Why is he not attacking the parents?
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bimbi2 — 9 years ago(September 12, 2016 09:00 AM)
Why is Freddy not attacking the parents, they are still alive, those are the ones who killed him, burned him, not the children. Why almost only their children? Freddy's memory seems really burned down to ashes at that point:)))
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svalinanikola — 9 years ago(September 12, 2016 10:36 AM)
Simple, Freddy wants to make people suffer, there's evidence that he tortured people before he killed them. His claw doesn't seem like a great weapon for instant death, he'd kill people slowly and painfully.
So since he likes to make people suffer and he killed children, what better way to get revenge than to kill the children of the people who killed him? Plus, the reason the parents killed him is to get justice for the crimes he committed and also to protect their kids.
So, what he did was the perfect revenge. -
bimbi2 — 9 years ago(September 12, 2016 03:02 PM)
good point! Thank you for your extended explanation. One thing is still open to me and perhaps others. Most horror stories are a morality play at the bottom. Was Freddy ever convicted of the child murders? If not, everything makes a great sense: "You took right in your own hands and killed me without any proof of guilty. So I do the same with your children." (Of course, no matter if convicted or, they took right in their own hands, was against the law.) If he was convicted it is a less strong revenge story.
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hurricanehorton — 9 years ago(September 14, 2016 06:34 AM)
Convicted? No.
On trial? Yes.
The police had irrefutable evidence taken from his home, that Freddy had killed the children. Unfortunately in their haste to catch Freddy, the police hadn't got the search warrant signed properly. Therefore any evidence they did have was inadmissible.
Krueger laughed and gloated as he was set free. Everybody knew he'd done it, but there was nothing they could do about it. At least not within the confines of the law.
So the parents did what they had to do. They found where Krueger was hiding, and burned it to the ground, murdering him in the process. The cops and judges, many who had children themselves, looked the other way considering it for the greater good. -
AdrianLePier — 9 years ago(September 15, 2016 05:16 AM)
Because there is nothing more devastating for a parent than having to deal with the death of a child. Killing the actual participants of the mob would almost be too simplistic. He wanted them to suffer a pain greater than their own deaths. Plus it continues to fit his narrative. In life, he was a child killer. In death, he continues to be a child killer. It's almost like he's saying to everyone that there is
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TwoThousandOneMark — 9 years ago(October 24, 2016 11:10 PM)
I think that attacking the children
is
his way of attacking the parents.
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Manna-Fest — 9 years ago(October 29, 2016 03:04 PM)
Part 6 answers this when he talks about his daughter. He tells Maggie that the people took her away from him when they arrested him from his crimes so in return he went to take away the kids of the parents that killed him in return after he got off for his crimes.
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JennaHanson1974 — 9 years ago(January 17, 2017 02:13 PM)
Why is Freddy not attacking the parents, they are still alive, those are the ones who killed him, burned him, not the children. Why almost only their children?
Did you see the movie? LOL I ask because it's explained in the movie by Nancy's Mom. Nancy's Mom tells Nancy that the warrant was signed in the wrong place and Freddy was released. All of the parents got together and tracked Freddy down in his boiler room where he took the children. Then all of the parents set fire to the boiler room and burned him alive.
To get revenge on the parents that killed him, Freddy started killing their kids. He did kill at least one parent - Nancy's Dad. When he was looking for Freddy's bones to bury them in the used car lot (or whatever that place was) in "Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors".
"Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge" has nothing to do with the other movies in the series. (1,3,4,5,6) Freddy killed ALOT of kids in the second one. (And it's the only one I didn't like)
It might be weird, but I LOVE this movie and all of them that had Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger. I know EVERYTHING about this movie series I guess you could say I might be a little obsessed!
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ElectricWarlock — 9 years ago(February 01, 2017 10:26 AM)
The parents are already in enough pain right from the start because the children they had before were taken and they had to start all over again. They'd never quite get over that loss. Also, I imagine killing anyone would leave you with a sense of overwhelming guilt whether they deserved it or not. So they'd have to live with all the pain, remorse, anguish, etc., for all those years.
Then he'd come back from the dead two years later to take their new children once again. To me, that sounds like worse than death. You can tell how much he truly hated those people and how sick he really was. -
SpaceMountainMike — 9 years ago(February 07, 2017 03:33 PM)
Organized crime syndactes (particularly drug cartels) are notorious for going after your family rather than the person who crossed them. The Aryan Brotherhood also does this. They couldn't find the actual person that they wanted to kill so they killed his elderly father just to make him grieve.
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bigbadwolf666 — 4 years ago(August 25, 2021 11:44 PM)
I think the op asks a good question.
I think the basic facts are that this is a popcorn film and that it is intended for the teens target audience. If they had a bunch of grown adults then it wouldnt sell much.
Storywise,
He did attack the parents, and he wanted to make them suffer, destroy them through their kids and perhaps save them for last. There is a much more psedu-threat here though, which they allude to, much darker, I rather not get into.
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