10 Most Badass Horror Movie Survivors

Few horror movie victims have been personally targeted quite as much as poor Nancy Thompson of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise.

When Wes Craven unleashed Freddy Krueger on the world in 1984, not only did he give the horror genre a new classic bogeyman, but Craven also gave horror fans a new survivor to root for. After overcoming Krueger's dream-based attacks and torment, the end of that movie saw Heather Langenkamp's Nancy realise that she can escape the grasps of Krueger by simply ignoring him and showing no fear.

Unfortunately for Nancy, Freddy would finally get the better of her towards the end of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, with both our hero and our villain killing the other off. Well, that might be a bit of a stretch where Freddy is concerned, for he'd rise from his sleepy grave just a year later for 1988's The Dream Master.

While Dream Warriors killed off Nancy though, Nancy actress Heather Langenkamp would manage to get the better of Freddy in Craven's brilliantly meta New Nightmare in 1994.

That picture saw the fictional characters of Freddy Krueger turn up in the 'real' world inhabited by the actors and crew involved in making the Elm Street movies - which saw Langenkamp manage to go one better than her character of Nancy Thompson by finally defeating Krueger once and for all.

And by 'once and for all', that obviously discounts Freddy vs. Jason and the awful Elm Street remake.