Freddy Krueger became a household name for the slasher craze. During the mid 80's the Nightmare sequels became comedic as Freddy was making jokes while doing his victims away and it inspired other filmmakers to make slasher films with killers similar to Freddy. Let's review some of there killers shall we?

Bottom Line: In the first flick, an insane killer named Russ Thorn with a giant drill escapes from a mental hospital and decides to do in teenagers having a slumber party at a nearby neighborhood. After he is killed he returns in the sequel reincarnated as a 50's greased rock star. The only sane survivor Courtney has nightmares of the killer returning and then killing his sister who is in a mental hospital since that night at the slumber party. Eventually Courtney's nightmares comes true while she is staying at a relatives condo for the weekend to jam with her all girl rock band and to be with their boyfriends. Russ certainly behaves like Krueger alright as this film steals from the Nightmare sequels. He slaughters people at the condo one by one.

Name: Angela Baker
Film: Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers/Sleepaway Camp 3: Teenage Wasteland
Year: 1988-89

Bottom Line: In the beginning Angela was a boy named Peter who lived with his Aunt Martha and cousin Ricky due to a terrible boat accident that killed his family and only gave Peter a head injury. Aunt Martha decided to dress him up as a girl while Ricky was staying at his father's house and named him Angela cause that was the name of his sister who died in the boating accident. Years later Angela and Ricky went to camp and Angela killed several nasty people. Angela was taken away to a psych ward and had a sex change. She was free after a few years there and returned to a nearby camp called Camp Rolling Hills as a camp counsellor. She did in naughty kids there using jokes along the way. Then a year later she returns to the camp disguised as a teenager doing her same evil deeds. The writer of the sequels tried to make Angela a Freddy Krueger type character since Nightmare was so big during this era which was very unlike the first one in 1983. Not only that, Angela was the only one from the original movie to return to the sequels since thwe writer wanted to take the sequels in a different direction. However, due to a lack of a good storyline to the sequels Angela makes a great killer using every deadly device she can think of.

Name: Chucky
Film: Child's Play
Year: 1988

Bottom Line: Chucky was a psychotic killer the police have been after. He breaks into a toy store one night and hides from the police but he is wounded from a gun shot. However, he uses a voodoo spell and puts his soul into a "Good Guys" doll. The police thinks that Chucky is dead. The next day a mother buys a "Good Guy Doll" for his son's birthday. Unfortunately she buys the doll that Chucky's soul is in. While her son is out playing with his doll Chucky ends up killing people using alot of profanity and jokes. Yes Chucky could be compatible to Freddy Krueger indeed.

Name: Hoax
Film: 9-7-6 Evil
Year: 1989

Bottom Line: Hoax was a shy nerd at a school who was constantly being picked on by bullies and abused by his religious fanatical mother (Similar to Carrie). He calls a toll call 976-EVIL which was a number his tough cousin Spike called but never knew Spike got into some dangerous moments. Hoax seeks revenge on his tormentors and slowly turns into a demonic killer using lots of Krueger humour. Of course this would be a Krueger type flick cause he directed it himself.