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    Frederick Charles "Freddy" Krueger is a character of the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He first appeared in Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) as a burnt serial killer who uses a glove armed with razors to kill his victims in their dreams, causing their deaths in the real world as well. In the dream world, he is a powerful force and almost completely invulnerable. However, whenever Freddy is pulled into the real world, he has normal human vulnerabilities. Krueger was created by Wes

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    perfectly, is the infamous Freddy Krueger. Freddy is the bladed-gloved adversary in Wes Craven’s A Nightmare On Elm Street movie series. Krueger is a serial killer, recognizable by his bladed gloves, that kills his victims in their dreams, also causing their death in real life as well. He first appeared in 1984 in the first installment of the franchise, which began a decades-long worldwide fear of the vindictive spector. Portrayed by award-winning Robert Englund, Krueger has terrified and excited

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    Many horror films provide their audiences with scares and screams.  Not many viewers follow what kind of model the films follow to appease their viewers.  However, after reading film theorist Carol Clover’s essay, watching one of the films she associates in the novel “Halloween”, and also watching the movie “Nightmare on Elm Street” I say almost every “slasher” or horror film follows a model similar to Clover’s.  The model that is a female is featured as a primary character and that the female tends

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    People find the gendered change of Slenderman from examination investigation of unique and fan-based Slenderman notwithstanding fanfictions content mining. The historical backdrop of repulsiveness characters with the examination of Frankenstein, Freddy, and Ring and content mining on the word determinations amongst female and male writer in one hundred loathsomeness books and one hundred blood and gore classic film contents. Individuals find the presence of sex twofold structure all through the

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    white-eyed shadow or a dark model of Golden Freddy. He appears in Parts/Service, sitting in the location Bonnie normally sits. He appears to be in a slumped position, similar to that of Golden Freddy's and Bonnie's. It also uses Golden Freddy's model. Brightening and saturating this image reveals that this hallucination is purple in color (this has him dubbed "Purple Freddy" by the fanbase and other people, like YouTubers, though he is often called "Shadow Freddy" as well). If he is observed for too long

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    My grandma had told me to find a scary movie to watch while she got the dinner and the snacks ready. I had got some covers for us just in case we get cold in the living room. The movie I had pick was called A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 it was an Freddy Krueger movie. My grandma had fixed dinner and had fed my grandpa then she had grab the snacks and came in the living room, we had settled down and I had press play on the movie. Like 40 mins later we was laughing at some parts of the movie and just enjoying

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    the viewers. In Kyle Christensen’s article featured in Studies in Popular Culture Vol. 34 he states “In the original shooting script for A Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy Krueger was written as a child molester. Actor Robert Englund recalls: “Wes [Craven] wrote the most evil, corrupt thing he could think of. Originally, that meant Freddy was a child molester. Right while we were shooting... there was a huge scandal based around an area of single parent yuppies in California known as South Bay. Child

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    To start off, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen who wrote Monster Culture is Professor of English and Director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. He is known for researching strange mysterious things that connect to an imaginative mind. He finds interested in monsters, foreigners, queers, inhuman forces. In Jeffrey Cohen’s essay Monster Culture Cohen discusses and effectively covers important reasons on how monsters connect with the cultures

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    “Hey, what movie do you want to watch tonight?” A common phrase spoken amongst most households on a Friday night; families getting ready to watch the newest animation, blockbuster, or even a romantic comedy. Yet, most individuals pass off the idea of watch a horrific, nightmarish movie before he or she falls asleep. Well, my mother and I do just that. We always bicker over what we want to watch, like an old married couple, but our fights are over a physical horror movie like Nightmare on Elm Street

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    Born in 1966, Kenneth Krueger was the second child of Frederick and Loretta Krueger; soon before Freddy murdered his wife in cold blood, an act of brutality witnessed only by his older daughter, Kathryn — both children would be relocated, following Freddy's capture and murder at the hands of the parents of Springwood, taking justice into their own hands for his laundry list of awful crimes. Grown up in neighboring areas outside Springwood, Kenneth meant to serve as a sort of conduit from an early

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