Seated with Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees at the center of the slasher movie villain pantheon, far away from second-tier baddies like Pinhead and Chuckie, Freddy Krueger has left an undeniable and indelible mark on the horror genre and greater pop culture landscape. Over the course of 35 years and nine A Nightmare on Elm Street films, Freddy has haunted the dreams of innumerable teens, both on- and off-screen. But what sets Freddy apart from his fellow antagonists is his jokes.
Whereas most other killers silently lumber toward their victims like unstoppable forces of nature, Freddy bounces around like a Tex Avery character spouting off the cheesy, pre-attack bon mots of an evil Roger Moore Bond. Sadly, not all of these quips are created equal. He’s at his best when serving a dad joke-style pun that would kill you from how eye-rollingly bad it was had he not already stabbed you in the heart. Occasionally, the Elm Street films will try to force Freddy into a purely scary territory and lose some of his appeal in the process. Other times, the witticisms are lazy, or else they've aged incredibly badly. (Rewatching these films is... an experience.)
We've gathered and categorized every cinematic Freddy quip, ranking them from the bad and problematic to perfection, meaning you have to scroll all the way down to find the best ones. The TV show, video games, and billions of other non-film things the character has appeared in are not included, because I wanted to finish writing this before I die.
Peak Freddy
Lines that incorporate humor, weirdness, and violence to capture the quintessence of what makes Freddy such a compelling villain.
“Mmm, the usual. Rick, you little meatball. I love SOUL food!”
–in Dream Master to a pizza covered in screaming meatballs, one of which he pulls off and eats
“Oh, Carlos. Lend me your ear…. Nice hearing from ya, Carlos.”
–before and after ripping Carlos’s ear off of his head in Freddy's Dead and held up later as a callback when he asks another victim to speak up, due to his “deaf ear”
“How’s this for a wet dream?”
–in Dream Master after bursting out of a water bed that had just contained a sexy naked woman being ogled by the horny dreamer
The Best One
“This is it Jennifer. Your big break in TV. Welcome to prime time, bitch!”
–in Dream Warriors while possessing a television before ramming the head of an aspiring actress through its glass screen, the pinnacle of Krueger lines
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