, causing the souls of his victims to tear him apart, destroying him and releasing them from him.

Revival and reuniting with Alice

«It’s a boy!»

—Freddy Krueger

In A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, Freddy was reborn through the spirit of Amanda Krueger, and began using Alice’s dream power, to pull more victims into his dream world, and tried to control her unborn son, Jacob’s soul, to enable him to live in Jacob’s dream world forever. He killed Dan, Greta Gibson, and fed Jacob with their souls, in order to turn him into pure evil. Realizing this, Alice tried to find Amanda to bring Freddy back to hell. Later, he kills one of Alice’s best friends, Mark Gray before Alice could defeat him. After Mark’s death, Alice calls her another friend Yvonne, who survived from another of Freddy’s attack, to release Amanda’s soul, and she enabled Jacob to use his power on Freddy to revert him back into an infant, where Amanda absorbed him. He was last seen attempting to claw his way out.

Leaving Springwood and death

«Kids.»

—Freddy Krueger

In Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, Freddy killed all the children and teens of Springwood except John Doe, whom he made forget about his past and sent him into the outside world so he could use him to get to his daughter, who is now called Maggie Burroughs, whom he intended to use to spread his influence outside Springwood. He also kept the adults of Springwood in mass psychosis. When three troubled teens named Carlos, Spencer, and Tracy traveled with John and Maggie to Springwood, and entered the house on Elm Street, Freddy killed Carlos and Spencer. John believed himself to be Freddy’s son, but Freddy killed him by making him fall onto spikes. By this time, Freddy was so powerful that no one except Maggie, Tracy, and Doc remembered Carlos, Spencer, or John, as they were erased from everyone’s memories. Once Maggie figured out that she was Freddy’s daughter, and Doc figured out that Freddy could be pulled out of the dream world (and subsequently killed), Maggie entered the dream world and pulled Freddy out. There, she inflicted several injuries on him before stabbing him with his own clawed glove and sticking him with a pipe bomb, which blew Freddy to bits and released the dream demons that gave him his power. However, while Freddy was dead and in Hell, he is unable to leave as everyone else do not know of his existence and therefore cannot fear him. This allows Springwood four years of peace.

Battle with Jason Voorhees

«Make them remember me, Jason. Make them REMEMBER WHAT FEAR TASTES LIKE!!»

—Freddy Krueger to Jason Voorhees under the guise of Pamela VoorheesAfter his death, Freddy was stuck in Hell, unable to return to either the Dream World or the physical world, because no non-adults remembered him and therefore were not afraid of him. Those who made contact with him were locked in Westin Hills (to avoid «infecting» the others) and given Hypnocil to prevent them from dreaming.

However, in Freddy vs. Jason, Freddy discovered Jason Voorhees, another immortal serial killer, who had also been killed and sent to Hell (At the conclusion to Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, Freddy pulled Jason’s mask into Hell after his death). By disguising himself as Jason’s mother, Mrs. Voorhees, he was able to bring Jason back to life to spread fear, so people would think he was back. Eventually, Freddy was able to return when enough fear was spread across Springwood, but the one thing Freddy hadn’t counted on was that Jason wouldn’t stop killing, stealing one of Freddy’s victims from him. However, he did manage to kill Mark Davis.

«Die, you little bitch!»

—Freddy Krueger

When Lori Campbell (whose mother he had killed earlier), Will Rollins, Kia Waterson, Charlie Linderman, Bill Freeburg, and Deputy Scott Stubbs went to Westin Hills to get Hypnocil, Freddy possessed Freeburg (who was high) to inject Jason with tranquilizer (though Jason killed Freeburg in the process). Freddy attacked Jason inside his dream, but was unable to kill him. However, he nearly succeeded in drowning him, until Jason woke up. Lori and the others were currently taking Jason to Crystal Lake to give him a home field advantage for a fight with Freddy. Eventually, Lori pulled Freddy out of the dream world and he fought Jason. Initially, the fight worked more in Freddy’s favor, as his agility was enough to overpower the much slower and stronger Jason. Jason, however, soon gained the advantage until Freddy cut off his fingers, took his machete, and inflicted several injuries on him before Lori set them both on fire, causing an explosion that sent them flying into Crystal Lake. Before the explosion, Jason pulled off Freddy’s arm.

Freddy survived, and tried to kill Lori and Will, but was stabbed by Jason using his own severed arm, and Lori decapitated him with Jason’s machete. Afterwards Jason walks out of Crystal Lake holding Freddy’s head. It looks as if Jason has won the battle but Freddy’s head winks at the camera followed by his laughter as the screen goes black. So it appears Freddy has survived and will continue to kill another day.

Freddy Kills Lori (Alternate Ending #1)

Freddy was disguised as Will, who was having sex with Lori, but Freddy reveals his glove, and kills her.

Battle in Hell (Alternate Ending #2)

Freddy and Jason were going to continue their battle in Hell, but they get stopped by Pinhead from the, «Hellraiser» films, and says, «What seems to be the problem gentlemen?»

Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash

In Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash, Freddy is trapped inside Jason Voorhees’ head and wants to get out. He manages to learn of the Necronomicon Ex Mortis and once again uses the image of Pamela Voorhees to trick Jason.

He uses Jason to bring him the cursed book, but had no idea that Ash Williams was going to be here in Crystal Lake which was renamed Forest Green. Ash learned from a group of kids at the new mega sized S-Mart about Jason himself. Ash thinks of him as some Deadite monster, so he goes to the Voorhees house himself to learn the truth. There, Ash finds the book and he along with a group of kids barely escape with their lives because Jason was hot on their trail.

The gang makes it back to the S-Mart, but Jason follows them and begins killing all of the store’s shoppers. Ash and Jason tangle, but Ash is made a chump by Jason and he escapes with the book. The Necronomicon is brought to Jason’s shrine to his mother where her severed head along with Freddy’s severed head is as well. Freddy recites the chant «Klaatu Barada Nikto» to make himself all powerful again. He fully intends to get back to business in killing kids, but intends to deal with Ash first. Ash and the kids he is with fell asleep and Ash has a dream about being back at the same cabin where he lost his hand. However he had his hand back, but it soon morphs to look very similar to Freddy’s bladed glove. Ash quickly retreats to a tool shed to get the chainsaw to lop it off at the wrist, but soon Freddy makes an entrance. Freddy manifests himself from the pools of blood that spat from Ash and he attempts to kill him.

Ash manages to escape by waking himself up, but he soon learns that whatever happens in the dream world also happens in the real world. One of the kids he was protecting learned that the hard way when Freddy killed him which made Ash incredibly sad and disgusted. They came up with a plan though to finally kill Jason and Freddy which is they went back to the Voorhees house. Using the book, Freddy gave himself the power to exist in both worlds, but also made Jason much smarter. Jason and Freddy’s alliance ended with them again trying to kill each other, but Ash and another survivor finally managed to defeat them both. Freddy was sent to the Deadite dimension and Jason was trapped underneath a frozen Crystal Lake. However, Jason’s eyes open one more time to prove that he can’t be defeated…

Characterization

Powers and abilities

Freddy can enter the dreams of anyone on Elm Street in Springwood (provided that there is enough fear of him), and whatever injuries he inflicts on them in the dream world will cross over into the real world. This is how he kills his victims. He usually uses his clawed glove, but often manipulates the dream world around him, usually in accordance to a person’s personality or fears. (For example, he turns Debbie, who hates bugs, into a cockroach and crushes her; injects Taryn, who has a history of abusing drugs, with heroin; smashes Jennifer’s face against the TV, when Jennifer wanted to be an actress and appear on TV). He cannot be killed while he is in the dream world. In the dream world he has displayed various capabilities which include the ability to regenerate lost body parts, shapeshifting and telekinetic powers. Even when he is pulled out of the dream world and into the real world, he has enhanced physical capabilities, is quite adept with his metal claws and can withstand an incredible amount of damage that no living human can take.

Weaknesses

Freddy cannot spread his influence beyond Springwood, unless he uses his daughter to get there. If he is killed, he cannot return if no one remembers him or is afraid of him. He can also be pulled out of the dream world, in which case, he is mortal, cannot use most of his powers (although he retains some of them like climbing up the ceiling or shapeshifting into his unburnt self, as evidenced in Freddy’s Dead), and can die (though, as shown in Freddy’s Dead and Freddy vs. Jason) he can withstand slightly more than regular humans do, as he suffers multiple injuries by Maggie and Jason and survives, when anyone else might have been killed by such injuries, but apparently can be killed by injuries serious enough as explosions or decapitation. Despite the fact that he sometimes uses it to kill his victims, Freddy appears to be afraid of fire (as it was by fire that caused his mortal death). Should an incident occur between Freddy and his dream demon masters, the demons have the capability of taking away Freddy’s powers, rendering him in a weakened state. As stated and shown in The Dream Master, as he is a literal nightmare, he is also adversely weak against mirrors and reflections, as they come to recall his pain and torment that he has long inflicted on others.

Appearance

Freddy is easily recognizable by his red and green striped sweater, his clawed glove, and his brown hat,

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Pre-death adult

He looked like Robert Englund.

Post-death

He is easily recognizable by the burns to his face and body. For some reason, his eyes appear not to be burned.

