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October 17, 2021 12:53 pm
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Scary killer Freddy Krueger from "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is one of the most popular movie maniacs in history. But while horror fans have watched this popular movie to the holes over the years, some facts about Freddy must have escaped their attention. Well, let's talk about those facts.
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Nintendo didn't want to be associated with Freddy Krueger
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As fans of the franchise remember, Krueger had a Power Glove for the Nintendo game console in "Freddy's Dead: The Last Nightmare." The filmmakers asked the firm for permission to use its slogan "Play with Power" in the script, but the company refused, fearing that its product would be too tightly associated with the movie maniac.
Published Freddy Krueger comic books
In 1989, Marvel Comics published two issues of Freddy Krueger: A Nightmare on Elm Street comics, but they turned out to be so violent and explicit that they caused a wave of protests from anti-violence organizations. The series had to be shut down.
Illustration from Marvel Comics
Peter Jackson wrote the script about Freddy Krueger
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Over the course of the franchise's existence, many scripts about the famous maniac have piled up in the hands of the rights holders, New Line Cinema. One of them, which is still in the studio's piggy bank, was written by the famous director of Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson. I would love to see his Nightmare on Elm Street series: judging by its usual scope, it should be epic.
Gossip Cop Calendar: "Freddy Krueger" Birthday
June sixth marks the 63rd birthday of Robert Englund, the magnificent screen villain who embodied the character of Freddy Krueger. Robert once saw a whole magazine of tattoos with Krueger: I saw a whole magazine of tattoos with Freddy Krueger. Hey, I'm a classical actor with a traditional education, I played Chekhov, and now there are thousands of people all over America with tattoos of me. I just think of it as pop culture.Robert was born in the town of Glendale, California, the son of a housewife and an aviation engineer, who worked on the plane Lockheed U-2. At the age of 12, Englund became interested in theater. Growing up, he attended acting classes at Oakland University and UCLA, studied at the Michigan Academy of Dramatic Arts and the New York Chapter of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rochester. Despite his talent and excellent education, Englund became famous primarily as a performer of villainous roles. In the 1970s he starred in a great many different thrillers - Killer Dreams, Eaten Alive, The Fifth Floor, Buried But Not Dead. Not surprisingly, he was noticed by the acclaimed master of horror Wes Craven. To create the painting "A Nightmare on Elm Street," Wes was inspired by a story he read in a newspaper: a group of Cambodians as long as possible refused to sleep - young people were plagued by terrible nightmares. When they did fall asleep, they would wake up some time later with terrible screams. Their bodies were very exhausted, so many died of a heart attack immediately upon awakening. Wes gave the name Freddy Krueger to the maniac in honor of the boy who had abused the director as a child. And the appearance of Freddy "inherited" from a homeless man who once scared Craven. By the way, it was originally planned that Freddy would be silent - like, for example, Jason Voorhees. But a little later, Krueger became a chatty little guy and a lover of black humor. Actually, already after the first part, Robert Englund became a superstar. True, he was rarely recognized on the streets at the time - no one could think that Freddy without makeup looked like that.
"A Nightmare on Elm Street.
The film was so successful that the next year - in 1985 - the second part of "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge. However, Wes Craven refused to shoot the sequel, and the picture passed into the hands of director Jack Sholder. But Freddy himself, that is, and Robert Englund, was given much more screen time than in the first part. Robert also appeared in the first scene of the film, as the bus driver.
"Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge"
In 1987, Freddy returned to the screens again - with the movie "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Sleep Warriors" and with a new director Chuck Russell. Englund at this point had already become so attached to the picture and to his "charming" character, which even wrote a script proposal for the picture. However, it was rejected.
"Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Sleep Warriors."
A year later, the fourth part of "Nightmare..." followed. It, by the way, became the most profitable of the seven Freddy Krueger films, not counting "Freddy vs. Robert Englund was named first in the credits, and compared to the first picture, he has exactly twice as much screen time in this film.
