Freddy krueger biography

When one Frederick Charles Krueger first got out of our dreams and into our cars in 1984'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.

Freddy krueger biography

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?" "Why is he so angry?" And most importantly, "Wouldn't it be easier to just hold one knif