Freddy Krueger meets his match
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One of the comics published by Wildstorm's 'New Line Horror' imprint was a Nightmare on Elm Street series by Chuck Dixon. It was a mixed bag but it had some good moments, the highlight of which was the fourth issue.
In the first three issues, there was a subplot with a little girl who, being in a coma, could lapse back and forth between Freddy's world and ours without being hurt. At the end, she got a heart transplant and came out of the coma, but as this issue shows, her abilities didn't go away.


So the issue goes like this for a bit, with the little girl constantly harassing poor Freddy and generally making his life miserable and preventing him from carving up teenagers.




Cut for legality (the entire issue wasn't about Lacey's antics, after all) was a subplot with Freddy selecting a teenager on the "outside" to kill Lacey for him. He fails, and is mortally wounded by the police. The teen considers his fate to be a better alternative than falling asleep and risking Freddy's wrath.
At the end of the issue...

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Date: 2016-10-29 05:49 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2016-10-29 11:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-10-29 12:23 pm (UTC)Though they're also weird examples in that each of their first films are rather different from the rest - Friday the 13th's first film had Jason's mother as the killer and Jason didn't even get his iconic hockey mask until the third film. And the first two Nightmare On Elm Street films were darker and had Freddy's personality be rather different from the hammy wisecracker he is in films not helmed by Wes Craven. Amongst other things for both examples, you get the idea.
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Date: 2016-10-29 01:18 pm (UTC)But the general take away was that the sillier Freddy got, the more iconic he became and the less scary the films actually were. Conversely however, the Bay-produced remake kicked out any sense of black comedy or humour, and was the worse for it.
The same happened with Friday the 13th to a lesser extent, although despite the snobbery and moral hand-wringing of certain reviewers (here's looking at you, Siskel and Ebert, who actually put out the *addresses and contact details* of the filmmakers for the Friday series - what the fuck), some of the films - most notably I, III, IV and VI - were pretty good for what they were.
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Date: 2016-10-29 11:11 pm (UTC)Seriously???
What the hell is wrong with people.
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Date: 2016-10-30 03:17 am (UTC)Still a dick move, but not the life-destroying asshole move it would be today.
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Date: 2016-10-30 11:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-10-30 03:43 am (UTC)