then why wont they make a movie where it actually shows him killing a child? you want to make him scary again, that would be the way to do it.

Yeah, he would be a real hero if we saw him doing that

I guess whatever

He wasn't intended to be a hero when Craven created him.

It's kind of bizarre when you think how a filthy child-molester/killer got to be such a comical and cool icon. Of course, he only killed people in their late teens onscreen, so that kind of made it not so bad.

the 80s had its fair share of political incorrectness, but at the time i really felt it was too much to have freddy or jason as personal heroes - and there were a lot of kids in my high school time who considered them such.

in recent times they tried to do the same thing with hannibal - but i dont know if they suceeded. it's kinda odd.

they would walk around with freddy krueger t-shirts but defend capital punishment for real-life child molesters, for instance.

I guess it's like underage drinking and smoking. There's something rebellious and exciting about them.

that's certainly it.

I think it's less being politically correct and more of the rebellious nature of teens against their parents and school authorities and such.

I remember as a youth, especially tween years, identifying with the poor, old misunderstood monster and not with the authorities out to capture or destroy it. It's a similar thing with anti-hero westerns and crime drama. Much of this seems to have become more common since the Kennedy killings and Vietnam expecially.

Not that today's audiences have that in their mind, but the anti-authority rebellion is pretty common in most geneerations since WW2. Before that, time was spent making a living and helping the family survive rough times, so there wasn't all that much leisure time to ruminate about how badly your parents treated you or how the principal wasn't your "pal" after all.

One of the best examples of identifying with the monster is Cabal/Nightbreed. Makes humans look like utter scumbags.

Freddy Krueger is a character that was killed for his crime.

Freddy wasn't a child molester in the original series of films. That's a common misconception, but it's never stated in any of them that was was a kiddie diddler.

The remake, on the other hand...

That was an original plan for him though.

He's described as being a child molester in the press kit for one of the movies, I think Dream Warriors. The first actual time he was called a child molester on film was in an episode of Freddy's Nightmares called "It's My Party And You'll Die If I Want You To", but that show isn't canon.

There's a definite taboo in Hollywood surrounding killing children on-screen.

It can be used incredibly effectively, though.

"Jaws" for example.
When the shark kills that kid near the beginning, people sat up and took notice.
If a little kid can die on-screen, anyone can die on-screen.

If they do get round to another Elm Street movie (at this point, they'd probably have to reboot again as the last one was so bad) it could be a useful technique to use in an opening scene.

then why wont they make a movie where it actually shows him killing a child?

Well in the first film that wasn't his motivation. He was killing the children on people who burned/killed him years ago. And it so happened they were teens

Can't really speak for the sequels as they are mostly an indistinguishable procession of crap, but seeing that child killing was a bit of a taboo still, and the cash cow Freddy had become a bit of an anti-hero, I think that pretty much says why they didn't back then. Be surprised if they did show a child killing (on screen)now if they made any more films.

well also if he was child killer then why did he wait until the children were teens before he started invading their dreams?

Who says he waited? We don't know what was happening before he became a monster that can invade dreams.

We could have him killing bratty kids. Every idiot in the world was once a child.

There's that intro in Freddy vs Jason where it shows him approaching a kid while he was still human, later he puts her picture on his album with the rest, but he licks it in a disgusting manner first.

Later the ghost, or something, of that girl appears and she has no eyes.

I think that's the closest we'll get.

Sometimes what you don't see is scarier than what you do. As far as making Freddy scary again, the remake was a step in the right direction.

(Yes I know that's an unpopular opinion.)

That happened in a dream I had once. It was disturbing, though. He was killing a child star, who died in real life, at the age of 12.

did i miss something all this time? when was Freddy a hero? lol
I know he was a villain that everyone loved the cheer..but hero?

It's sarcasm because the OP has started multiple threads calling slasher villains like Michael Myers and Leatherface heroes unironically.

>>24 How do you know it's the same person?

>>25
I don't.