Iconic Horror Figure Hangs Up His Glove For Good

Written by Movie Knights

In 1984 our worst dreams had come true, as normally back then teenage thought having hormone and oversex drives were the problem with jason voorhees walking around, until a psychopathic child killer became something much worst when the parents took the law into their own hand and burn the man to death.

This was the combination of events that lead to one of the most iconic slayer film of 1984 as Robert Englund took on the role the child murdering Freddy Krueger who took the word nightmare to a whole new level as he invaded teenager’s dream’s.

Over 20 years Robert has play Freddy 8 time with certain famous quotes like “How sweet fresh meat” and “welcome to prime time bitch” which Robert did with so much style that brought the character out. Looking back it now was kind of campy for a horror back then but it was still a cult classic and still enjoyed by new fans to day

Since the last film Robert Englund did in 2003 with the battle of the century, special in film history as two iconic horror slayer’s went head to head in a blood soaked adventure with Jason vs Freddy spin off.
Robert never really return after 2003 to play the iconic character which resulted in a recasting for the iconic character in 2010 played by Jackie Earle Haley, But sadly didn’t quite hit the mark to revamp the franchise.

Most fan’s and critic would agree which i would mostly agree with as i do feel there were other elements that made the film bad, but the real reason why it flop accord to the fans and critics which they do agree on is because Robert Englund didn't reprise the role.

Now with the franchise kind of up in the air fans across the world are wondering whether Robert would reprise the role one last time, but sad news has come in that Robert Englund sadly won't be return as freddy krueger (You can just see as millions of people cry out and suddenly silenced at this bad news)

But there is a reason and it’s a good reason which i do agree or those sadden by this news, reason for him not reprising the role is because he too old to play the part again. In a interview with EW (Entertainment Weekly) Robert went on to say:

“I’m too old to do another Freddy film now. If I do a fight scene now, it’s got to be real minimal because I can’t snap my head for eight different takes and different angles. My spine gets sore,” Englund said. “I can still be mean and scary, but I’m mostly relegated now to sort of Van Helsing roles, old doctors, and shit. So it’s fun that the last moment of me ever playing Freddy is a wink to the audience.”

Which Referring to the wink he means the end credit scene of “Jason v Freddy”, although we have seen him do low budget less action film’s and we would’ve of loved to see him reprise this role, sadly it's official that the origin Freddy krueger is hanging up his glove once and fo