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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. Underwood ( Alice Cooper) who abused him throughout his childhood until Freddy finally murdered him as a teenager. Later, in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, it is revealed that he was adopted by an alcoholic named Mr. 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. When she was finally discovered, she was barely alive and pregnant, with the result that Krueger was regarded as "the son of a hundred homicidal maniacs" due to it being impossible to determine which of the rapists was his biological father. They managed to keep her hidden for days, raping her repeatedly. When Amanda was young, she was accidentally locked into the room with the criminals over a holiday weekend. 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.
Freddy's mother, Amanda Krueger ( Nan Martin), was a nurse at the asylum featured in the film. 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. 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). 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. 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.
The mob douses the building with gasoline and sets it on fire by throwing Molotov cocktails, burning him alive. He is hunted down by a mob made up of the town's vengeful parents and cornered in the boiler room.
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He is captured, but is set free on a technicality when it is discovered that the search warrant wasn't signed in the right place. 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. In 2010, Freddy was nominated for the award for Best Villain (formerly Most Vile Villain) at the Scream Awards. Wizard magazine rated Freddy the 14th-greatest villain of all time the British television channel Sky2 listed him 8th, and the American Film Institute ranked him 40th on its " AFI's 100 Years.100 Heroes & Villains" list. The character also more broadly represents subconscious fears. Robert Englund has said many times that he feels the character represents neglect, particularly that suffered by children. This glove was the product of Krueger's own imagination, the blades having been welded by himself. He is commonly identified by his burned, disfigured face, dirty red-and-green-striped sweater and brown fedora, and trademark metal-clawed brown leather glove only on his right hand. įreddy attacks his victims from within their dreams.
Jason and the Nightmares on Elm Street comics. This alias would be used in other films and media throughout the franchise, such as Freddy vs. The original film introduced his backstory as the Springwood Slasher, a serial killer of children who had been burned to death by his victims' parents after evading prison. Over the course of the series, Freddy has battled numerous survivors including Nancy Thompson and Alice Johnson. In 2011, Freddy appeared as a playable character in the video game Mortal Kombat and in 2017 as a playable character in Dead by Daylight. In the 2010 franchise reboot, Freddy Krueger was portrayed by Jackie Earle Haley.
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The character was created by Craven and was consistently portrayed by Robert Englund in the original film series as well as in the television spin-off. However, whenever Freddy is pulled into the real world, he has normal human vulnerabilities and can be destroyed. In the dream world, he is a powerful force and almost completely invulnerable. He first appeared in Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) as the spirit of a serial killer who uses a gloved hand with razors to kill his victims in their dreams, causing their deaths in the real world as well. Freddy Krueger ( / ˈ k r uː ɡ ər/) is a fictional character in the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series.