I watched the 2010 reboot of A Nightmare On Elm Street the other night, mostly because we have cable again now and movie channels so I watch any random crap that’s on when I’m bored and also because I love really bad horror movies. Jackie Earle Haley plays Freddy Krueger, adding to his amazing career of playing mostly child molesters.
That’s the thing about this movie: They made Freddy a child molester. Apparently this was an idea Wes Craven was toying with back in 1984 when making the first film, but he threw it out. Want to guess why? Because making Freddy a child molester is like shooting a corpse in the face with a shotgun. We get it already, he’s murdering people. He’s a bad guy. We’re on your side, he has to be stopped. But now on top of him murdering teenagers we have to have scenes where he talks about having sex with kids? The ultimate showdown has to include him running his claw up and down a teenager’s junk?
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tofias said:
Your complaint explains why I don’t watch the genre at all.
punkassjim said:
I’m with nickhall. My understanding, all these years, was that Freddie Krueger was a convicted child molester who burned when he was put to death. I think that was revealed in the original movies.
nickhall said:
Are you sure that Freddy wasn’t a child molester in the earlier films? I always thought he was. I distinctly remember him creepily licking the back of the picture of a young girl. Maybe Freddie vs. Jason.
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whyiask reblogged this from maniacalrage and added:
Nicely put, guy!
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