Send us your questions for Robert Englund, AKA Freddy Krueger
It’s hard to think of a horror movie character more iconic than Robert Englund’s Freddy Krueger. He stars in Wes Craven’s 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street and in sequels all the way up to (count ’em!) A Nightmare on Elm Street 6, Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, and features in 44 episodes of the 80s TV series Freddy’s Nightmares. In 1994’s Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, Englund played a fictitious version of himself who is being stalked by his own character. He brought Freddy back one last time in 2003 for Freddy vs Jason, where Krueger and fellow horror icon Jason Voorhees (Ken Kirzinger) from Friday the 13th are both resurrected and sent to hell. Best place for them.
It’s a role that has certainly kept the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arttrained US actor in business, as well as in demand for a constant flow of A Nightmare on Elm Street documentaries. It’s also had a spin-off effect for work in other horror movies: Killer
Tongue, Wishmaster, The Mangler and Zombie Strippers.
Englund is in the current British horror film Choose or Die, with Asa “Sex Education” Butterfield and Eddie Marsan – about an 80s-style text adventure game that comes to life and starts killing people. Again, Englund plays a fictionalised version of himself as the voice of the evil adventure game. Scary.
So what would you like to ask the man who also starred in three 80s miniseries of V, auditioned for both Han Solo and Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, voiced The Riddler in the 2005 animated series of The Batman, is a playable character in 2010’s Call of Duty: Black Ops and once appeared in an episode of Married With Children as The Devil. Who would win in tickling competition between Krueger and Edward Scissorhands? Has he still got that jumper and hat? Does he dress up as Freddy on Halloween and frighten children?
Please post your questions in the comments below by 6pm UK time (GMT +1) on 22 May and we’ll track Englund down and print your answers here in Film & Music and online on 3 June.
• Choose or Die is on Netflix now.