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Freddy Krueger (/ ˈ k r uː ɡ ər /) is a fictional character and the antagonist of the A Nightmare on Elm Street horror film franchise. Created by Wes Craven, he 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]
In the original script for Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, Alice is killed by Freddy Krueger and Jacob is the main protagonist. [21] In the 1991 anthology The Nightmares on Elm Street: Freddy Krueger's Seven Sweetest Dreams, [26] Jacob (a young boy with heterochromia) is the protagonist in Philip Nutman's "Dead Highway, Lost Roads." After ...
The film series began in 1984 with the release of the first film A Nightmare on Elm Street which was directed and written by Wes Craven. Although Craven disliked the idea of sequels, he returned to co-write the third film, Dream Warriors (1987) and to write and direct the seventh film, New Nightmare (1994).
That fedora was one of the key elements that made it into Craven's original description for the movie when Robert Englund was cast as Freddy. However, while speaking to PEOPLE, the actor, now 77 ...
A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American supernatural slasher film written and directed by Wes Craven and produced by Robert Shaye.It is the first installment in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and stars Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, [6] [7] and Johnny Depp in his film debut.
Alice and Mark research Krueger and the nun Amanda. Realizing Amanda was trying to stop Freddy, they investigate her whereabouts, and Alice goes to sleep, hoping to find Amanda at the asylum. While there, Freddy lures her away by threatening Yvonne, who has fallen asleep in a Jacuzzi. Alice rescues Yvonne, who finally believes her.
A Nightmare on Elm Street has been terrorizing teens for 40 years. At the time of its release on Nov. 9, 1984, the now-iconic horror movie, written and directed by Wes Craven, first introduced ...
Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger in 1984. ... While filming the scene opposite Langenkamp, he remembers Craven trying to get the actor to hold up his claw glove high enough so it appeared on camera.