Films

A Nightmare on Elm Street

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A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge

Main article: A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (film)

In the first sequel, Freddy’s Revenge, makeup artist Kevin Yagher gave Freddy bone structure in his face and a pointed nose, intending it to resemble that of a male witch.^[5]

Quotes

A Nightmare On Elm Street

• «This… is God.»
• «Hey, Nancy! No running in the hallway.»
• «Come to Freddy.»
• «Nancy, help me, please. Save me from Freddy!»
• «I’m your boyfriend now, Nancy.»
• «Gonna get you.»
• «I’m gonna cut you in two!»

A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge

• «You’ve got the body. I’ve got the brain.»
• «Go ahead, Jesse. Try it on for size. Kill for me!»
• «You are all my children now.»
• «Help yourself, fucker!»
• «There is no Jesse! I’m Jesse now!»

A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

• «This is it, Jennifer. Your big break in TV! Welcome to prime time, bitch!»
• «What’s wrong, Joey? Feeling tongue-tied?»
• «I said, ‘where’s the fucking bourbon?!'»
• «Let’s get high. What a rush.»
• «Sorry, kid. I don’t believe in fairytales!»
• «Yes. The souls of the children give me strength. Always room for more.»
• «Sorry to keep you waiting. Perhaps if there was more of me to spread around.»

A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

• «You shouldn’t have buried me. I’m not dead.»
• «Tell ’em Freddy sent ya!»
• «How’s this for a wet dream?»
• «How sweet… Fresh meat!»
• «Wanna suck face?»
• «If food don’t kill you, the service will.»
• «No pain, no gain.»
• «You can check in, but you can’t check out.»
• «Well, it ain’t Dr. Seuss!»
• «Welcome to Wonderland, Alice!»
• «I’ve been guarding my gate for a long time, bitch.»
• «I am eternal.»
• «You flunk.»
• «Sayonara, Rick-san!»
• «Elm Street’s last brat…Farewell!»
• «I wanna draw some blood!»

A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

• «Hey, Danny! Better not dream and drive!»
• «Bon appétit, bitch!»
• «Told ya, comic books was bad for ya!»
• «It’s a boy!»
• «Kids, always a disappointment!»
• «This boy feels the need for speed!»
• «Fuel injection! Fast lane!»
• «Is she delicious, or am I crazy?»
• «Faster than a bastard maniac! More powerful than a loco-madman! It’s Super-Freddy!»
• «You are what you eat!»
• «If I were you, lady, I’d kill the ungrateful piggy.»
• «Second helping!»
• «We’ll see, bitch. We’ll just see.»

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare

• «I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little soul too!»
• «No screaming while the bus is in motion!»
• «Carlos. Lend me your ear.»
• «Yeah! What are you on? Look’s like a frying pan and some eggs to me! Hey, Spence. Let’s trip out.»
• «Great graphics.»
• «Right. Left. Right, left, right, left, pow!»
• «Father knows best.»
• «Time to start all over again.»
• «Now I’m playin’ with power!»
• «Pow! Bam! Splat!»
• «Every town has an Elm Street!»
• «Hey! You forgot the Power Glove!»
• «What do you know? I beat my highscore.»
• «Let me see now. First, they tried burning me! Then they tried burying me! But this. This is my favourite. They even tried holy water. But I just keep on tickin’. ‘Cause they promised me that.»
• «The Dream people. The ones who gave me this job.»
• «In dreams, I am forever! Too bad you’re not!»
• «Nice hearin’ from ya, Carlos!»
• «Kids.»
• «You wanna know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start using it.»
• «Sticks and stones may break my bones, but nothing will ever kill me.»
• «Now, be a good little doggy, and go fetch!»
• «I forgot how much it hurts to be human.»
• «Kung-Fu this, bitch!»
• «What’s with kids today, huh? No respect.»

Freddy vs. Jason

• «Being dead wasn’t a problem, but being forgotten? Now that’s a bitch!»
• «Welcome to my nightmare!»
• «Oh, don’t worry about my little errand boy. The only thing to fear, is fear himself!»
• «You’re like a big, stupid dog who can’t stop eating, even though your master says you’ve had enough!»
• «NOOOO! She’s mine! Mine! Mine!»
• «It’s time to put this bad dog to sleep…For good!»
• «NOT MY ARM!»
• «Oh…Tilt!»
• «Ahhh…so, you are afraid of something after all, huh?»
• «There’s a face only a mother could love!»
• «How sweet, you ugly little shit!»
• «It’s not my fault if this bitch was dead on her feet.»
• «What’s wrong, Lori? Miss your wake up call?»
• «How sweet… Dark meat.»
• «Welcome to my world, bitch.»
• «I’ve always had a thing for the whores that live in this house.»
• «I’ve been away from my children for far too long…»
• Make them remember me, Jason! Make them remember what fear tastes like!
• «Man the torpedoes.»
• «I should warn you, princess. The first time tends to get a little…messy.»
• «Oh-no. OH-NOOOOOO!»
• «Die, you little bitch!»
• Your eyes say «No, no.» But my mouth says «Yes, yes.»
• «Not strong enough yet, though I will be soon enough, until then, I’ll let Jason have some fun.»
• «Oh that’s right, everyone forgot, that’s why they weren’t afraid anymore, that’s why I needed Jason to kill for me to get them to remember, but now he just won’t stop! That Hockey pock!»
• «Hey, asshole! Up here!»

Trivia

• Freddy is the only antagonist to be shown in so many and in every single sequel in its franchise. (A Nightmare on Elm Street to Freddy vs. Jason)
• Robert Englund is the only actor to play Freddy in every Nightmare related movie and the television show, (excluding the 2010 reboot).
• David Warner was slated to play Freddy. Make-Up tests were done, but Warner had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts and Robert Englund was cast as a replacement.
• Along with being a serial killer Wes Craven also wanted Freddy to be a child molester, but this being straight out stated was soon dropped. However, it was still strongly implied in the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. It was, however, straight out stated in Freddy’s Nightmares: A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Series and the 2010 reboot. Also, in the 2010 reboot, there are no references to him having killed anyone before being burned to death. This doesn’t necessarily mean he didn’t.
• His father is one of the unknowns residents in sanitarium.
• It’s highly possible that he is based on SUNDS (or Sudden Unexpected Nocturnal Death Syndrome), a disease that, coincidentally, also involves a nightmare that would kill the victim… Another coincidence is that both use fear (Freddy uses it for power and SUNDS uses it to kill). The only difference between the two is that Freddy actually murders the victims while SUNDS simply «scares them to death»…
• In 2003, Freddy Krueger was named the 40th greatest film villain on American Film Institute’s 100 Years… 100 Heroes and Villains.
• Wizard magazine rated Freddy the 14th greatest villain,^[3] the British television channel Sky2 listed him 8th,^[4] and the American Film Institute ranked him 40th on its «AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Heroes and Villains» list.^[5] In 2010, Freddy won an award for Best Villain (formerly Most Vile Villain) at the Scream Awards.

• 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.^[15] Additionally, Craven’s original script characterized Freddy as a child molester, which Craven said was the «worst thing» he could think of. The decision was made to not straight out state this, though it is still implied, instead making him a child murderer in order to avoid being accused of exploiting the spate of highly publicized child molestation cases in California around the time A Nightmare on Elm Street went into production.^[16] Craven’s inspirations for the character included a bully from his school during his youth, a disfigured homeless man who had frightened him when he was 11, and the 1970s pop song «Dream Weaver» by Gary Wright. In an interview, he said, «When I looked down there was a man very much like Freddy walking along the sidewalk. He must have sensed that someone was looking at him and stopped and looked right into my face. He scared the living daylights out of me, so I jumped back into the shadows. I waited and waited to hear him walk away. Finally I thought he must have gone, so I stepped back to the window. The guy was not only still looking at me but he thrust his head forward as if to say, ‘Yes, I’m still looking at you.’ The man walked towards the apartment building’s entrance. I ran through the apartment to our front door as he was walking into our building on the lower floor. I heard him starting up the stairs. My brother, who is ten years older than me, got a baseball bat and went out to the corridor but he was gone.»^[17]

• Freddy’s back story is revealed gradually throughout the series. In A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, the protagonists learn that Freddy’s mother, Amanda Krueger, was a nun who worked in Westin Hills mental hospital caring for the inmates. Freddy was conceived when she was accidentally locked inside over the Christmas holiday and gang-raped by a group of the inmates, thus making him «the bastard son of 100 maniacs». Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare depicts Freddy’s traumatic childhood; he displayed sociopathic behavior at a young age and was often teased by classmates. He was adopted as a child by an abusive alcoholic named Mr. Underwood, who teaches him how to torture animals and inflict pain on himself. Freddy eventually murders him, with no apparent consequences, and becomes a serial killer. The film also reveals that when Freddy reached adulthood, he married a woman named Loretta, with whom he fathered a daughter named Katherine. After the birth of his daughter, he tried to lead a normal life, but his murderous nature eventually overcame him, and he murdered 20 children on Elm Street between 1963 and 1966. He later murdered his wife after she discovered the evidence of his child killings, which Katherine witnessed. Freddy was arrested for the murder of his wife and the Elm Street children. In 1968, he was put on trial, but released on a technicality, leading to his death at the hands of the parents of his victims. In his dying moments, the Dream Demons came to him to offer him immortality in exchange for being their agent, which Freddy accepted. His daughter, Katherine, was later moved out of Springwood, adopted, and renamed Maggie Burroughs.
• In Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, Freddy is characterized as a symbol of something powerful and ancient, and is given more stature and muscles.^[18] Unlike the six movies before it, New Nightmare shows Freddy as closer to what Wes Craven originally intended, toning down his comedic side while strengthening the more menacing aspects of his character.

