Frederick Charles Krueger, better known as Freddy Krueger, is the main villain in the
saga A Nightmare on Elm Street, created by the movie director Wes Craven.
The origins of the character go back to a Christmas day in the beginning of the 40s.
A young nun called Mary Heléna, whose real name was Amanda Krueger, was locked, unintentionally,
in the division of lunatic criminals of the Psychiatric Hospital “Westin Hills”.
There, she was tortured and raped by other 100 patiences - she got pregnant and was on
the brink of death.
Months later, Freddy was born, and his mom gave him up for adoption.
Mr. Underwood took him, an abusive alcoholic who mistreated him all the time.
With time, Freddy started to develop a psychopath behavior, and showed it by killing little
animals.
During his last years as a teenager, Freddy started to get used to the abuse he suffered,
so much that he started relating it to pleasure.
He created his own philosophy and called it The Secret of Pain - it consisted on believing
that he couldnt make other people feel that until he himself knew how to enjoy it.
Following this belief, Freddy started to mutilate himself until he was able to control the pain
completely, and as an initial rite for his philosophy, he killed his step father.
As an adult, Freddy married a woman called Loretta, with whom he had a daughter, Kathryn.
The family lived in what was Fred’s home during his childhood, in the number 1420 on
Elm Street.
Kathryn was still a little girl when kids in the neighborhood started to disappear and
be found dead.
Soon after, Loretta fnds out that Freddy had a secret room in the basement, where he hid
different torture tools, newspaper clippings and versions of what would be his famous glove
in the future.
When Freddy finds out that she knows, even tho she tells him she won’t tell anyone,
he kills her in front of their own daughter.
As an adult, Freddy married a woman called Loretta, with whom he had a daughter, Kathryn.
The family lived in what was Fred’s home during his childhood, in the number 1420 on
Elm Street.
Kathryn was still a little girl when kids in the neighborhood started to disappear and
be found dead.
Soon after, Loretta fnds out that Freddy had a secret room in the basement, where he hid
different torture tools, newspaper clippings and versions of what would be his famous glove
in the future.
When Freddy finds out that she knows, even tho she tells him she won’t tell anyone,
he kills her in front of their own daughter.
As all this was happening, Freddy was working at the local power plant - in its boiler room,
he had captured and killed more than 20 kids.
The police couldnt solve the case, and Krueger earned the nickname “The Springwood Slasher”.
In 1966, Freddy was arrested for the murders of the missing kids, and Kathryn was adopted
by the Burroughs - this family left the town, and their records were erased.
Since the search warrant wasnt signed properly, all evidences were discarded, and Krueger
was set free in 1968.
After the trial, Freddy’s mother hanged herself in the same tower were she had been
raped.
That same night, parents in the neighborhood decided to take the law into their own hands.
They followed Krueger to the boiler room, made a gasoline trail to its entrance, and
they burnt him alive.
While the flames were taking over the room, three Dream Demons appeared.
These demons were wandering the earth looking for a cruel and vicious soul to join, to make
dreams come true.
Freddy accepted this union, in order to live for eternity in the world of dreams.
From that moment on, Freddy told himself he’d kill all the sons and daughter of the people
who had burnt him alive, getting into their nightmares while they sleep.
This character has appeared in 7 movies of the saga, and also in a crossover with the
Franchise “Friday the 13th” in “Freddy VS Jason”.
In 2010, they released a remake of the first movie.
His famous knives glove was created to symbolize the claws of a predator, and his legendary
red and green sweater has these colors since they are the two colors that have a greatest
impact in the human retina.
The character could come back to the big screen - there have been rumors for some years about
a possible sequel of the 2010 movie.
Whether it is happening or not, we are sure that Freddy will keep scaring us… getting
into our houses while we sleep… watching us in our deepest dreams…