Original Series
In April 1941, a young girl was accidentally locked in the sanitarium of Westin Hills Psychiatric Institute in Springwood over the holidays. The inmates kept her hidden for days. She was raped... hundreds of times. When she was found, she was barely alive. That girl was Amanda Krueger, her child was Freddy - the bastard son of a hundred maniacs.
Frederick Charles Krueger was born in February 1942 and was shifted from one foster home to another throughout his childhood, learning nothing but torment and hatred along the way.
Called Freddy, he was constantly ridiculed for his infamous and brutal conception. It was then he started murdering small animals, and as he grew into adulthood, he turned his masochistic behavior on himself. After suffering abuse from his stepfather for many years, he brutally murdered him with a razor.
Freddy finally returned to his hometown of Springwood and was disgusted to see the picture of a perfect town, full of happy families in their tidy homes. With that jealousy and disgust building up inside him Freddy became one of the most notorious child-killers alive. Finding employment maintaining the boilers at an old steam-plant on the outskirts of town, Freddy would settle down and have a family of his own, all the time plotting his revenge upon life itself.
Whilst working in the plant he went on to construct the first of his imfamous 6 inch bladed gloves. Made from and old glove and four razor sharp blades that he attached to the glove with interlocking metal sections and rivets he began his killing spree, known as the Springfield Slasher. From 1975-1977 he kidnapped and murdered 23 children.
Freddy's downfall came when his wife discovered the bladed glove and a multiple of newspaper clipping about the child murders in their basement. Despite her tearful assurances that she would not tell what she knew, the paranoid Freddy would go on to throttle his wife in front of his horrified daughter.
Soon afterwards, Freddy was arrested and charged with the murders of his wife and the missing children of the town. However, in their haste, the bungling officers forgot to read Freddy his rights, he was unexpectedly freed on a technicality.
Seeing the threat he posed, the court placed his daughter in an orphanage.
The enraged parents of Springwood, OH then took the law into their own hands. They followed Krueger to a building where he took his victims and ignited it with gasoline into a raging inferno. However, no one expected the end result of this act. Freddy's soul was so corrupt that it was decided he could be of use to dream demons imprisoned in hell. When he was promised eternal life in the world of dreams, Freddy could hardly refuse. Ever since that night, Krueger has taken his revenge on the parents of Springwood by stalking their children through their dreams. Each time he is able to twist what would seem to be a normal dream into his own brutal imagination's delight of terror. Some children have escaped thinking they have defeated him, only to have him rise again sometime later. There is only one documented case of Krueger meeting his match. While in hell, he was able to awaken Jason Voorhees, of Camp Crystal Lake infamy. Freddy was then able to use Jason to strike fear into the kids of Elm Street. This plan backfired when the masked killer could not be shut down. This led to a big confrontation both in the dream and real world. Freddy still lingers in the pits of hell with no indication if or when he will return.
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In The Remake
Fred Kruegar is a more dark and sinister being that keeps the jokes to a minimum. He still has some humor, but he likes to scare his victims rather than gross them out. In life, he was the care taker of a small pre-school who loved to play with the children. When some children began to talk of him doing horrible things to them in the school basement, the parents were enraged. They formed a lynch mob and went to after him. He had fled the school and the parents eventually caught up with him, chasing him down to an abandoned factory and burning him alive. He tries to get the former children, now teens, to remember him by haunting them in their sleep. Once they are their weakest, he kills them as they drift off to sleep. By the end when Nancy and Quentin are the only Elm Street kids left, they begin to do research to figure out who this evil dream man really is. They find the abandoned and run-down pre-school and the hidden cave that the children mentioned. It was where he would take them and do awful things to them. Nancy found pictures of herself as a child in the hidden room. Though it was never actually stated in the original series, in this re-telling Freddy is in fact a child molester. They decide to pull Freddy out of the dream realm in order to kill him once and for all. After a fight for her life, Nancy slices Freddys neck. She then sets the basement of the school on fire and gets out with Quentin. Later on, the firefighters say that there was no sign of a body. Nancy and her mother are back at home, and just when everything seems alright,
Freddy jumps out of the mirror impaling the mother with his glove and pulling her back through.
Plans for a sequel have been floating around for quite some time, it is uncertain if we will be seeing the "new" Freddy again any time soon.
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