• The original script had Freddy’s blades being fishing knives.

• Throughout the series, Freddy’s potential victims often experience dreams of young children, implied to be some of his pre-death victims, jumping rope and chanting a rhyme to the tune of «One, Two, Buckle My Shoe» with the lyrics changed to «One, Two, Freddy’s coming for you», often as an omen to Freddy’s presence or a precursor to his attacks.

• Freddy has killed 45 victims onscreen.

• Freddy was ranked #1 in FX’s Horror magazine’s Top 20 Horror Villains list in 2010.

• Numerous Halloween costumes have been made based on Freddy.

• He is often referred to as Fred Krueger, rather than Freddy Krueger.

List of confirmed human victims of Freddy Krueger

Before the films

1. Mr. Underwood: Stabbed in the eye with a straight razor.
2. 20 Springwood Slasher child victims: Some killed by being burned, some killed by being stabbed, and some killed by having their eyes gouged out.
   1. Brook Yeaton
   2. Mike Becker
   3. Bobby Glass
   4. Little Girl (A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors film)
   5. Little Girl (Freddy vs. Jason film)
3. Loretta Krueger: Strangled.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984 film)

1. Tina Gray: Slashed with clawed glove in the dream world, killing her in the physical world.
2. Rod Lane: Hung with a blanket in the dream world, which appears to be a suicide in the physical world.
3. Glen Lantz: Pulled into his bed and shot upward in a fountain of blood while asleep.
4. Marge Thompson: Strangled and burned.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge

1. Coach Schneider: Slashed in the back 2 times with clawed glove.
2. Ron Grady: Stabbed with clawed glove.
3. Party Guest 1: Slashed in the face with clawed glove.
4. Party Guest 2: Fell into the boiling hot pool and burned.
5. Party Guest 3: Fell into the boiling hot pool and burned.
6. Party Guest 4: Burned.
7. Party Guest 5: Stabbed with clawed glove.
8. Do-Gooder: Thrown onto a grill and burned.
9. Kerry Hellman: Stabbed through the chest with clawed glove from inside.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

1. Phillip Anderson: Controlled like a puppet using his veins as strings, strings cut, then fell off the top of Westin Hills in the dream world, which appears to be a suicide in the physical world.
2. Jennifer Caulfield: Head smashed against a TV in the dream world, which appears to be another suicide in the physical world.
3. Taryn White: Injected in the dream world, killing her in the physical world.
4. Will Stanton: Stabbed with clawed glove in the dream world, killing him in the physical world.
5. Sgt. Donald Thompson: Impaled on a tail fin of a car.
6. Nancy Thompson: Stabbed with clawed glove in the dream world, killing her in the physical world.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

1. Roland Kincaid: Stabbed with clawed glove in the dream world, killing him in the real world.
2. Joey Crusel: Pulled into his waterbed and stabbed with clawed glove, drowning him.
3. Kristen Parker: Thrown into a furnace in the dream world, setting her on fire in the real world.
4. Sheila Kopecky: Kissed in the dream world, sucking the life out of her, which appears to be an asthma attack in the real world.
5. Rick Johnson: Stabbed with clawed glove in the dream world, killing him in the real world.
6. Debbie Stevens: Turned into a cockroach and crushed in a roach motel in the dream world, killing her in the real world.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

1. Dan Jordan: Fused with a motorcycle in the dream world, which caused him to crash in the real world.
2. Greta Gibson: Food stuffed into mouth and thrown into a fridge in the dream world, making her suffocate in the real world.
3. Mark Gray: Sucked into a comic book, then turned to paper and sliced to bits with clawed glove in the dream world, killing him in the real world.

Between The Dream Child and The Final Nightmare

1. Bobby Davis: Apparent suicide in a blood-filled bathtub. (referenced in Freddy vs. Jason)
2. Mrs. Campbell: Stabbed with clawed glove. (referenced in Freddy vs. Jason)

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare

1. Carlos Rodriguez: Head exploded caused by a chalkboard being scratched with clawed glove in the dream world, killing him in the real world.
2. Spencer Lewis: Sucked into a video game in the dream world, then knocked into a hole. In the real world, a hole physically appeared which he fell into.
3. John Doe: Lines of the parachute cut, causing him to fall onto the spikes which were placed below him.

Freddy vs. Jason

1. Mark Davis: Set on fire, then face slashed with clawed glove.

Animal victims

Before the films

1. Hamster: Killed with hammer.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge

1. Bird 1: Killed by Freddy and the other bird.
2. Bird 2: Set on fire, clearly having a nightmare and appearing to burst into flames.

Dream victims

A Nightmare on Elm Street

1. Marge Thompson: Pulled through a window.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

1. Zsa Zsa Gabor: Slashed in the face with clawed glove.
2. Elaine Parker: Decapitated with clawed glove (alive in the real world)

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare

1. Unnamed old woman: Sent up and out of the plane.
2. Unnamed commercial host: Bashed on the head with a frying pan.

Freddy vs. Jason

1. Unnamed camp counselor: Killed.

Debatable murders

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge

1. Jesse Walsh
2. Lisa Webber

References

External links

Other Wikis

• Freddy Krueger at the Antagonists wiki.
• Freddy Krueger at the Villains wiki.
• Freddy Krueger at the Horror Movies wiki.
• Freddy Krueger at the Friday the 13th wiki.
• Freddy Krueger at the Evil Dead wiki.
• Freddy Krueger at the Headhunter’s Horror House wiki.
• Freddy Krueger at the Freddy vs. Jason wiki.

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  Федеральная корпорация жилищного ипотечного кредита
  “Фредди Мак”
  Корпорация, созданная в США в 1970 г. для выкупа ипотек у ссудо-сберегательных ассоциаций (savings and loans associations) в целях продажи их на вторичном рынке. Держателем акционерного капитала Корпорации является Правление системы федеральных банков по кредитованию жилищного строительства (Federal Home Loan Bank Board), орган, регулирующий деятельность ссудо-сберегательных ассоциаций, созданных в 1930-х гг. для обеспечения ресурсами организаций, предоставляющих кредиты под залог недвижимого имущества. В рыночных отчетах Федеральную корпорацию жилищного ипотечного кредита обычно называют “Фредди Мак” (Freddie Mac).
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  Федеральная корпорация жилищного ипотечного кредита
  “Фредди Мак”
  Корпорация, созданная в США в 1970 г. для выкупа ипотек у ссудо-сберегательных ассоциаций (savings and loans associations) в целях продажи их на вторичном рынке. Держателем акционерного капитала Корпорации является Правление системы федеральных банков по кредитованию жилищного строительства (Federal Home Loan Bank Board), орган, регулирующий деятельность ссудо-сберегательных ассоциаций, созданных в 1930-х гг. для обеспечения ресурсами организаций, предоставляющих кредиты под залог недвижимого имущества. В рыночных отчетах Федеральную корпорацию жилищного ипотечного кредита обычно называют “Фредди Мак” (Freddie Mac).
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  Федеральная корпорация жилищного ипотечного кредита
  “Фредди Мак”
  Корпорация, созданная в США в 1970 г. для выкупа ипотек у ссудо-сберегательных ассоциаций (savings and loans associations) в целях продажи их на вторичном рынке. Держателем акционерного капитала Корпорации является Правление системы федеральных банков по кредитованию жилищного строительства (Federal Home Loan Bank Board), орган, регулирующий деятельность ссудо-сберегательных ассоциаций, созданных в 1930-х гг. для обеспечения ресурсами организаций, предоставляющих кредиты под залог недвижимого имущества. В рыночных отчетах Федеральную корпорацию жилищного ипотечного кредита обычно называют “Фредди Мак” (Freddie Mac).
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  Федеральная корпорация жилищного ипотечного кредита (ФХЛМК; «Фредди Мэк»): частная корпорация, спонсированная федеральными властями США; создана в 1970 г. как полугосударственное учреждение в рамках Федеральной системы банков жилищного кредита; поддерживает вторичный рынок обычных ипотек (не гарантированных государством) путем их скупки и выпускает ценные бумаги под обеспечение пулом ипотек (сертификаты ФХЛМК) для продажи частным инвесторам; в 1989 г. реорганизована в акционерное общество;

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RU	русский	EN	английский
	Фредди Крюгер		Freddy Krueger