"A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: Lord of Sleep"
The script for "A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child" was repeatedly rewritten. As a result, the film started in 1989, and was also a huge success. By the way, in the film, Robert Englund appears without Freddy's makeup - if you look closely, you can see him among the prisoners during the rape scene.
"Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child."
After the fifth "Nightmare..." Englund had time to star in "Phantom of the Opera" before returning to his beloved Freddy. The sixth part of the picture started at the box office in 1991. It even had 3D scenes. There is also a new character in the film - Freddy's father, played by the legendary Alice Cooper.
"Phantom of the Opera" poster.
"A Nightmare on Elm Street 6: Freddy is Dead."
In the sixth installment of the franchise, Robert also appears without Krueger's makeup
Despite the fact that the sixth film was called Nightmare on Elm Street 6: Freddy is Dead, in the seventh part the maniac came to life again. This time it was "Godfather" Wes Craven who took over the film - he wrote the script and directed it himself. In order to make a new film, he reviewed all the previous parts of "Nightmare ..." and, by his own admission, did not find a common storyline in them.
By the time of filming the seventh "Nightmare..." films about Freddy Krueger Inglund has made almost a "family business" - in the seventh part as a nurse starring his daughter.
"Nightmare on Elm Street 7" - Robert again without makeup
...And yet he looks more spectacular in makeup.
Between the sixth and seventh part of the "saga about Kruger" Robert had time to more than parrot the people, playing in the thrillers "Dance of Death" and "Night Terror", as well as the series "Nightmare Cafe.
"Nightmare Cafe."
After the seventh film there was a lull in the fortunes of Freddie. For almost ten years, viewers missed Robert Englund and Krueger, although the first could often be seen in all kinds of film projects - at least in the youth thriller "Urban Legends". Nevertheless, in 2003, Freddy was back, and not alone, but with the main character of the film "Friday, 13" Jason Voorhees.
"Freddy vs Jason.
The first attempt to make a movie "Freddy vs Jason" was made back in 1987, but then the studio New Line Cinema did not work. But in 2003, it succeeded. Englund, traditionally, played Freddy. But the usual Jason - actor Cain Hodder - the role of Jason did not get, in the masked maniac reincarnated Ken Kirsinger.
"Freddy vs Jason.
Directed by Ronnie Yu, and initially he did not want to make a movie, as the script was not clearly spelled out, which of the killers eventually wins and stay alive. Ronnie was invited to choose the winner himself. So the finale was his doing.
Many people regarded "Freddy vs. Jason" not as a traditional horror, but rather as a black comedy. And, by and large, they are not far from the truth.
"Freddy vs. Jason."
Robert Englund continues to scare (albeit not as Freddy), starring in films like "2001 Maniac," "Fear of Death" and even in a film called "The Zombie Strip." But in the hearts of most viewers today's birthday boy will remain exactly in the image of "sweetheart" Freddy Krueger.
"2001 Maniac."
"A Nightmare on Elm Street" has a prequel
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Those wishing to learn more about Freddy Krueger's life before the events of the first movie that made his name a household name should check out the "Freddy Nightmares" series. The series was on from 1988 to 1990, with a total of two seasons. It did not achieve the enormous fame of the film.
Freddy Krueger gradually became a joker
In the first parts of the horror franchise "A Nightmare on Elm Street" maniac Freddy Krueger is extremely serious and silent - such a hero originally conceived by the director. But the further, the more frequent and funnier Krueger quips and, in addition, starting with the fourth film from time to time, disguised, embodying comic images: a nurse, a comic book character, an evil witch.
Sweater Color
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Freddy's brown-and-burgundy-striped sweater came out for a reason. Wes Craven is a director with a great attention to detail. He chose the two colors that are perceived as both the most disturbing and the most difficult to distinguish, and created a combination of them. So Freddy's sweater is both a camouflage and an alarm.
The boiler room was real.
The boiler room in which, according to the story, Krueger lived and hid was a real boiler room, located in the basement of the Los Angeles prison. Asbestos was used in the construction of the building, but in the 1980s it became known that the substance was very carcinogenic - inhaling asbestos dust was almost guaranteed to cause cancer. Soon after the filming ended, the prison was decommissioned.
