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Is Freddy Krueger still alive at the end of the movie? Is he alive now?

posted 3 years ago by FunkyVerb (6)
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I've been watching all of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies in order of release. I just finished Wes Craven's New Nightmare. Now I have questions about how killable Freddy Krueger really is, and whether he's canonically still alive right now.

In part 6, they seemed to establish that the only way to kill Freddy is to bring him into the real world and kill him there. Killing him in the dream world doesn't do anything. In New Nightmare, Heather kills Freddy in the dream world, which means he's obviously not dead. Additionally, didn't Wes say that the only way to keep Freddy dormant is to keep making movies about him? The Nightmare on Elm Street remake (which I haven't watched yet) came out 11 years ago, so does this mean that canonically, Freddy is currently out there terrorizing Heather? It's a shame that they haven't made a new movie (such as a sequel to New Nightmare) to address this. Unless I'm misunderstanding something?

[–] Karl Aksel (1487) a year ago

This wasn't the same Freddy. In this movie, Freddy Kruger is fictional. The Nightmare movies are just movies - it's just that an unrelated demon is simply drawn to them and takes strength from them. The same rules do not apply.

The 2010 movie is a reboot, and does not follow any sort of pre-existing canon.

[–] DevonteHuntley (273) 3 months ago

To be fair since the demon is trying to replicate Freddy Krueger down to the appearance and clothing to an extent, I guess you can say the rules do apply since he only targeted people in their dreams.

As far as the 2010 reboot is concerned, the canon doesn't mean a thing when it comes to signaling the demon. The point of trapping him is simply making a movie that will keep him out of reality. Doesn't matter if it's canon to the original or its own thing. To answer the OP's question though I guess the demon would have unleashed again since it was only a three year gap between Freddy's Dead and the setting of this movie. Between 1994 and 2003, if Freddy Vs. Jason still existed in this world that's nine years. Then another seven between that and the reboot and from the reboot to now, it's fourteen years with no further movie. Safe to say that demon is out and causing havoc to Heather and Dylan and any associate of theirs.