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Freddy Krueger is the main antagonist of the 2010 remake of the 1984 horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street. A sadistic pedophile, Freddy enjoys manipulating children so he could lure them to his cave, molest, torture, and take pictures of them. After his death at the hands of the parents of the children he molested, Freddy now haunts the nightmares of his victims.
He was portrayed by Jackie Earl Haley.
What Makes Him a Hate Sink?[]
- While the original version made slight hints about whether or not Freddy was a pedophile, he at least was not, the remake explicitly states that Freddy was a pedophile.
- Gains the trust of children by faking kindness so he can lure the children to a cave to molest them.
- He would torture children by cutting children's backs as his own disgusting fetish.
- He would also take pictures of the children that he molested and tortured.
- Not only does Freddy go after the children of the parents that murdered him instead of the parents themselves, he also does so in sadistic ways and takes pleasure and joy in the killings.
- He also would puncture a victim's heart while still allowing his victim's brain to remain functioning for seven more minutes just so Freddy could continue to torture him.
- He is even more sadistic towards Nancy than he was in the original. In the remake, he plans to make Nancy fall into a coma so that he can keep her as his sex toy for the rest of her life thus continuing to abuse her. This shown his twisted perversion towards victims that are children.
- At the end of the movie, he murders Nancy's mother right in front of her and faces no comeuppance for his actions whatsoever.
- In contrast to the original movie, where Freddy was irredeemably heinous yet balanced by genuinely funny one-liners, the remake portrays him in a serious light without any humor. Additionally, this version of Freddy lacks the tragic backstory that characterized the original Freddy Krueger even though he isn’t affected by it and has moved on from it a long time ago at least he has one.
- It was implied that he killed Nancy immediately after the events of the film, meaning that he truly won.
Triva[]
- His original counterpart is not a Hate Sink, due to being too laughably evil as he has lots of comedic moments and a lot of genuinely funny one liners despite the original version also being Pure Evil.
- According to the screenwriter, Eric Heisserer, Freddy was originally written as an innocent man falsely accused of child molestation before this idea was scrapped. Had this been kept in, he wouldn’t count as a hate sink.
External links[]
- Freddy Krueger on the Villains Wiki
- Freddy Krueger on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Freddy Krueger on the Scrappy Wiki
- Freddy Krueger on the Horror Wiki
- Freddy Krueger on the A Nightmare on Elm Street Wiki
- Freddy Krueger on the Dead by Daylight Wiki
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