When was freddy krueger created

When one Frederick Charles Krueger first got out of our dreams and into our cars in 's A Nightmare on Elm Street , he was unlike anything that mainstream horror audiences had witnessed before. Mutilated, ruthless, and gleefully sadistic, Freddy had that movie monster "it" factor. He was intangible. He was aggressive. He was probably just a figment of your imagination, sweetie, so go back to bed. And in addition to all of that, he was lucrative to the tune of nearly half a billion dollars.

His meteoric rise to fictional stardom brought in its wake an international merchandising phenomenon, heralding everything from knife-fingered glove replicas to the irreplaceable "Freddy Fright Squirter. But amongst all the celebrity hubbub and hullabaloo, we've lost sight of the most important questions. Questions like, "Who's the real Freddy? So today, we're taking a deep dive into the man behind the third-degree burns to understand him in ways you'd only ever dream of.

From his monstrous conception to his showdown with Jason, here's Freddy Krueger's backstory explained. Things were never going to be easy for Frederick Charles Krueger. As a nun, she worked at the Hathaway House, an asylum for the criminally deranged. A few days before Christmas , Amanda found herself the victim of a merry mix-up. She was locked inside the building when the guards went home for the long weekend, leaving the high-security hospital unattended, as is customary during the holidays.

By the time she was found, she'd suffered a series of horrendous attacks at the hands of the inmates and was pregnant with "the bastard son of Maniacs. Nine months later, a bouncing baby Freddy was born. Never one to catch a break, he was adopted by an abusive alcoholic named Mr.

Underwood, a man who looked distractingly similar to Alice Cooper. What followed was, predictably, sort of a huge nightmare. Understandably, Freddy was a troubled child. His ersatz patriarch was drunk all the time and seemed to take a great deal of joy in beating his young ward with a belt.

At school, Freddy was taunted mercilessly for his heritage. He started to exhibit the telltale signs of a fictional serial killer, murdering the class hamster and getting a kick out of cutting himself with a straight razor.

It would be delightful at this juncture to report that young Frederick experienced a moment of personal metamorphosis, switching gears and going from troubled loner to enthusiastic force for good, perhaps harnessing his understanding of the darker side of the human psyche to help others in their journey towards becoming useful members of society.

Sadly, this was not the case. On one particularly unfortunate day, Freddy, unable to stomach the constant tirade of abuse from his adoptive dad, jammed his razor blade deep into the eye socket of his father figure. While a life mired in violence and tragedy is difficult to punctuate with definitive turning points, it could be argued that this was where any hopes of a happy life died, and the Springwood Slasher was born.

The events of Freddy's young adult life are murky, and it's not clear whether or not he ever faced any legal consequences for the murder of Mr.

What is known is that by his mids, Fred Krueger was in the family way. He'd married a woman named Loretta who gave birth to a daughter, Katherine. Together, they lived what was, to the casual observer, a simple, happy, pedestrian life. Lying just beneath the surface, however, was a dark secret. Freddy, unable to stem his unquenchable bloodlust, had constructed a secret room in the family's suburban home.

Inside, he kept a series of homemade weapons, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia from his off-hours hobby, which was slaughtering the children of Springwood, Ohio, as the mysterious killer known as the Springwood Slasher. Marriage is, if nothing else, based on trust, and the Kruegers' home life hit a speed bump when Loretta discovered Freddy's macabre man cave. Freddy, sort of cementing himself as a one note song, killed his wife in front of their young daughter.

Shortly after this, he was arrested for the murders of numerous local children, and Katherine was put into foster care under a new name. Interestingly enough though, despite Freddy spending much of the s as a beloved pop culture icon, people sometimes forget just how amazingly messed up the character's backstory is. For one, in addition to being a killer, the films heavily implied Freddy was a child molester as well, an element made explicit in the forgettable remake starring Jackie Earle Haley.

As if that wasn't bad enough, Freddy's origin, both as a human being and later a dream stalker, is truly the stuff nightmares are made of. Over the course of the first two Nightmare on Elm Street films, all we really learn about Freddy is that he was a blue collar worker who killed his young victims in a boiler room, and that his signature knife-glove was a homemade murder weapon.

Freddy got off on a technicality for his crimes, then was burned alive by angry parents. It turns out that Freddy's very conception was horrifying, as it came following a nun named Amanda Krueger being accidentally locked inside an asylum for the criminally insane.

She was raped hundreds of times, and the result was Freddy, "the bastard son of maniacs. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child heroine Alice Lisa Wilcox is later made to relive that mental asylum scenario when Freddy starts to come after her via her unborn baby's dreams, but ultimately defeats him with the help of Amanda Krueger's ghost. In the dream world, Freddy is a powerful force and almost completely invulnerable.

However, whenever Freddy is pulled into the real world, he has normal human vulnerabilities. Robert Englund has said many times that he feels the character represents neglect, particularly that suffered by children. The character also more broadly represents subconscious fears. He is apparently destroyed at the end of the first film by protagonist Nancy Thompson, but the last scene reveals that he has survived.

He goes on to antagonize the teenage protagonists of the next five films in the series. Times article about a family who immigrated to the U. Then they heard screams in the middle of the night. By the time they got to him, he was dead. He died in the middle of a nightmare. Here was a youngster having a vision of a horror that everyone older was denying.

That became the central line of Nightmare on Elm Street. The social media legend claiming the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" character Freddy Krueger was once a real serial killer stems from a Halloween prank. The story has evolved over the past several years to offer new details relevant to different areas and lost its original prank disclaimer. Thank you for supporting our journalism.