It’s laborious to consider a horror film character extra iconic than Robert Englund’s Freddy Krueger. He stars in Wes Craven’s 1984 movie A Nightmare on Elm Avenue and in sequels all the way in which as much as (depend ’em!) A Nightmare on Elm Avenue 6, Freddy’s Useless: The Last Nightmare, and options in 44 episodes of the 80s TV sequence Freddy’s Nightmares. In 1994’s Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, Englund performed a fictitious model of himself who's being stalked by his personal character. He introduced Freddy again one final time in 2003 for Freddy vs Jason, the place Krueger and fellow horror icon Jason Voorhees (Ken Kirzinger) from Friday the thirteenth are each resurrected and despatched to hell. Greatest place for them.
It’s a task that has actually stored the Royal Academy of Dramatic Artwork-trained US actor in enterprise, in addition to in demand for a continuing circulate of A Nightmare on Elm Avenue documentaries. It’s additionally had a spin-off impact for work in different horror motion pictures: Killer Tongue, Wishmaster, The Mangler and Zombie Strippers.
Englund is within the present British horror movie Select or Die, with Asa “Intercourse Training” Butterfield and Eddie Marsan – about an 80s-style textual content journey recreation that involves life and begins killing individuals. Once more, Englund performs a fictionalised model of himself because the voice of the evil journey recreation. Scary.
So what would you wish to ask the person who additionally starred in three 80s miniseries of V, auditioned for each Han Solo and Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, voiced The Riddler within the 2005 animated sequence of The Batman, is a playable character in 2010’s Name of Responsibility: Black Ops and as soon as appeared in an episode of Married With Youngsters as The Satan. Who would win in tickling competitors between Krueger and Edward Scissorhands? Has he nonetheless received that jumper and hat? Does he gown up as Freddy on Halloween and frighten youngsters?
Please put up your questions within the feedback beneath by 6pm UK time (GMT +1) on 22 Might and we’ll monitor Englund down and print your solutions right here in Movie & Music and on-line on 3 June.
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