A child killer who graduated on to killing teens in their dreams, Freddy Krueger ... and striped sweater ensemble he’s always sporting. But delve a little deeper into Freddy’s background ...

In 1984’s A Nightmare on Elm Street and its numerous sequels, Freddy Krueger typically prepares for a round of trademark depravity by donning a red- and green-striped sweater. The details of ...

Freddy Krueger’s burned face, signature fedora, red-and-green-striped sweater, and of course, his knives for fingers were terrifying and a real novelty at the time, but after nearly four decades ...

the hunting ground for one striped sweater-wearing killer. Or it was, as the focal point of the hit “A Nightmare on Elm Street.” Freddy Krueger haunted this home in the original film ...

4. Freddy Krueger’s sweater is scientifically scary. Craven designed Freddy’s striped sweater after reading in Scientific American that the human eye has difficulty recognizing those ...

With the release of “A Nightmare on Elm Street” 40 years ago, the horror villain Freddy Krueger clawed his way to becoming a pop culture phenomenon. By Jason Bailey When “A Nightmare on Elm ...