When the A Nightmare on Elm Street remake was announced, I thought it was a no-brainer that fans would want a non-wisecracking Freddy back, but it seems like I may have been wrong. Some fans prefer the Krueger from parts four-through-six, the pun-slinging, “this is your brains on drugs” Krueger is way more popular than I thought.
NightmareOnElmStreetMovie.com just published an article asking fans of the franchise to weigh in on which Freddy they prefer. Check out The Debate: Funny Freddy vs. Serious Freddy and let other Elm Street fans know what Freddy captured your heart: Serious Freddy or Funny Freddy.
Freddy Krueger returns in A Nightmare on Elm Street (April 30, 2010), a contemporary re-imagining of the horror classic. A group of surburban teenagers share one common bond: they are all being stalked by Freddy Krueger, a horribly disfigured killer who hunts them in their dreams. As long as they stay awake, they can protect one another…but when they sleep. there is no escape.
he was funny due to his confidence
Freddy always had a since of humor. I just want to see Freddy the way he was meant to be seen. What’s scarier then a Child Molester/Child Murderer who was BURNED alive by pissed off Parents.
i think freddy has indeed always had a creepy sense of humor. “hey tina, watch this”! he then chops of his finger and grows it back in front of her, then laughs like a son of a bitch cause to him it’s hilarious.
i have no problem with the odd joke at his victims expense, if the joke is actually funny and most importantly, something that would be funny to the supernatural form of a burned alive child molester. “how’s this for a wet dream”? that nearly made me cry with laughter because it sounds like something an evil dirty pervert would say in that situation. on the other end of the spectrum we have things like freddy and the nintendo powerglove, and many of the terrible one liners from the later films. i don’t think freddy should come across as anything less then evil. and evil can be funny. as opposed to goofy, goofy is hard to accept as evil.
write good material and freddy can be a little of both. i am excited as hell about the remake (though guarded about it as well). there is some good happening in the world of remade horror classics. but there has also been a lot of disappointment. lets hope a nightmare on elm street is one of the former. it’s pretty cool that people still care enough about this character a quarter of a decade after he first came slashing through theater screens to continue making films about him.
long live the fred heads:)
ShAPELING
you mean a quarter of a century?
hahaha, exactly… typo… thanks for pointing it out:) still valid points i think.