The Difficult Role
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Actor Robert Englund admitted more than once that the role of Freddy was not easy for him. Every day he spent more than three hours in the dressing room. First, he glued a special latex mask on his face, and then makeup artists in several hands painted it. The process of removing the make-up was somewhat shorter, but no less excruciating: it's very hard to get a large amount of glue off your face, Englund will attest!
Based on true events
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By Wes Craven's confession, "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is based on events of his own life. The first was a series of articles in the local press about a strange epidemic among children who went to bed healthy and awake, only not to wake up. The mystery of this story shocked the director. The second was a child's impression of a mysterious old man whom the director saw as a toddler from a window. A man in a rough, dirty sweater and a hat with wide brim was walking slowly down the street, then stopped and looked directly into the window from which Craven was looking. When he saw the boy looking at him, the old man turned and went to the door of the house. Little Wes quickly ran away from the window and hid in the house, terrified. Of course, he doesn't know who the old man was - but he can certainly think of himself as a prototype of Freddy Krueger!
"A Nightmare on Elm Street" is inspired by real events
Wes Craven, the director and screenwriter of A Nightmare on Elm Street, got the idea for the story after reading in the news about strange cases of children dying. A group of Khmer teenagers from Cambodia, in their home country imprisoned in a death camp, had constant nightmares after immigrating to the United States. The dreams were so frightening that the children refused to go to bed, fighting sleep as long as they could, and some of them died of nervous exhaustion and heart attacks.
Freddy Krueger is a rap hero.
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Freddy Krueger has been the hero of rap songs at least twice. The Fat Boys dedicated the song 'Are You Ready For Freddy?' to him, and DJ Jazzy Jeff, along with Will Smith, dedicated the single Nightmare On My SStreet. None of them, however, brought the creators any laurels. Looks like Freddy is not fit to be a rap mascot!
Freddy Krueger Tattoo Locations
The image of this character is most often applied to the shoulders, forearms and back, mostly in the area of the shoulder blades. The tattoo of Freddy Krueger often complements tattooed sleeves and looks harmoniously as part of other horror compositions.
Less often the image of Krueger is applied on the ankle, thigh or other part of the leg. Perhaps due to the fact that these parts of the body are more often hidden under clothing, unlike the hands.
The decision to put Freddy's sketch on a visible part of the body is also related to a certain amount of aesthetics. A person creates a picture on the body not only for personal memories and nostalgia, but also to broadcast to the outside world their own preferences, as well as their favorite movies.
The embodiment of original plots in the spirit of Freddy coming out of his muscles or dissecting flesh with a glove with claws, is found on the back and forearm. Here the master has a relatively large and flat area to work on the tattoo image.
Recommended reading: Portrait tattoo
Wes Craven played Freddy
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In 1996, 12 years after "A Nightmare on Elm Street" was released, director Wes Craven played Freddy Krueger himself. It happened in a small cameo in "Scream." Craven appears on screen quite briefly as a janitor. He's scary faced, he's wearing a wide-brimmed hat, a brown and maroon striped sweater, and his name is Fred! Craven seems to have quite a weakness for his maniac child!
The image of Freddy Krueger stems from Wes Craven's childhood fears.
"Freddy" was the name of the bully who kept Wes Craven, the director of A Nightmare on Elm Street, out of the way in elementary school and regularly beat him up. And Craven's drunken neighbor, who frightened him with his aggressive behavior, wore a silly old hat - the same one the director put on the head of his main villain years later.
Wes Craven with the cast of the film
Is Freddy's father Alice Cooper?
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In Freddy's Dead: The Last Nightmare, there's a flashback scene where Freddy is with his father. First the father beats Freddy with a belt and then Freddy kills him - nothing unexpected, right? What's unexpected is something else: the role of Freddy's father is Alice Cooper! Doesn't it look alike? Remarkably, both Alice Cooper and Robert Englund starred in this scene without makeup.