RUENПереводы слова крюгер

Фредди Крюгер Freddy Krueger
Фредди Крюгер в исполнении Роберта Инглунда в оригинальной серии фильмов
Появление	Кошмар на улице Вязов (1984)
Исчезновение	Кошмар на улице Вязов (2010)
Информация
Прозвище	«Спрингвудский потрошитель» «Рубака из Спрингвуда»
Вид (раса)	человек призрак демон
Пол	мужской
Род занятий	сторож в котельной (оригинальная серия), садовник в детском саду (ремейк)
Семья	Аманда Крюгер (мать) Отец неизвестен (один из преступников, содержащихся в приюте)
Супруг(а)	Лоретта Крюгер
Дети	Мэгги Берроуз (урождённая Кэтрин Крюгер)
Отношения	Враги: Нэнси Томпсон Эш Уильямс Джесси Уолш Кристин Паркер Джейсон Вурхиз
Число эпизодов	9 фильмов + 44 эпизода сериала
Прототип	Бездомный, которого в детстве испугался Уэс Крэйвен
Создатель	Уэс Крэйвен
Исполнитель роли	Роберт Инглунд (1984-2003), Джеки Эрл Хейли (2010)

Фредерик «Фредди» Чарльз Крюгер (англ. Frederick «Freddy» Charles Krueger)^[1] — вымышленный маньяк-убийца^[2], главный отрицательный персонаж киносериала ужасов «Кошмар на улице Вязов»^[3]. Многими критиками признан культовым киноперсонажем^[4][5][6][7]. Впервые появляется в фильме Уэса Крэйвена «Кошмар на улице Вязов» 1984 года в образе мужчины с обгоревшим до мышц и костей лицом, в красном в тёмно-зелёную полоску свитере и коричневой шляпе^[3]. На правой руке носит перчатку с острыми металлическими лезвиями на кончиках пальцев. Может убивать людей в их же снах, но иногда прорывается и в реальный мир, где продолжает наводить страх и ужас^[1]. Во снах Крюгер практически неуязвим и может возрождаться после гибели. Когда Крюгер оказывается в реальном мире, он выглядит также, как до своей смерти^[8].

Персонажа создал режиссёр и сценарист Уэс Крэйвен^[9], а роль маньяка исполнил актёр Роберт Инглунд, сыгравший Крюгера в 8 фильмах и телевизионном сериале. В ремейке 2010 года его сыграл номинант на премию «Оскар» Джеки Эрл Хейли^[8].

Биография

До событий фильма

Мать Фредди Крюгера — монахиня по имени Аманда Крюгер^[3], взявшая имя сестра Мэри Хелена, — будучи молодой девушкой, работала в приюте для душевнобольных. Однажды её случайно заперли в башне, где содержались сотни сумасшедших маньяков. Они спрятали Аманду и насиловали в течение нескольких недель, а когда её нашли, выяснилось, что она беременна^[10]. После рождения ребёнка, названного Фредериком, Аманда сходит с ума, и мальчика сначала отдают в сиротский дом, а затем находят приёмную семью, где он терпел побои от своего отчима-алкоголика, мистера Андервуда. В возрасте 18 лет мальчик убивает Андервуда, но из-за недостатка улик Фред не несёт ответственности за его смерть. Отношения с одноклассниками также не сложились — Фредди был изгоем^[3], в школе мальчика дразнили, называя «выродком от сотни маньяков» (англ. Bastard Son Of A Hundred Maniacs).

Следующий показанный в фильмах период — семейная жизнь. Он женился на женщине по имени Лоретта, и у него родилась дочь Кэтрин^[11]. О том, как зародились садистские наклонности Крюгера, также ничего точно не известно (кроме эпизода из школьной жизни, в котором Фредди достаёт грызуна из клетки школьного зооуголка и убивает животное большим молотком)^[12]. Вскоре Крюгер начинает похищать и убивать детей — его жертвами становятся малыши, проживающие на улице Вязов^[13]. Лоретта понимает, что её муж и есть маньяк, и женщина становится следующей жертвой Крюгера: Фредди убивает мать прямо на глазах у маленькой Кэтрин. Местные власти начинают подозревать Крюгера в причастности к убийствам и забирают Кэтрин в детский приют, лишив Крюгера родительских прав. В итоге Фреда арестовывают, а его мать, по слухам, покончила с собой, повесившись в одной из башен психиатрической больницы Уэстен-Хиллс вскоре после суда над сыном^[14].

История закончилась трагически — власти вычислили Крюгера, но из-за формальной ошибки его отпустили. Тогда разъярённые родители убитых им детей нашли его в котельной, где он работал сторожем, и заживо сожгли^[3]. Перед смертью Фредди явились Демоны снов (англ. Dream Demons). Они предложили ему сделку — Крюгер отдаст им свою душу, а они взамен даруют Фредди новую жизнь^[12]. Что было с Крюгером с того момента, как он умер, и до воскрешения в царстве снов и сколько именно времени прошло, в фильмах никогда не упоминается, хотя у первой картины есть удалённая сцена, в которой Мардж, мать героини по имени Нэнси, разговаривает со своим бывшим мужем, лейтенантом Томпсоном, вспоминая события «10-летней давности»^[15]. Кроме того, в книге «Фредди против Джейсона» — новелизации фильма, написанной Стивеном Хэндом — говорится, что арест и убийство Крюгера произошли в 1966 году^[16].

Фильмы

С тех пор Фредди является своим жертвам во снах. Теперь он стал ещё опаснее, потому что он неуязвим, и остановить его практически невозможно. Крюгер питается страхом, а потом и душами детей^[17] — поэтому, прежде чем убить жертву, Крюгер причиняет ей страдания, воплощая в жизнь её индивидуальные фобии.

Действие первого фильма «Кошмар на улице Вязов» происходит в 1981 году — Фредди начал преследовать Нэнси Томпсон и её друзей — Тину, Рода и Глена, так как их родители были в группе убивших Фредди много лет назад. В конце фильма Крюгер убивает мать Нэнси и всех её друзей. Нэнси удаётся справиться с беспокойным духом и остановить его, но лишь на время^[18].

Спустя пять лет в фильме «Месть Фредди» Крюгер вселяется в тело Джесси Уолша — юноши, переехавшего вместе со своей семьёй в дом № 1428 на улице Вязов, где ранее жила Нэнси, героиня первой части. С помощью мальчика Фредди появляется в реальности и убивает учителя физкультуры, друга Джесси, Грейди, и ребят на вечеринке, устроенной его подругой Лизой. В конце концов Лизе удаётся помочь Джесси изгнать из его тела Крюгера^[19]. Однако неоднозначный финал оставляет неизвестной судьбу Джесси и Лизы.

Через несколько лет Крюгер встречается с повзрослевшей Нэнси в третьей серии под названием «Воины сна». Нэнси, выпускница колледжа, устраивается на работу в местную психиатрическую больницу Уэстен-Хиллс, в которой находятся подростки, переживающие последствия ночных встреч с Крюгером. Заручившись поддержкой штатного психолога Нила Гордона, Нэнси пытается найти способ покончить с маньяком раз и навсегда. В процессе выясняются подробности рождения Фредди, и призрак его матери, монахини Мэри Хелены, подсказывает, как упокоить душу убийцы. В финале картины, перед своей смертью, Крюгер убивает Нэнси^[20].

В следующей части — «Повелитель снов» — спустя год бывшим пациентам психиатрической лечебницы Кристин, Джоуи и Кинкейду предстоит вновь столкнуться с тем, кто преследовал их в кошмарах. Они становятся последними жертвами, чьи родители сожгли Крюгера много лет назад. Теперь их друзьям необходимо научиться противостоять маньяку из снов. Крюгер находит сильного противника в лице девушки Элис, которой удаётся высвободить души убитых детей, разорвавших Крюгера изнутри^[21].

Спустя ещё один год в пятом фильме «Дитя сна» после окончания школы погибает Дэн — парень Элис. Девушка узнаёт, что беременна, а Фредди вновь находит способ вернуться — с помощью снов её неродившегося сына. Люди вновь начинают гибнуть. Но Элис удаётся спасти себя и своего ребёнка^[22].

На протяжении довольно длительного промежутка времени Фредди удалось убить практически всех детей и подростков города. В шестой части «Фредди мёртв: Последний кошмар» юноша, которого власти нарекли именем Джон Доу, последний оставшийся в живых, пытается спастись из кровавого Спрингвуда и попадает с амнезией в соседний городок. Там он встречает Мэгги — социального работника — и её подопечных. Чтобы помочь Джону вспомнить, кто он, Мэгги с ребятами приезжает в Спрингвуд. Там она узнаёт страшную правду о своём прошлом — она и есть дочь известного маньяка Фредди Крюгера, прозванного «Рубакой из Спрингвуда». Тем временем Крюгер убивает Джона и ещё нескольких ребят. Мэгги узнаёт подробности жизни и смерти отца, а также детали сделки Крюгера с Демонами снов, что позволяет ей, наконец, отправить Фредди в Ад^[23].

