This version of Freddy Krueger serves as the main antagonist of the 2010 remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Though his origin story is still the same, he has a more notable change in that he is a child molester rather than a child serial killer.
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The Freddy in this movie is much darker and his backstory is changed from a child murderer to a child molester who worked as a caretaker at an elementary school where the main characters went as children (the original idea Wes Craven envisioned for the character.) though other things, including his execution by the parents, remains the same. Freddy's motives this time around isn't just about killing the parents who lynched him but also resurfacing the repressed memories of the kids he molested who ended up being his downfall. Freddy is killed when Nancy slices his throat with a blade.
