'Freddy Krueger is the logo of the experience that people have, sitting through eight of the movies. I’m the symbol of that experience, and I get that de facto popularity because of it,' said Robert Englund.
. You don’t have a Western every week now, but you have a horror film released a lot. We’re part of the culture now, and people expect it.But back then, when that shift occurred in the ’80s renaissance, it reminds me a bit of in the ’60s with rock ‘n’ roll. You’d go over to your friend’s house and only one guy could afford the album—you’d have one Beatles album, and you’d listen toover and over and over again. Then you’d go listen to another great album by The Rolling Stones, and you’d share it.
To what do you ascribe Freddy's popularity? To me, it always seemed like his humor was what set him apart. But as you suggest in the documentary, maybe it was also that you chose to play him as a dream version of a pathetic child-molesting man, rather than just as a titanic monster? I think there’s a bit of a wink. When you’re in the nightmare, you’re not in reality; you’re in a dreamscape, and that character’s dream/nightmare. And Freddy’s in it too, and he’s exploiting that subconscious. But you’re witnessing it. If you think of the dream as having a proscenium around it, without talking to the audience, Freddy almost anticipates the audience’s expectation about how he’ll get to that victim.
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