Так как предполагалось, что шестой фильм станет последним, авторы решили возродить популярного героя оригинальным способом — в фильме «Новый кошмар Уэса Крэйвена» они перенесли действие на съёмочную площадку сериала, где Фредди Крюгер «сходит с экрана» и начинает преследовать семью актрисы Хизер Ландженкамп, сыгравшей Нэнси Томпсон в двух фильмах^[24]. Режиссёр и сценарист Уэс Крэйвен мечтал снять такой фильм уже давно, и позже он вновь воплотил идею в своих фильмах «Крик 2» и «Крик 3». Хизер Ландженкамп сыграла саму себя, как и многие актёры сериала, появившиеся в эпизодах, — Хсу Гарсиа (роль Рода Лейна), Тъюсдэй Найт (роль Кристин Паркер), а также сам Уэс Крэйвен, глава компании Роберт Шэй и исполнительный продюсер Сара Ришер. Других героев — вымышленного сына актрисы Дилана (Мико Хьюз) и мужа Чейза (Дэвид Ньюсом) — сыграли актёры, никакими родственными узами не связанные с Хизер^[24]. Имя Фредди Крюгера появляется в титрах с пометкой «исполнил роль самого себя» наравне с актёром Робертом Инглундом, бессменным — вплоть до 2010 года — исполнителем роли Крюгера^[25]. В ходе развития сюжета выясняется, что кошмары преследуют Крэйвена давно, а сам Фредди есть ничто иное, как воплощение вселенского зла, с которым может справиться только Хизер, в последний раз «сыграв роль» Нэнси^[26]. Крюгеру обновили грим и перчатку, а также вернулись к первоначальной концепции персонажа, сделав его более жестоким, молчаливым и устрашающим.

В кроссовере «Фредди против Джейсона» взрослое население Спрингвуда прячет любую информацию о Крюгере, чтобы никто из подростков не смог узнать о его существовании. А тех, кто знает правду о Крюгере, отправили на принудительное лечение в психиатрическую лечебницу, где подросткам прописывают экспериментальный препарат под названием «Гипноцил» (англ. Hypnocil), употребляя который, дети перестают видеть сны^[27]. Фредди находит способ вернуться, являясь молчаливому маньяку Джейсону в образе его убитой матери Памелы Вурхиз, а затем направляет в Спрингвуд, чтобы напомнить детям города о себе. Но всё выходит из-под контроля, когда Вурхиз понимает, что Крюгер использовал его. Между двумя жестокими маньяками начинается кровавая битва — она начинается на улице Вязов, а заканчивается на берегу Хрустального озера. Джейсон поднимается из его вод с головой Фредди. Перед самыми титрами Фредди успевает «хитро подмигнуть» — это даёт понять, что борьба с «маньяком с улицы Вязов» ещё не закончена^[28].

В 2010 году на мировые экраны выходит ремейк первого фильма, «Кошмар на улице Вязов»^[29], главную роль в котором исполнил Джеки Эрл Хейли^[30]. В новой версии история начинается в начале 90-х годов, когда Фред Крюгер работал в детском саду города Спрингвуд. Он сексуально растлил нескольких детей, которые рассказали о случившемся родителям. Когда полиция не смогла найти Крюгера, родители сами выслеживают его и сжигают заживо в котельной, где он прятался. Основное действие происходит в наши дни, где повзрослевшие герои начинают видеть в своих снах Крюгера, а затем погибать таинственным образом. Нэнси Холбрук и Квентин Смит начинают искать причину загадочных смертей. В конце концов им удаётся вспомнить, что они ходили в тот самый детсад. Тогда Нэнси засыпает и вытягивает Крюгера в реальный мир, где герои вновь сжигают маньяка. Вернувшись из больницы вместе с матерью, Нэнси видит в зеркале Крюгера, который хватает женщину и затягивает её прямо сквозь стекло в неизвестность^[31].

Телевидение

Инглунд вновь исполнил роль Крюгера в сериале «Кошмары Фредди», премьера которого состоялась 9 октября 1988 года. Аналогично структуре сериала «Байки из склепа»^[32], Фредди Крюгер выступает в роли ведущего сериала, появляясь в начале и конце эпизода, хотя иногда сам Крюгер является героем эпизода. Сериал продержался два сезона, и в эфир вышло 44 серии^[3] — показ закончился 10 марта 1990 года^[33].

Эпизод «No More Mr. Nice Guy» показывает события, лишь упомянутые в фильмах, — суд над Крюгером, оправдательный приговор, самосуд^[32]. По версии сериала, Крюгера отпустили по той формальности, что офицер Тим Блокер, проводивший задержание, не зачитал Крюгеру его права, тем самым нарушив так называемое «правило Миранды», хотя в фильмах было сказано, что «кто-то не поставил нужные подписи на ордере на обыск». Кроме того, в эпизоде говорится, что Крюгер управлял фургончиком по продаже мороженого, тем самым завлекая детей, похищая их, а затем убивая. После смерти переродившийся дух Крюгера начинает преследовать офицера Блокера, в конце концов убивая его^[34]. Эпизод «Sister’s Keeper» является сиквелом пилота, в котором Крюгер терроризирует дочерей Блокера, сестёр-близняшек. В итоге он подстраивает всё так, что одну из сестёр считают виновной в убийстве другой^[34]. Хотя серия является продолжением первого эпизода, она была седьмой по счёту в сезоне^[35]. Эпизод «It’s My Party & You’ll Die If I Want To» второго сезона рассказывает о том, как Крюгер напал на своих бывших одноклассников на встрече выпускников через 20 лет^[36].

Комиксы

За несколько десятилетий было выпущено множество комиксов, опубликованных такими крупными комикс-издательствами, как «Marvel»^[37], «Innovaion Publishing»^[38], «Avatar»^[39] и «WildStorm»^[40]. События, показанные в большинстве серий, не считаются каноничными, так как сюжеты были придуманы без участия сценаристов и авторов киносериала. Кроме того, большинство событий являются противоречивыми.

К примеру, история рассказывается в первой комикс-серии «Freddy Krueger’s A Nightmare On Elm Street» издательства Marvel Comics: в 1947 году ребёнок был усыновлён четой Странк, но прожил в их доме менее 24 часов, так как в дом забрались грабители и убили обоих родителей — «казалось, даже в младенчестве Фредерик привлекал насилие». Нападавшие забрали ребёнка и продали его неким Уолтеру Финглу (англ. Walter Fingle) и Изабелле Тронт (англ. Isabel Tront) — сутенёру и проститутке соответственно — «Остаётся неизвестным, зачем им понадобился ребёнок, возможно — ввиду некоего извращённого семейного инстинкта, возможно — для чего-то похуже». В возрасте шести лет начал участвовать в «семейном бизнесе», привлекая клиентов.

Затем права на публикацию переходят к издательству «Innoation Publishing», которое выпускат три серии комиксов — адаптацию фильма «Фредди мёртв. Последний кошмар»; продолжение шестого фильма под названием «Кошмар на улице Вязов: Начало», а также серию «Кошмары на улицы Вязов», которая связывает пятый и шестой фильмы, показав, как постепенно кровожадные деяния Крюгера опустошают город Спрингвуд. В этой серии, в борьбе с Фредди объединяются многие герои разных частей сериал, но, ключевым, по-прежнему, остаётся противостояние Крюгера и Нэнси Томпсон, ставшей добрым хранителем мира сновидений под названием «Прекрасный сон» — теперь душа Ненси обитает там, защищая души людей, уязвимых перед Крюгером.

После выхода фильма «Фредди против Джейсона» руководство New Line Cinema было готово воплотить в жизнь идею нового кроссовера, в котором Фредди и Джейсон встретились бы с ещё одним культовым персонажем в жанре хоррора. Проект долгое время находился на стадии разработки из-за затянувшейся забастовки сценаристов^[41], и в итоге боссы решили привлечь в сериал о Крюгере Эша Уильямса, героя трилогии «Зловещие мертвецы»^[42]. Из-за ряда причин, включающих решение студии о перезапуске франшиз «Кошмар на улице Вязов» и «Пятница, 13», фильм так и не был снят^[43]. В итоге проект нашёл воплощение в виде мини-серии комиксов под названием «Фредди и Джейсон против Эша» от издательства «WildStorm». В этой истории герои ведут борьбу за легендарную Книгу мёртвых — Некрономикон^[44].

Кроме того, издательство выпустило небольшую серию комиксов, где Крюгер преследует группу подростков уже после событий фильма «Фредди против Джейсона», когда Спрингвуд вновь расцвёл. В этих комиксах Крюгер представлен вернувшим себе силы демоном снов, который однако сталкивается с сильным соперником в лице маленькой девочки, которой удаётся водить Крюгера за нос. Кроме того, подростки прибегают к помощи древнего демона, который сможет защитить их от Крюгера, если принести ему жертву.

В комиксе-сиквеле «Фредди и Джейсон против Эша: Воины ночных кошмаров» показана дальнейшая судьба дочери Крюгера, Кэтрин. Согласно версии авторов, Фредди удалось сломить дочь морально (или же подчинить её разум), и женщина начинает помогать отцу. В одной из сцен Мэгги, одетая в вызывающий костюм, дарит своему отцу страстный поцелуй. В фильмах никогда не упоминалось о сексуальной связи Крюгера со своей малолетней дочерью, как и тот факт, что Крюгер был педофилом, хотя так и было задумано в первоначальной версии сценария Уэса Крэйвена^[45].

