It’s simple to give your Halloween costume the ultimate x factor. Freddy Krueger is one of the most macabre characters in the history of horror. Apart from the totally gruesome burned face with a spine chilling evil grin, the Freddy krueger glove is what really created his signature.
Made of worn leather and the fingers replaced by razor sharp tallons of steel blades, Freddy would stalk his victims in their sleep and slash them to death – killing them in real life.
Everyone has to sleep, some more than others, but that aside we all need it otherwise we would go insane. Our dreams can be very real and for some it’s impossible to differentiate between dream and reality when we are asleep. Scientific studies have proved that the human brain is not capable of distinguising what is dream and reality. It’s only the fact that we usually re-enter out conscious state whilst in our beds that gives us the contrast.
To know that there is a monster called Freddy Krueger who was, in living form, a child murderer, stalking you in your dreams is a terrifying thought. Have you ever had a nightmare and tried to wake up?…it’s really hard.
Once asleep, Freddy would feed on your fear and become stronger. Nowhere was safe! Quite often the first part of Freddy you would see was his glove. It could appear as a shadow on the wall, rise up in the bath tub, rip through sheets on your bed or sometimes you would hear it’s chilling screaching as it scaped against walls or metal.
The glove was his calling card and the part of Freddy that was the most feared. Attached to a seemingly unstoppable, super powerful and limitlessly sadistic maniac that was Hell bent on using this knife wielding glove to slash you to death in the most horrific and torturous way possible. Quite often, he would play and toy with his victims, laughing and enjoying the pain and fear he was inflicting before the final act of death was administered.
These attributes, created by Wes Craven have won this psychotic dream stalker the title of 40th out of the top 100 heroes and villains by the American Film Institute. It has also gave Robert Englund, the actor who played Freddy Krueger, the Saturn Award nominee for best supporting actor in 1987 and 1988.
Over twenty years later and sales of the Nightmare On Elm Street films are still going strong. Such was the terror created in the making of this film. The Freddy Krueger glove being the focal point of this time tested classic horror.
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