Freddy Krueger
“When I was alive, I might have been a little naughty… but after they killed me, I became something much, much worse… the stuff nightmares are made of.”
Freddy Krueger is the ultimate horror classic villain. With the perfect casting of Robert Englund as Frederick Charles Krueger who was the product of the violent rape of the nun Amanda Krueger by one hundred maniacs. A tormented child, he may be biggest bad of the big bad horror villains, but his back story and motivations and reasons for going all maniacal are actually empathetic. The deep and twisted history and who he was and what he became makes him all the more fearsome, but also tangible. His twisted and masochistic back round coupled with his choice of victims and the way he haunts them, makes him top of the list of scary and definitely a good choice for Monster Madness.
“People tout the fearsome merits of being stalked by a soundless, soulless, relentless killer as a height of psychological terror. Not for me. Being butchered by someone who is able to tell you how much they are enjoying it, what it means to them, and that they’ll keep doing it over and over, again and again to as many people as they can, that’s a fearsome thing.“ -Marc R. Luce
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I have always found Freddy to be the most noteworthy of the big horror film characters of this generation, even though I have a personal affection for Leatherface. Nonetheless you can’t argue with the diabolical wickedness of Freddy, and without question he is the most recognizable today. Good monster of the week. I vote for Leatherface next week though.
Nobody does Freddy Krueger like Robert Englund and the remake of NOES is what really makes me scared. I always dislike the idea of remakes but only a few have really made grunt in anger. This is one of them.
Definitely.
Freddy Krueger is the greatest horror movie villain of all time.
Why do a remake of Nightmare On Elm Street? It’s just as amazing as it was when it was released. Hollywood fucking blows.
Really? A remake? That’s blasphemy, but I guess Rob Zombie did it with Halloween. That actually looks good though.