Компьютерные игры

Впервые персонаж Крюгера появился в двух компьютерных играх, разработанных компаниям «LJN»^[46] и «Monarch»^[47] в 1990 и 1989 годах соответственно. У версии для системы Nintendo Entertainment System отсутствовал чёткий сюжет, и развитие событий в игре следовало концепции фильмов — игрок должен выполнить миссию, не заснув как можно дольше, а оказавшись в царстве сновидений, должен выжить при встрече с Крюгером. На одном из уровней Фредди-босс принимает змееподобный вид, напоминающий одно из его обличий в фильме «Кошмар на улице Вязов 3: Воины сна».

В 2005 году компания «FAKT software» выпустила игру «A Nightmare On Elm Street» для мобильных телефонов, в которой главным злодеем также был Крюгер^[48], — на протяжении игры он появляется в своём обычном виде — как человек со сгоревшей кожей, шляпой с широкими полями, в полосатом свитере и с перчаткой на руке.

Также Фредди стал персонажем компьютерной игры «Terrordrome: Rise Of A Boogeyman»^[49] — это игра в жанре файтинг, созданная усилиями поклонников фильмов ужасов: все главные герои — отрицательные персонажи культовых фильмов ужасов, среди которых Джейсон Вурхиз, Майкл Майерс, Кожаное лицо, Эш Уильямс, Призрачное лицо и другие^[49]. Появление сюжета игры было заявлено на официальном сайте, но он до сих пор так и не был опубликован^[50].

22 июля 2011 года стало известно, что Крюгер будет добавлен в новую игру «Mortal Kombat» в качестве загружаемого DLC-персонажа. Вместе с тем была опубликована его биография для этой игры: «Злой дух Царства Снов, Фредди Крюгер охотится на души живых, пока те спят. Когда Шао Кан при вторжении начал красть души Земного Царства — которые Фредди считал своими личными — Фредди сразился с императором в Царстве Снов. Но воля Шао Кана была слишком сильна. Он вытащил Фредди в реальный мир, где тот стал смертным, и победил его. Сильно раненый, но по-прежнему непоколебимый Фредди надел на свои руки две демонически усовершенствованные перчатки с лезвиями. Как только он убьёт Шао Кана, Крюгер найдёт дорогу обратно в Царство Снов, где он будет мучить души Земного Царства вечно»^[51]. В отличие от оригинала, в игре у Фредди перчатки на обеих руках, а не одной^[52].

Образ героя

Концепция

По словам Крэйвена, на создание персонажа его вдохновили истории, опубликованные в журнале «Los Angeles Times», — в них рассказывалось о серии таинственных смертей, случившихся во время сна^[53], — до этого всех жертв преследовали страшные ночные кошмары^[54]. В конце 1970-х годов в США начали прибывать беженцы из Камбоджи, в которой премьер-министр Пол Пот за 4 года правления уничтожил несколько миллионов своих подданных. Некоторые дети иммигрантов не могли спать — им снились «красные кхмеры». Несмотря на лечения, они умирали от нервного и физического истощения^[55]. Кроме того, в начальной версии сценария Крэйвена Крюгер был педофилом, так как, по словам автора, «это самое мерзкое, что может совершить человек». Однако во время съёмок фильма «шумели» дела о педофилах Калифорнии, и было решено отказаться от этой идеи, дабы студию не обвинили в «эксплуатации темы»^[56].

Уэс Крэйвен дал Крюгеру его имя в честь хулигана, который часто избивал будущего сценариста. Кроме того, неизгладимое впечатление на мальчика произвела песня «Dream Weaver» из репертуара Гари Уайта, а также встреча с бездомным мужчиной в возрасте одиннадцати лет. В одном из интервью Крэйвен рассказал эту историю: «Я услышал какой-то шум и выглянул в окно — внизу я увидел мужчину, который бродил по двору. Должно быть, он почувствовал, что за ним наблюдают, и он посмотрел прямо на меня. Он до смерти напугал меня, поэтому я отошёл от окна. Однако он не только не перестал на меня смотреть, но и сделал несколько шагов к дому и сказал: «Да, я всё ещё наблюдаю за тобой». Тогда он подошёл к подъезду, а я побежал к входной двери и услышал, как он поднимается по лестнице. Мой брат, который старше меня на 10 лет, схватил бейсбольную биту и вышел на лестницу, но мужчины уже не было»^[57].

Образ Фредди Крюгера претерпел значительные перемены за те годы, которые он существует. Первоначально продюсеры хотели, чтобы Крюгер был обычным молчаливым маньяком-громилой, наподобие Джейсона Вурхиза и Майкла Майерса. Однако создатель образа, Уэс Крэйвен, предложил развить персонаж, в нескольких сценах позволив ему высказать пугающие по своей жестокости фразы. Тем не менее, в герое оставалась загадочность, так как зрители немного знали о прошлом героя, кто он и откуда. А в сценах с ним использовался слабый свет, не дающий возможности разглядеть пристально лицо Крюгера.

Уже в третьей части, «Воины сновидений», можно заметить перемены — в сравнении с первыми двумя сериями у Крюгера появилось куда больше слов, и сцены с ним довольно ярко освещены^[58]. Этой политики в развитии персонажа продюсеры придерживались до создания четвёртой части «Повелитель снов», где Крюгер показан как довольно вальяжный персонаж, часто отпускающий жестокие шутки.

В фильме «Новый кошмар Уэса Крэйвена» Крюгер стал символом чего-то более мощного и древнего, у героя появилась атлетическая фигура и объёмные мышцы^[59]. В отличие от шести предыдущих картин, Крюгер изображён более близким к оригинальной задумке Крэйвена — у него отсутствует комедийная сторона, герой изображён более опасным и пугающим^[58].

Внешний вид

Внешний вид персонажа на протяжении всех фильмов оставался неизменным, хотя во время работы над каждой частью в грим вносились незначительные изменения. Герой носит полосатый красно-зелёный свитер (с тёмно-красными рукавами в первой части и красно-зелёными, начиная со второй)^[58], тёмную серую фетровую шляпу с широкими полями, свободные тёмные штаны (которые в оригинальной картине были коричневатого цвета), а также ботинки, которые обычно носят представители рабочего класса на своих рабочих местах. Крэйвен одел персонажа в красно-зеленый свитер, купленный на распродаже, потому что однажды читал, будто бы сочетание этих цветов воспринимается глазом хуже всего^[60][55]. На руке присутствует фирменная самодельная перчатка с лезвиями, прикреплёнными вдоль пальцев. Его кожа практически на всём теле сожжена — поверхность её в шрамах и рубцах, соответственно ни на голове, ни на теле нет волос. Примечательно, что в одной из сцен первого фильма, когда Крюгер разрезает свою грудь, видно, что туловище его практически не пострадало от ожогов^[58]. Также у персонажа больные зубы — на протяжении первых трёх картин у Крюгера коричневые гнилые зубы, а в четвёртой картине практически отсутствуют. В «Фредди против Джейсона» Фредди изображён с острыми зубами, больше похожими на толстые клыки, что придало персонажу более монструозный, а не человеческий вид. Кроме того, в финальных сценах фильма изменена форма ушей и подбородка — они стали более заострёнными^[58].

У него тёмная кровь, маслянистой консистенции, а в мире снов она имеет зелёный цвет. В первом фильме персонаж практически всё время находится в тени, что позволяет казаться ему выше, чем он есть на самом деле. В фильме «Месть Фредди» в сцене у бассейна Крюгер показан без перчатки, а лезвия торчат прямо из его пальцев. С развитием сериала и персонажа авторы хотели показать, что персонаж обладает острым чувством «чёрного юмора», и чтобы подчеркнуть это, периодически одевали его в разнообразные костюмы — официанта на званом ужине или супергероя с плащом во сне юноши, поклонника комиксов. Кроме того, Крюгер часто менял свою форму, превращаясь то в марионетку, то в мастера кукол, гигантского змееподобного червя, персонажа видеоигры или в чудовищную сороконожку, курящую марихуану^[58].

Для фильма «Новый кошмар» грим вновь был изменён, а также были добавлены кое-какие элементы в гардероб персонажа^[61]. Шляпа персонажа стала тёмно-зелёной, более сочетающейся с его свитером, цвет которого также изменился, став немного светлее^[58]. Крюгер стал носить обтягивающие кожаные штаны, чёрные бутсы с высокой стойкой, у свитера появился более узкий воротник, а также на персонажа надели тёмно-синее французское пальто, а на перчатке появилось пятое лезвие, в то время как сама она стала иметь гораздо более естественный вид, имитируя кости и жилы на верхней стороне^[58]. Также на лице Крюгера стало меньше ожогов, обнажая тем самым сплетение мускулов.

Перчатка

По словам Уэса Крэйвена, одни из главных источников вдохновения при создании перчатки стал его кот — однажды режиссёр увидел, как он своими когтями прорезал обивку дивана^[62].

В одном из интервью Крэйвен сказал: «Одной из главных целей было создать запоминающегося персонажа — у каждого успешного героя есть своё уникальное оружие — бензопила, мачете и т. д. Кроме того, я искал нечто, чего можно было бы бояться на первобытном уровне независимо от того, из какой страны будут зрители. Среди подобных страхов — сломать зубы, что я и использовал в своём первом фильме. Другой — когти животного, как у саблезубого тигра, сверкающего своими пугающими крюками. Я переместил их на человеческую руку. В первоначальном сценарии вместо ножей на руке были рыболовные крюки»^[63].

