{"id":3736,"date":"1999-06-01T00:01:07","date_gmt":"1999-06-01T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2018-06-19T20:44:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T20:44:10","slug":"was-freddy-also-a-child-molester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/was-freddy-also-a-child-molester\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Freddy Also a Child Molester???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/beyond-the-films\/books\/other-books\/\">Screams &#038; Nightmares: The Films of Wes Craven<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Although it was suggested in the original series, the official answer: no.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Englund recalls: &#8220;Wes wrote the most evil, corrupt thing he could think of. Originally, that meant Freddy was a child molester. Right while we were shooting the fist <em>Nightmare<\/em>, there was a huge scandal based around an area of single parent yuppies in California known as South Bay. Child molesters had descended on this unsupervised flotsam of seventies leftover Me-generation American children. On the spot we changed the script from child molester to child murderer, mainly so Wes wouldn&#8217;t be accused of exploiting the South Bay case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Child molestation is a driving plot point in Platinum Dunes&#8217; remake of the original <em>A Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em>. Their version of Freddy Krueger is different than the one presented in the original series and his motivations mirror what Wes Craven initially conceived for the character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from Screams &#038; Nightmares: The Films of Wes Craven. Although it was suggested &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/was-freddy-also-a-child-molester\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[52,226,240,296],"class_list":["post-3736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-brian-j-robb","tag-robert-englund","tag-screams-nightmares","tag-wes-craven"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8663,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions\/8663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}