So, TL;DR – He selects his victims from those that he has a personal grudge against, or that know of him and are afraid of him and live in Springwood. Most material gleaned from the wikia and wiki entries for Freddy Krueger.

Over the course of the films, Michael killed a (confirmed) total of 81 people. If one counts his debatable killings, then he has claimed 85 lives. If his animal victims count, then he also has 85 confirmed victims.

1 Jason Voorhees – 151 Kills While Michael Myers was the first famous slasher movie villain, Jason Voorhees became the king in short order. Jason killed in eight of the nine movies in the original Friday the 13th franchise.

Freddy tortures animals and engages in self-mutilation, and becomes a serial killer by murdering the children of people who had bullied him when he was a child. Prior to his murder, he is married to a woman named Loretta (Lindsey Fields), whom he eventually murders.

Freddy Always Comes Back The Nightmare on Elm Street slasher is one tough killer. Bottom line: Freddy Krueger is immortal, despite being able to die in the real world.

Although Jason is supposed to be a fictitious character, there are striking similarities in the film to a series of grisly murders in Finland in the summer of 1960. Three teens were stabbed to death while camping at Lake Bodom. Moore isn’t the only killer who was influenced by horror movies when committing his crimes.

In her dreams, Freddy tortures Nancy and tells her that he saved her for last and that when she finally falls asleep, she’ll never wake up again. Awakened by her screams, Quentin hears Nancy in trouble and tries to wake her up, but Nancy can’t. So, he uses an adrenaline shot to wake up her up.

In A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, Nancy began working as a dream researcher at Westin Hills, trying to help the last of the Elm Street children from being killed by Freddy Krueger. Freddy finally killed her at the end of the movie.

Heather is hesitant as she has a stalker and is reluctant to do another horror film. After several nightmares of a disfigured man, Craven tells her she is the target of an ancient entity taking on a scarier form of Freddy. As Nancy is Freddy’s original nemesis, this being must kill her to be set free.

Some interpretations suggest that the audience has empathy for Jason, whose motivation for killing has been cited as being driven by the immoral actions of his victims and his own rage over having drowned as a child.

The “real-life” Freddy killed children using a gardening claw and lived in an abandoned factory until he was caught, imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital, and eventually died in his sleep.