Когда Джим Дойл, автор легендарной перчатки, спросил Крэйвена, каким он хочет видеть это оружие, то получил ответ: «Как будто это слишком длинные ногти… Я хочу, чтобы перчатка выглядела так, будто её сделал обычный сварщик»^[62]. Дойл говорит: «Затем мы начали поиск ножей. И мы нашли эти пугающие ножи для мяса — нам показалось, что они смотрелись очень классно. А ещё мы подумали, что будет круче, если мы закрепим их лезвиями кверху». Дойл также добавил, что были сделаны 3 копии, две из которых использовались в продолжительных сценах, так как они были бутафорскими^[62]. Оригинальная перчатка Фредди, служившая ему оружием в первых двух картинах, — в настоящий момент утрачена^[55].

В «Новом кошмаре» Лу Карлуччи модифицировал перчатку, добавляя ей новизны. «Я участвовал в создании оригинальной перчатки — я знаю, какой её хотели видеть: сделанной самостоятельно в домашней мастерской. Так как для Фредди предполагалась новая внешность, то Уэс и все, кто был с этим связан, решили, что и перчатка должна отличаться. На ней появились мышцы и кости, лезвие тоньше и подвижней. Перчатка выглядит чище и естественней — будто это продолжение руки, нежели перчатка»^[64]. Кроме того, на новой перчатке появилось пять лезвий^[58].

Перчатка Фредди появилась в хорроре «Зловещие мертвецы 2» 1987 года^[3] — она висит над дверью на стенке с инструментами. Это был ответный жест Сэма Рэйми Уэсу Крэйвену, который использовал фрагмент фильма «Зловещие мертвецы» в первом «Кошмаре на улице Вязов» — Нэнси Томпсон смотрит фильм, чтобы не уснуть, что, в свою очередь, также было отсылкой к творчеству Рэйми — постер фильма «У холмов есть глаза» 1977 года можно увидеть в «Зловещих мертвецах». Перчатка также появляется в фильме «Невеста Чаки» среди улик в полицейском участке, где хранятся останки куклы-маньяка Чаки. Также там можно увидеть бензопилу Кожаного лица из фильма «Техасская резня бензопилой» и маски Майкла Майерса из фильмов серии «Хэллоуин» и Джейсона Вурхиза из фильмов «Пятница, 13».

Перчатка Крюгера на мгновение появляется в фильме «Последняя пятница. Джейсон отправляется в ад» — она затаскивает в землю хоккейную маску Джейсона Вурхиза (его сыграл каскадёр Кейн Ходдер) из не менее популярного сериала ужасов «Пятница, 13», убитого в этой части агентами ФБР, — сцена является вступлением к следующему фильму, где происходит встреча двух маньяков в Аду^[65].

Считалочка

На протяжении всего сериала большинство персонажей-подростков видит в своих снах группу маленьких детей, беззаботно играющих и напевающих считалочку, которая является своего рода знамением, указывающим на приближение Крюгера^[66][1]. Существует множество вариантов перевода песенки на русский язык, использующихся в различных переводах фильмов серии. Во всех сериях фильма, кроме 5 части, звучала одна и та же версия. В картине «Дитя сна» была изменена последняя строчка: «Nine, Ten, He’s Back Again!», что канал ТВ-6 перевёл как «Девять, десять — он опять вернулся, дети…».

Текст считалки: One, Two, Freddy’s coming for you, Three, Four, better lock your door, Five, Six, grab your crucifix, Seven, Eight, gonna stay up late, Nine, Ten, never sleep again…[3]

Дословный перевод: Раз, два, Фредди идёт за тобой! Три, четыре, лучше дверь закрой! Пять, шесть, хватай своё распятие! Семь, восемь, не засыпай допоздна! Девять, десять, больше не спи никогда.

Исполнители роли

Начиная с 1984 года, когда на киноэкраны вышел первый фильм «Кошмар на улице Вязов», роль Фредди Крюгера исполнял актёр Роберт Инглунд. С 1985 по 1988 годы он сыграл в трёх продолжениях картины — «Кошмар на улице Вязов 2: Месть Фредди», «Кошмар на улице Вязов 3: Воины сна» и «Кошмар на улице Вязов 4: Повелитель сна». 9 октября 1988 года на телеэкраны США выходит сериал-антология под названием «Кошмары Фредди», где Инглунд играл свою знаменитую роль на протяжении двух телесезонов вплоть до окончания шоу 12 марта 1990 года — за это время в эфир вышло 44-минутных (без учёта рекламы) эпизода^[67].

В 1989 году выходит пятый фильм «Кошмар на улице Вязов 5: Дитя сна», где, кроме Роберта Инглунда, в одном из эпизодов Супер-Фредди сыграл актёр и бодибилдер Майкл Бэйли Смит^[68]. В картине 1991 года — «Фредди мёртв. Последний кошмар» — Крюгера сыграли ещё два молодых актёра, Чейсон Ширмер (Крюгер в детстве) и Тоуб Секстон (Крюгер-подросток)^[69]. В картине «Новый кошмар Уэса Крэйвена» Инглунд сыграл Фредди, а также появился без грима — в титрах картины указано, что и Инглунд, и Фредди Крюгер сыграли самих себя. Последнее кинопоявление Инглунда в роли Крюгера состоялось в фильме «Фредди против Джейсона»^[67].

Кроме того, в рамках промо-кампаний картин о Крюгере актёр снялся в нескольких музыкальных клипах — «Are You Ready For Freddy?» и «Dream Warriors» — и ряде рекламных роликов. Также в 1988 году был выпущен промо-альбом «Freddy’s Greatest Hits» в исполнении музыкального коллектива The Elm Street Group — для альбома было записано девять известных композиций в новой аранжировке^[70]. Треки содержали вокал и монологи Роберта Инглунда в роли Фредди Крюгера — голос был записан специально для данного альбома.

В 1988 и 1990 годах актёр номинировался на премию «Сатурн» в категории «Лучший актёр второго плана» за исполнение роли Крюгера в фильмах «Кошмар на улице Вязов 3: Воины сна» и «Кошмар на улице Вязов 4: Повелитель сна» соответственно. Также в 2004 году занял второе место в списке лучших актёров по мнению журнала «Fangoria» за роль Крюгера в фильме «Фредди против Джейсона»^[71].

После выхода ремейка фильма «Пятница, 13» в 2009 году студия Platinum Dunes начала съёмки новой версии «Кошмара на улице Вязов»^[72]. Многие информационные ресурсы утверждали, что роль Крюгера исполнит Билли Боб Торнтон^[73] — позже продюсеры подтвердили, что это лишь слухи. В итоге роль досталась актёру Джеки Эрлу Хейли^[74], известному по ролям в фильмах «Хранители» и «Как малые дети». В последней картине он также сыграл растлителя малолетних^[75].

Реакция

Критика

Саймон Браунд из журнала «Empire» написал: «Крюгера делает таким страшным тот факт, что он не обычный кино-маньяк, а повелитель царства ночных кошмаров!»^[76]. «Фредди Крюгер в исполнении Роберта Инглунда полон энергии и юмора!» — отрывок из сборника рецензий «Киногид журнала TV Guide»^[77]. Сайт Retrojunk назвал Крюгера «воплощением всего хорошего, что было в жанре ужасов 1980-х годов… Запоминающийся злодей, которого многие зрители боялись на протяжении нескольких десятилетий!… Глубокий, безумный голос и нездоровый юмор… Просто классика»^[78]. «Фредди Крюгер продолжает с успехом пугать людей всех возрастов последние 25 лет после своего первого появления на экранах»^[79]. Джой Пьемонт характеризовал Крюгера как остроумного, хромого стендап-комика с убогим чувством моды, который носит свитер и шляпу каждый день. Однако его склонность нападать на подростков, по мнению критика, придаёт ему демонические черты^[80]. Фред Атэвелл, обозреватель газеты «The Guardian» назвал Крюгера страшнейшим монстром из фильмов-слэшеров^[81].

Рецензент журнала «Мир фантастики» заявлял, что главной находкой фильма «Кошмар на улице Вязов» был сам Фредди. В отличие от иных серийных убийц из кинофильмов, которые носили маски, у Фредди было безобразное, но человеческое лицо. Он не был немым, а любил поговорить с жертвой, демонстрируя своё чувство юмора и получая удовольствие от расправы. Фредди характеризовался критиком как харизматичный и интересный маньяк, который проявлял изобретательность в убийствах «лишь из любви к искусству». Также было отмечено и исполнение Инглунда — актёру нравился созданный образ, поэтому ему удалось создать чем-то симпатичное чудовище^[55]. Крюгер был назван самым зловещим и харизматичным убийцей 20 века^[82].

Джеймс Берардинелли посчитал, что одним из самых узнаваемых современных злодеев в жанре хоррор является покрытый гротескными шрамами Фредди Крюгер. Критик писал, что образ персонажа популярен среди костюмов на Хэллоуин наравне с Джейсоном и Майклом Майерсом. Однако в отличие от своих «коллег» Фредди проявляет черты личности. Крюгер — садист, обладающий чувством юмора, чьи эмоции и мимика не роботизированы^[83].

