Could Freddy Krueger handle the social media age?

Heather Langenkamp doesn’t assume Freddy Krueger could be as scary right now as a result of he’d be changed into a goofy meme.

In the age of social media, it’s straightforward to think about what would occur with the teenage targets if the horror film took a extra practical strategy. No doubt one would cease to snap a pic of the killer and switch them into the poop emoji in actual time whereas one other would take a selfie proper earlier than the killer pops up for that closing scare. There, too, could be tweets alongside the strains of, “1,000,000 likes and i’ll remove this dude’s mask!” But how would the most iconic of slasher favorites fare with a lot social media round? For Freddy Krueger, it’s all about the memes.

Sitting down for a joint interview with ComicBook.com, Heather Langenkamp – who performed closing woman Nancy Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street – stated Freddy Krueger would lose a variety of his boiler room steam due to social media. “I mean, I almost think it’s impossible to have a scary character with social media because by the time you’ve already put out the scary side, there’s like 100 memes of you being ridiculous and they’ve figured out a way to humiliate you, so I don’t know if Freddy could even exist today…I see those memes the minute you’re trying to scare me, it’s like there’s a meme about something else.”

Robert Englund – who in fact performed Freddy Krueger throughout eight totally different movies – confirmed, “Freddy texts. I wonder if I could get my tongue in a smartphone,” referring to the scene the place a telephone Nancy is holding turns into Freddy’s mouth.

It doesn’t take a lot to get Freddy Krueger to wish to slice and cube, however we will completely see him getting pissed off when a tweet drops of him mid-blink, the caption studying: “My boy Freddy caught nappin’!”

For his half, Englund doesn’t see social media or the web enjoying a task in any facet of the Nightmare on Elm Street motion pictures, though it does have its place in fashionable horror. “I love the idea of technology being used as a tool in a horror narrative, I think I’m a sucker for that. I just think there’s probably better ways to do that than with the mythology of Nightmare on Elm Street.”