10 Scariest Uses Of Make-Up In Horror Movies
3. Freddy Chases Tina – A Nightmare On Elm Street
Around the time of 1987’s A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, nocturnal slasher Freddy Kreuger’s quippy personality began to outshine his menacing potential.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it did mean that it became increasingly easy to forget just how threatening and eerie he was in the first two films. In particular, Wes Craven’s 1984 original presented Kreuger as a relentlessly ghoulish figure hellbent on toying with—and then brutalizing—his victims. No other sequence demonstrates that better than his proper introduction to the audience (alongside the ill-fated friend of protagonist Nancy Thompson, Tina Gray).
After falling asleep post-coitus at a party, Tina dreams that she’s walking around her blue-tinted neighbourhood at night. It’s already a surreal and atmospheric environment, and it only gets spookier once Krueger walks toward her with elongated arms and an exaggerated smile. He’s already a dismaying presence, but the creepiest section comes about a minute later, when he taunts Tina by cutting his fingers off and laughing. It’s a look of malevolent joy that gets more troubling the longer you stare at it, and it’s the perfect indication of just how delightfully deadly Craven’s creation can be.