Признание

Журнал «Wizard» поместил Крюгера на 14-ю строчку своего списка лучших злодеев всех времён^[84], британский канал «Sky2» поместил его на 8-е место^[85], Американский институт киноискусства присвоил ему 40-е место в списке «Ста лучших героев и злодеев по версии AFI», а издание Entertainment Weekly поставило его 7 место из списка самых подлых злодеев из кинофильмов^[86][87]. Также персонаж оказался на 5-м месте в списке «50 величайших злодеев и героев» журнала «Total Film»^[88]. В 2010 году Фредди номинировался на Scream Awards как «Лучший злодей года»^[89]. Журнал «Premiere» поместил Крюгера на 51 место в списке «100 величайших киногероев всех времён»^[90]. Сайт Yahoo! Movies поместил Фредди на первое место в своём списке «13 злодеев-икон в жанре ужасов»^[79]. Согласно опросу о самой страшной сцене в мировом кино, проведенному четвертым каналом британского телевидения, появление Фредди Крюгера в первой части франшизы занимает 10 место^[91]. Крюгер занял 7 место в рейтинге самых страшных кинозлодеев в истории американского кино по версии ресурса Only-movies.com^[92].

Оценка психологов

После первого появления Фредди Крюгера на экранах персонаж стал предметом для обсуждения среди психологов. Некоторые из них утверждают, что Крюгер и его способы убийств отражают детский страх перед взрослением, а также всевозможные подростковые комплексы^[93].

Основным источником ненависти к детям стал невероятный стресс, который испытал Крюгер в детстве, когда к нему невероятно жестоко относились одноклассники, называвшие его «ублюдком от сотни маньяков». Однако, согласно науке о генетической наследственности, Крюгер не мог вобрать черты всех своих отцов в результате оплодотворения и соответственно унаследовал не психическое заболевание, а склонность к нему — следовательно, дальнейшее расстройство стало следствием отношения к Фредди-ребёнку^[93].

Окончательный диагноз звучал бы как:

Сексопатология в форме садизма. Такая патология личности отнюдь не уникальна, да и редкой её назвать тоже нельзя. Сексуальные садисты были и среди педофилов (очевидно, что и герой Крэйвена имел латентную склонность к педофилии), и среди самых массовых маньяков XX века. Развитию болезни способствовали и сложные отношения с матерью, которая вряд ли могла нормально воспринимать ребенка, зная тайну его рожденья, и глубокое презрение других детей, узнавших эту тайну. Ещё до своей демонизации Фредди Крюгер проявил все черты, характерные для психопатов указанного типа: вменяемость и осознанность совершаемого, холодный расчёт и изощрённая жестокость. И это позволяет поставить вымышленного героя по психическим особенностям в один ряд с личностями вроде Зодиака, Кемпера или Чикатило^[93].

Также некоторые критики и психологи считают, что в фильме «Кошмар на улице Вязов 2: Месть Фредди» Крюгер воплотил страх главного героя — Джесси Уолша в исполнении Марка Паттона — перед процессом каминг-аута и осознанием себя гомосексуалистом^[94]. По словам Роберта Инглунда, «это удивительно, как Фредди может представить мужчину-гея, пытающегося пробиться [в переносном смысле и буквально] в жизни»^[95].

Влияние

Известны несколько случаев, когда образ и действия вымышленного персонажа Фредди Крюгера «вдохновили» нескольких реальных людей на совершение жестоких преступлений. 4 апреля 2007 года британец Джейсон Мур был приговорён к тюремному заключению после того, как напал на своего друга с перчаткой с когтями, очень напоминающей ту, что носит Фредди. По признанию психиатров, тридцатисемилетний Мур просто одержим Фредди и его кровавыми деяниями. Он пересматривал фильм множество раз и даже непосредственно перед нападением. Детектив, расследующий это дело, заявил, что орудие Мура — «самое страшное орудие из тех, что он когда-либо видел»^[96].

Житель Лондона, 26-летний Дэниел Гонсалес, совершивший несколько убийств и покушений на убийства, брал пример с Фредди Крюгера^[97][98]. Он был болен шизофренией и заявлял, что цель его жизни состояла убийстве как можно больше людей. Он был приговорен к шести пожизненным срокам заключения, направлен в психиатрический центр в городе Бродмур, где покончил жизнь самоубийством, вскрыв вены осколком компакт-диска^[99].

Пародии

Персонаж и сюжет фильмов серии неоднократно подвергались пародии во многих популярных мультсериалах. В эпизоде сериала «Симпсоны» под названием «Treehouse of Horror VI» в одной из историй пародируется Фредди Крюгер — садовник Вилли преследует героев в их снах, в костюме, похожем внешне на Крюгера, но с граблями вместо перчатки с лезвиями. А в заставке к эпизоду «Treehouse of Horror IX» Фредди Крюгер и Джейсон Вурхиз ждут героев, сидя на диване. Крюгер произносит небольшую фразу — его озвучил приглашённый Роберт Инглунд^[100]. В эпизоде «Cape Feare» Нед Фландерс носит похожую перчатку, используя её для стрижки кустов. При этом в приступе паранойи Барту кажется, что Нед играет лезвиями, как это периодически в фильмах делает Крюгер^[101]. Также Фредди появляется в эпизоде «Million Dollar Abie» — он поёт песню «Springfield Blows» вместе с другими знаменитостями.

В эпизоде мультсериала «Южный парк» под названием «Новчало», Фредди Крюгер появляется во сне психолога Маки в качестве «лучшего специалиста по сновидениям». В эпизоде «A Song For Margo» мультсериала «Критик» подружка Джея, Элис, уговаривает свою дочь Пенни пойти в «Детский сад улицы Вязов» (который, как позже выясняется, на самом деле называется «Детский сад кошмаров на улице Вязов»). Девочка говорит, что не хочет спать, так как директор детсада превратится в Фредди Крюгера или её проглотит гигантский червь^[102]. В девятнадцатом эпизоде «That Hurts Me» первого сезона сериала «Робоцып» пародируется шоу «Большой брат» с персонажами фильмов ужасов, среди которых появляется и Фредди Крюгер^[103].

В российских шоу Фредди Крюгер также неоднократно появлялся в качестве пародируемого персонажа. В 103-м выпуске «Ералаша» в ролике «Чужой (Наш ужастик)» фигурирует Фредди Крюгер в исполнении Владимира Носика^[104]. Пародийное воплощение Фредди встречается также в короткометражном фильме «Кешка и Фредди», где в этом образе является учитель английского языка^[105].

Также в сериале «Папины дочки», транслируемом по телеканалу СТС, в начале 49-й серии отец семьи становится Фредди Крюгером и тоже приходит во сне^[106]. В скетч-шоу «6 кадров» во время начальной заставки один из актёров шоу Фёдор Добронравов появляется в образе Крюгера^[107]. В пародийном шоу «Большая разница» в 51 выпуске была показана пародия на Фредди Крюгера^[108]. В украинской версии шоу в 12 выпуске также был спародирован Фредди.

Примечания

Ссылки

Страницы персонажа:

• Фредди Крюгер на сайте Internet Movie Database
• Фредди Крюгер на сайте Nightmare On Elm Street Wikia
• Фредди Крюгер на сайте Nightmare On Elm Street Companion
• Фредди Крюгер на сайте The Flash Farm
• Фредди Крюгер на сайте Forever Horror
• Фредди Крюгер на сайте Best Horror Movies
• Фредди Крюгер на сайте Elm Street

Статьи:

• Подростковая классика 80-х
• Фредди Крюгер: симпатяга с улицы Вязов

См. также

• Джейсон Вурхиз
• Майкл Майерс
• Кожаное лицо
• Призрачное лицо

Кошмар на улице Вязов
Классический сериал (1984—2003)
Фильмы	Кошмар на улице Вязов (1984) • Месть Фредди (1985) • Воины сна (1987) • Повелитель сна (1988) • Дитя сна (1989) • Фредди мёртв. Последний кошмар (1991) • Новый кошмар Уэса Крейвена (1994) • Фредди против Джейсона (2003)
Персонажи	Фредди Крюгер • Нэнси Томпсон • Джесси Уолш • Кристин Паркер • Элис Джонсон • Лейтенант Дональд Томпсон • Джейсон Вурхиз
Создатели	New Line Cinema • Боб Шэй • Уэс Крейвен • Джек Шолдер • Чак Рассел • Ренни Харлин • Стивен Хопкинс • Рейчел Талалэй • Ронни Ю • Роберт Инглунд
Комиксы	Marvel • Innovation • Avatar • Wildstorm • Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash • Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmares Warriors
Музыка	Dream Warriors • Are You Ready For Freddy? • I’m Awake Now • Nightmare On My Street • Freddy Kreuger
Разное	Кошмары Фредди (список эпизодов) • Наследие улицы Вязов • Я — Нэнси • Книги • Игры • Хронология • Спрингвуд
Кошмар на улице Вязов (2010)
Создатели	Platinum Dunes • Майкл Бэй • Сэмюэль Бейер • Стив Яблонски
Актёры	Джеки Эрл Хэйли • Руни Мара • Кайл Галлнер • Кэти Кэссиди • Томас Деккер • Келлан Латс