Freddy Krueger’s Top 10 Kills from the Elm Street Franchise
3. Welcome to Prime Time Bitch!
It sounds wrong, but what an awesome kill this is. Poor Jennifer from Part 3: Dream Warriors who stubs cigarettes into her hands to keep herself awake goes into the TV room to watch a movie. She’s fairly confident that watching Scott Grimes (awesome child actor) in the very wonderful Critters will keep her awake and safe from Freddy’s clutches. Not quite so. But maybe that’s because she changed the channel and watched Dick Cavett interview Zsa Zsa Gabor instead- Cavett turns into Freddy and goes to kill Gabor in an hilarious moment when the TV starts to play up. Jennifer checks it out only for Freddy’s squirming head to appear from the top complete with aerial and mechanical hands, “welcome to prime time bitch”, Freddy tells her before yanking her head into the television set. Our jaws dropped and then like the horror freaks we are we rewound and watched again and again and again.
2. Let’s Get High
Again this choice of kill draws from the excellent third instalment Dream Warriors. Here Freddy corners Taryn a recovering heroin addict, she thinks in her dreams she has what it takes to beat Freddy, but he knows his innermost fears. She checks her arms to see little mouths vying for some drugs and Freddy is loaded with gear. He shoves all 8 needles into her giving her one hell of an overdose, look closely and you see a great vein effect on Taryn’s face. Freddy finishes off by quipping, “what a rush.”
1. Tina Gets Killed Slowly
Poor Tina, Nancy’s best friend gets killed rather slowly as Freddy toys with her when she is in bed with her boyfriend who will get arrested for her death. Tina played by the wonderful Amanda Wyss gets slashed and diced by an invisible Freddy before being tortured upside down and on the ceiling as Freddy drags his claws all over her body. Her helpless boyfriend can only watch in horror. Crème de la crème is final shot of her body hitting a blood splattered and soaked bed. Glorious. It doesn’t end there for Tina though as she reappears in a body bag in the school halls tempting Nancy to the infamous boiler room, this is back when Elm Street was a genuinely scary movie and this is one creepy scene from the original.
