Updated 05-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about FREDDY KRUEGER!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Freddy Krueger is a fictional character in the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series . he first appeared in wes craven’s film as the spirit of a serial killer . the character in the 2010 franchise reboot, Freddy Krueger was portrayed by Jackie Earle Haley . in the series, he has battled numerous survivors including Nancy Thompson and Alice Johnson . the original film introduced his backstory as Krueger’s glove was the product of his imagination . the blades had been welded by himself . Freddy was nominated for the award for Best Villain at the Scream Awards . he is hunted down by a mob of angry parents who lived on his street (Elm Street) the mob douses the building with gasoline and sets it on fire by throwing Molotov cocktails . in a nightmare on elm street 3: dream warrior, more of Freddy’s backstory is revealed . his mother, Amanda Krueger, was a nurse at the asylum featured in the film in a dream sequence, it is implied that Freddy identified which one of the rapists was his birth father . Freddy tortures animals and engages in self-mutilation . he becomes a serial he is married to a woman named Loretta (Lindsey Fields), whom he eventually murders . he also has a daughter, Katherine (Lisa Zane), who seeks Krueger aims to stop another film of the franchise from being made . he sees Langenkamp as his primary foe, because her character was the first to defeat him . his attempts to cross over cause in 2003, Freddy battled horror icon Jason Voorhees in the theatrical release Freddy vs. Jason . the film officially resurrected both characters from their respective deaths and sent them to hell . in the 2010 remake of the original film, Freddy’s backstory is that he was a groundskeeper at Badham Preschool . as a spirit, he takes revenge on the teenagers by haunting their dreams the show was hosted by Freddy, who did not take direct part in most of the episodes . a consistent theme in each episode was characters having disturbing dreams . the final scene reveals that Freddy’s spirit has survived, the series ran for two seasons, 44 episodes, ending March 10, 1990 . most of the episodes did not feature Freddy taking a major role in the plot . the pilot episode, “No More, Mr. Nice Guy”, depict the episode “Sister’s Keeper” was a “sequel” to this episode . the episode follows Krueger as he terrorizes Blocker’s identical twin daughters . season two’s ” craven’s original script characterized Freddy as a child molester . he instead made him a murderer in order to avoid being accused of exploiting child molestation cases . Craven he scared the living daylights out of me, so I jumped back into the shadows . he thrust his head forward as if to say, ‘Yes, I’m still looking at you’ the man “new nightmare” shows Freddy as closer to what wes craven originally intended . he is characterized as a symbol of something powerful and ancient . the movie isn’t like the six movies before in the 2010 remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Jackie Earle Haley portrayed Freddy Krueger . in this version of events there was ambiguity about the child-killer’s guilt or innocence in the original film, only Freddy’s face was burned . 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 the original film, Freddy remains in the shadows much longer than in the later pictures . in the second film, there are scenes where Freddy is shown without his bladed glove . Freddy also has fewer burns for the 2010 remake, Freddy is returned to his iconic attire . the burns on his face are intensified with bleaching of the skin and exposed facial tissue . i was also looking for a primal fear embedded in the original script had the blades being fishing knives . “i want the glove to look like something that someone could make who has the skills of a boilermaker” for new nightmare, Lou Carlucci remodeled Freddy’s glove for a more “organic look” Lou says the glove has more muscle and bone texture to it and blades are shinier . in the 2010 remake, the glove is redesigned as a metal gauntlet with four finger bars . Freddy’s glove appeared in the 1987 horror-comedy Evil Dead II above the door on the inside the glove also appears in the 1998 horror-comedy Bride of Chucky in an evidence locker room . Freddy Krueger appeared alongside Jason Voorhees and Leatherface as minor icons during Halloween Horror Nights 17 in 2016, Freddy Krueger returns to Halloween Horror Nights, along with Jason, in Hollywood . in the episode “That Hurts Me”, Freddy appears as a housemate of “Horror Movie Big Brother the game depicts Krueger as a malevolent spirit attacking Shao Kahn . he is pulled into the game’s fictional depiction of the real world . the character’s violent nature and iconic Krueger became playable in the mobile edition of the game’s sequel, Mortal Kombat X . he was released as a downloadable playable character in the seventh chapter of the asymmetric survival horror game the character returned to television in an episode of The Goldbergs titled “Mister Knifey-Hands” Freddy Krueger appears as an OASIS avatar in Ready Player One .