“A Nightmare on Elm Street” – Photo comics

Episode 5

I know what many of you might think now: “Original Freddy was also a child molester.” Well, at first let me repeat, as I already explained in episode 1, that I don’t accept anything but the first movie. So, whatever child molester allusion is made in “Freddy vs. Jason” or any other sequel, is absolutely unimportant for me. And about Wes Craven himself: Yes, it’s true that he originally intended Freddy to be a child molester. But then there were some real life child molestation cases and Craven didn’t want his movie to be connected to those real cases, so he changed Freddy from molester to murderer. That means: If it was something Craven intended and which was just not explicitly mentioned on-screen, we could still assume that it was implicitly there. But in the current case, Wes Craven actively removed any connections to child molestation. He reworked his conception of Freddy so that he doesn’t have anything to do with it anymore because Craven did not want any parallels to actual child molestation cases. So, it’s fair to say that the Freddy in the final version of the first movie was not supposed to be a child molester anymore. If they later retconned this decision and re-established Craven’s abandoned idea in a sequel, well that’s not my problem since I see the film as a standalone movie.
In this comic, I use a style break from my previous ones. Usually, I start every episode with an original scene and original quotes from the movie and only then does the sketch take another direction. This time, as you can see, I don’t do it and instead immediately start with a made-up conversation.