Freddy Krueger

> "*One, two, Freddy's coming for you. Three, four, better lock your door. Five, six, grab your crucifix. Seven, eight, gonna stay up late. Nine, ten, never sleep again*"
> ― Freddy Krueger's rhyme
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## Bio information

### Aliases

The Springwood Slasher
The Sensational Slasher Artist (by Jack the Clown)

## Physical Description

### Gender

Male

**Freddy Krueger** is a character that has appeared in a number of mazes at the annual Halloween Horror Nights event at Universal Studios Florida. He is the main antagonist of the *A Nightmare on Elm Street* film franchise, and also appeared alongside *Friday the 13th* antagonist Jason Voorhees in the 2003 film *Freddy VS Jason*, as well as the 2016 maze based on the film. He is the most famous creation of horror filmmaker Wes Craven, and is known for killing his victims in their sleep by invading their dreams. Any harm he causes in the dream world is inflicted on the victim in real life. He is also recognized by his witty and sarcastic personality, frequently mocking his victims with corny jokes as he kills them.

## History

### Background

#### Origins

Freddy Krueger was born in the Westin Hills Asylum.

Around the 1960s, Freddy Krueger was a school janitor and child-predator in the town of Springwood, dubbed the "**Springwood Slasher**". Despite Freddy being known to be guilty amongst the locals of Elm Street, he was never convicted of his crimes and continued his offences. Because of this, the parents of Elm Street formed an angry mob around Freddy's lair which they sealed up, doused in gasoline, and set on fire.

Freddy Krueger was killed but years later managed to return as a being who can attack people in their dreams, making it so that whatever effects their bodies in sleep effects them in real life, including death.

#### Nightmare on Elm Street

Years later, Freddy Krueger returned to terrorize the now teenaged children of Elm Street. He murdered several of these youths in their sleep, while the teenaged girl Nancy Thompson of *1428 Elm Street* pieced together his plans and true nature. Nancy set booby-traps around her house and intentionally went to sleep so that her friend could wake her up just in time that she could drag Freddy into the real-world.

After this, Nancy seemingly outsmarted Freddy and realized she was still in a dream where she refused to acknowledge Freddy, seemingly stripping his ability to scare and thus effect her while demanding he bring her friends back as she assumed the entire events of the story were a dream. Freddy disappeared and exited the house to find all her friends alive again, however once she got in the car with them the car was revealed to be one of Freddy Krueger's dream forms which trapped them inside and drove off to presumably murder them. Freddy then seemingly murdered Nancy's mother by dragging her back into the house through the front-door window.

#### Carnival of Carnage

When the undead clown and fellow murderous child-predator John "Jack the Clown" Schmidt escaped from the Shadybrook Asylum around 2006, he travelled to *1428 Elm Street* to send photographs of it back to his psychiatrist in Shadybrook, teasing his plans at recruiting Freddy Krueger. In 2007, Jack murdered occult circus-owner Doctor Oddfellow and claimed his "Cane of Souls" to create the "Carnival of Carnage".

Freddy Krueger was officially recruited into the sideshow of Jack's circus along with several other monstrous murderers. Typically Freddy Krueger would be limited to dreams, however due to the drug, "Sleepwell" which was previously used to prevent nightmares and Freddy's attacks, a side-effect of the drug resulted in Freddy causing waking dreams. Jack's carnival appeared to have a truck, dealing out Sleep-Well.

Jack's carnival would occupy the backlot of Universal Studios due to their association with the history of horror films. When summoned, Freddy travelled to the Westin Hills Asylum where he was conceived to drive the inmates mad in hopes of creating an army for further revenge against the town of Springwood. Once Jack was finished, he made off for Orlando while Freddy was left behind in a hell-like state.

#### Where Nightmares Come Alive

Freddy would return to the Hollywood backlot where he summoned fellow Carnival of Carnage sideshow performers: Jason Voorhees and Leatherface along with *The Strangers*.

## Park Appearances

### Halloween Horror Nights

#### Freddy vs. Jason

This Haunted House was a, "Round 2" to Freddy and Jason's fight from the first, "Freddy vs. Jason" movie in 2003. It had the two fighting to see who could kill the guests of the haunted house, and may have had a story connected to Jack the Clown's Carnival of Carnage.

#### Halloween Horror Nights 2007 (Hollywood)

Freddy was part of the Carnival of Carnage.

#### Halloween Horror Nights 2010 (Hollywood)

Freddy was icon of this Halloween Horror Nights event.

#### Halloween Horror Nights: Carnival of Carnage

Freddy Krueger was a part of Jack the Clown's "Carnival of Carnage" along with Jason and Leatherface. He was explained to be able to make a physical appearance due to Sleepwell having the side-effect of dreaming while awake.

## Trivia

* In the haunted house *A Nightmare on Elm Street: Dreamwalkers*, a drug called Sleepwell/Sleep-Well was used to prevent the nightmares which Freddy attacked his victims with. This drug has since become a recurring item in Halloween Horror Nights, being seen in the town of Carey, the Shadybrook Asylum and in the possession of Dr. Mary Agana and Dr. Albert Caine (in *HHN Icons Captured*).