Heather Langenkamp doesn’t suppose Freddy Krueger could be as scary at this time as a result of he’d be was a goofy meme.
Within the age of social media, it’s simple to think about what would occur with the teenage targets if the horror film took a extra life like strategy. Little doubt one would cease to snap a pic of the killer and switch them into the poop emoji in actual time whereas one other would take a selfie proper earlier than the killer pops up for that remaining scare. There, too, could be tweets alongside the strains of, “1,000,000 likes and i’ll remove this dude’s mask!” However how would essentially the most iconic of slasher favorites fare with a lot social media round? For Freddy Krueger, it’s all concerning the memes.
Sitting down for a joint interview with ComicBook.com, Heather Langenkamp – who performed remaining woman Nancy Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Avenue – stated Freddy Krueger would lose lots of his boiler room steam due to social media. “I mean, I almost think it’s impossible to have a scary character with social media because by the time you’ve already put out the scary side, there’s like 100 memes of you being ridiculous and they’ve figured out a way to humiliate you, so I don’t know if Freddy could even exist today…I see those memes the minute you’re trying to scare me, it’s like there’s a meme about something else.”
Robert Englund – who after all performed Freddy Krueger throughout eight completely different movies – confirmed, “Freddy texts. I wonder if I could get my tongue in a smartphone,” referring to the scene the place a telephone Nancy is holding turns into Freddy’s mouth.
It doesn’t take a lot to get Freddy Krueger to need to slice and cube, however we are able to completely see him getting pissed off when a tweet drops of him mid-blink, the caption studying: “My boy Freddy caught nappin’!”
For his half, Englund doesn’t see social media or the web enjoying a task in any side of the Nightmare on Elm Avenue motion pictures, though it does have its place in fashionable horror. “I love the idea of technology being used as a tool in a horror narrative, I think I’m a sucker for that. I just think there’s probably better ways to do that than with the mythology of Nightmare on Elm Street.”
