jackie earle haley played freddy krueger in the 2010 nightmare on elm street.
jackie earle haley played freddy krueger in the 2010 nightmare on elm street.
who played freddy krueger in the 2010 nightmare on elm street?
jackie earle haley
the series includes nine films: "a nightmare on elm street" (1984), "" (1985), "" (1987), "" (1988), "" (1989) and "" (1991), in which freddy is seemingly killed. a demonic interpretation followed in "wes craven's new nightmare" (1994) where freddy krueger attempted to break free from the films into the real world. nearly a decade later, freddy was involved in a crossover with jason voorhees of the friday the 13th franchise in "freddy vs. jason" (2003). the series was rebooted in 2010 with "a nightmare on elm street", a loose remake of the original film with veteran krueger actor robert englund replaced with jackie earle haley and the character changed from child killer to child molester. the franchise also encompasses a television series, a video game, merchandising and numerous works of literature about freddy krueger and his exploits including further crossovers with jason voorhees and ash williams of the "evil dead" franchise.
list of a nightmare on elm street characters
in "nightmares on elm street", a six-issue miniseries published by innovation comics, alice returns to springwood following the death of her father and is forced to face freddy after he again tries to use a pre-pubescent jacob to kill. in the anthology "the nightmares on elm street: freddy krueger's seven sweetest dreams,"(1991) alice appears in philip nutman's story "dead highway, lost roads." after having been involved in a major accident, alice becomes ensnared in the dreamworld by freddy krueger. she is trapped in a macabre "alice in wonderland" setting. with the aid of serial killer karl stolenberg and anthropomorphic armadillo joe bob, jacob eventually finds alice. a deranged karl attacks alice, but is returned to his senses by jacob through physical force. alice and karl cooperate to defeat freddy, though karl perishes in the battle. with freddy defeated, alice and jacob return to the waking world. she also appears in "", where a vision of freddy causes her to meet with other freddy and jason survivors. she reveals that her dream powers have caused a terminal illness, and later sacrifices herself to pass her powers onto her son. the aforementioned comic series is not the only literature that has killed off alice. due to alice having been killed by freddy krueger, her son jacob is the main protagonist in natasha rhodes' novel "a nightmare on elm street: perchance to dream."
list of a nightmare on elm street characters