The Villain A typical teen horror film villain is either a monster, such as: zombies, demons, aliens, mutated beings, or an evil twisted everyday character out to kill. They're usally incredibly brutal and heartless
He holds many key conventions of a horror film villain; his creepy voice makes the audience feel uneasy, badly scarred face makes him look callous and very intimidating, sharp bloody teeth shows he is blood thirsty and out to kill, sharp metal fingers he wears as a glove, to slice up his victims. All of these key elements tell the audience he is a brutal villain. Krueger wears a tatty red and green jumper, and in my opinion I interpret this is a representation of Dennis the menace, showing the audience that Krueger is a menace but obviously on a much bigger and gruesome scale.
From this video we learn that Freddy’s character is a great deal deeper and darker than we initially thought. We see a shot of him passionately stroking and licking a photo of a small girl, this immediately creates lots of assumptions about Krueger. This shot links with a shot of a child’s doll burning in a furnace; these shots strongly suggest to the audience that he is a sickening paedophile who abducts and possibly kills children; the shot of the doll burning could represent the children being murdered. We also learn that he is proud of the awful 
Frederick Krueger is a notorious movie screen baddy, the product of the violent rape of the nun Amanda Krueger by one hundred maniacs (a.k.a. "The bastard son of a hundred maniacs). Called Freddy, he was constantly ridiculed for his infamous and brutal conception. It was then he started murdering small animals, and as he grew into adulthood, he turned his masochistic behavior on himself. After suffering abuse from his stepfather for many years, he brutally murdered him with a razor. It was after child services took his daughter away that Krueger became a child killer earning the name "The Springwood Slasher". After he was captured for his string of grizzly murders, he was unexpectedly freed on a technicality. The enraged parents of Springwood took the law into their own hands by following Krueger to a building where he took his victims and ignited it with gasoline into a raging inferno. However, no one expected the end result of this act. Freddy's soul was so corrupt that it was decided he could be of use to dream demons imprisoned in hell. When he was promised eternal life in the world of dreams, Freddy could hardly refuse. Ever since that night, Krueger has taken his revenge on the parents of Springwood by stalking their children through their dreams. Each time he is able to twist what would seem to be a normal dream into his own brutal imagination's delight of terror. Some children have escaped thinking they have defeated him, only to have him rise again sometime later.
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He holds many key conventions of a horror film villain; his creepy voice makes the audience feel uneasy, badly scarred face makes him look callous and very intimidating, sharp bloody teeth shows he is blood thirsty and out to kill, sharp metal fingers he wears as a glove, to slice up his victims. All of these key elements tell the audience he is a brutal villain. Krueger wears a tatty red and green jumper, and in my opinion I interpret this is a representation of Dennis the menace, showing the audience that Krueger is a menace but obviously on a much bigger and gruesome scale.
From this video we learn that Freddy’s character is a great deal deeper and darker than we initially thought. We see a shot of him passionately stroking and licking a photo of a small girl, this immediately creates lots of assumptions about Krueger. This shot links with a shot of a child’s doll burning in a furnace; these shots strongly suggest to the audience that he is a sickening paedophile who abducts and possibly kills children; the shot of the doll burning could represent the children being murdered. We also learn that he is proud of the awful things he has done because we see him sticking pictures and newspaper articles about the abducted children into an album, it’s as if he’s framing the children he’s abducted and killed, he’s writing actions down, so he can always remember and remind himself about what he done. This shows he is psychotically sinister and pure evil. We also see how he kills his victims, and I believe this is which sets him apart from other horror film villains. He kills his victims inhumanely and wants them to suffer, in ways which should only be able to happen in dreams. For example, one boy was sucked into his bed and a fountain of blood was left gushing towards the ceiling. Incredibly gruesome.
Freddy Krueger is a great example of a teen horror villain and he will influence my work because i believe he is so brutal and scary he attratcs an audience to watch him, as he is like no other villain.
Freddy Krueger is the main antagonist and a killer from the slasher film series A Nightmare on Elm Street.
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