The king of your nightmares

The horror movie genre wouldn’t be complete without the slasher film legends of Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, and Michael Myers.

Jason as a boy ‘drown’ at camp while the two teenagers who were supposed to be supervising while he was swimming were off somewhere having sex. The films center around either his revenge for the death of his mother (who killed those teenagers in revenge for the death of her son and was beheaded) or just gore for gore’s sake. If you were to dress as Jason for Halloween, all you would need are some casual clothes, a jaceket, a hockey mask, and some kind of weapon to kill with. A machete is generally the best choice.

Freddy was a despicable man who murdered children, but the law was not able to punish him accordingly so the parents of those children (and others) trapped him in a building and burnt him alive. Instead of simply being killed though, he became the stuff of their nightmares; literally. He manages to continue existing in the dream realm, but if he is in your dream and he hurts you; you will wake up with the same damage he inflicted. The look of this man is possibly the most fear-inducing of the three and hardest to replicate without wearing a mask. His skin is peeling and scorched, revealing muscle underneath, he wears black pants, normal black shoes, a red and green striped sweater, a black fedora hat, and his right hand is covered by a glove which razor sharp blades attached to each finger.

Michael Myers killed in his movies simply because he was insane. Insane, and possibly evil from birth. He wears a dark colored jumpsuit and a white mask with light brown hair attached. Bring a knife with you to the party for this one, he gets in stabby moods sometimes.

Of course all of these men/monsters are well known enough that merchandise has bubbled up around their movie empires and there are plenty of places to purchase all of the items I mentioned. This is one of those cases where it would be so much easier and cheaper to buy the costume, that attempting to make it yourself just seems silly.

Nightmare on Elm Street is a film that -unlike Friday the 13th- received both good reviews from critics and a great turnout at the box office. The movie (and sequels) center around the character of Freddy Krueger, a serial killer who had murdered at least twenty children and was sent to prison. He was however, released on a technicality and subsequently hunted down by the angry and upset parents of the children whose lives he had taken. They trapped him in a boiler room and burned him alive. In the film he is exacting revenge on those parents by terrorizing their remaining children with nightmares.

Freddy Krueger

A girl named Tina is the first to have these nightmares. In her dream she is being followed through a boiler room by a man with knives attached to his fingers, he claws her just before she wakes up. After she wakes though, she realizes that the place where he clawed her is bleeding. The following day when talking to her friend she realizes that this other girl had a dream very similar to her own. The two girls and their boyfriends spend the night in the same place, but while upstairs one couple experiences something terrible. The girl is caught by Freddy in her dream and killed, while in reality the boy watches as girlfriend is cut open with invisible knives and then dragged up and across the ceiling never seeing the guy in a Freddy Krueger costume. He is sent to prison for the assumed murder of the girl.

As the movie progresses the line between dreams and reality gets even harder to find, and characters one by one are killed. Eventually the remaining girl manages to drag Freddy from the dream world that he resides in, our to the real world and attempts to do away with him.

If everything that happened to you in your dreams had repercussions on your life, would you ever want to sleep again?

May we reconvene under the blood red moon,
-Black Widow