Freddy Krueger's origins are depicted differently between the original series and the rebooted film. In the original series, he was a child murderer who got off on a technicality and was then murdered by the children's parents out of revenge. He was resurrected in Hell as a Dream Demon. In the rebooted film, he is depicted as a child molester who fled town to avoid authorities but is still murdered out of revenge for molesting and harming the protagonists as children.