Can you imagine anything more terrifying than a gruesomly disfigured dream stalker coming after you in your dreams wielding a glove with razor sharp, flesh slashing knives attached to it? That’s the horror of the Freddy Krueger glove which has become the signature weapon throughout all of the Nightmare On Elm Street Movies.
Freddy Krueger made his first screen debut back in 1984 in the blockbuster horror movie – A Nightmare on Elm Street which was created by Wes Craven. The main character whom the film was based around was Freddy Krueger, a vicious child murderer who would slash and kill his child victims with a home made glove that sported sharp blades instead of fingers.
The story began with Fredderick Charles Krueger who lived in the sleepy American town of Springfield. There had been several children murdered which had shook the close community. Freddy was caught and arrested by Police but to the town peoples outrage he managed to escape jail on a technicality.
Emotions were running high within the community and a group of local parents decided to avenge the childrens’ murders by forming a vigilante group to seek justice. The parents tracked Freddy to where he lived on 1428, Elm Street, trapped him in his house, doused it with petrol and then set fire to it.
The parents and all the community thought that was the end of Freddy Krueger, and all of them believed that he had perished in the fire. But what followed was only the start of Freddys’ killing spree. The fear that he had created, enabled him to become an undead who would then go on to stalk children in their dreams. Powerless in human form but in dream form would enter into childrens’ dreams, horribly burned and using his Freddy Krueger Glove of knives as his murder weapon. If he succeeded in killing them in their dreams then they would die in real life.
The more affraid he made them in their dreams, the more energy and power it gave him.
The first movie was A Nightmare On Elm Street and was based around Freddy determined to enter into the dreams of Nancy Thompson and her friends. He managed to kill all of them except Nancy who went on to star in the movies’ sequel.
This Halloween don’t forget to buy your Freddy Krueger glove.
