The Confession of Fred Krueger

Wow well for a start I really don't get why some people seem to downright hate this horror short so much, as I found it to be one of the better and more gripping short films to focus on an iconic horror character that I'd seen in a long while, I was impressed by how it actually managed to instil a little depth and a small measure of something akin to sympathy in a character as gleefully evil and cruel as Freddy Kruegar, but for me they did it by showing that Freddy's ultimate evil came from a tragic and hopeless place and just what a truly twisted fiend who never had a chance he really was... It's played completely straight and is a mini prequel that features a still living but already plenty unhinged and completely remorseless Freddy on the night of the confession of his grisly crimes against the innocent as he wavers between maniacally taunting his captors about the children he's murdered and lucidly going through some of the events in his pathetic nightmare of a life that led up to him discovering his wicked calling almost by accident, when, as a filthy vagrant he felt the first bit of power he ever did when a group of children were scared of him, a power he soon came to embrace and use against the helpless children of Springwood...

With the recent passing of horror master Wes Craven, you don't have to search hard to find people talking about the legacy and mark he's left on horror, filmmakers, and stories. His original Nightmare, released in 1984, introduced us to one of the most prolific characters in modern film, Freddy Krueger, who was played as equal parts dark, demented, and hilarious by Robert Englund.

Opens a window as far as what you can do with a fan film and where you cab go with it. It has in my opinion the best actor since Englund to wear the sweater.

There are a lot of mediocre (read: terrible) fan films out there. Most fan film creators are content to lazily and sloppily recreate scenes from their favorite films without presenting anything different or entertaining.

And it's partially hit, mostly miss for me.I watched the trailer when it came out and I thought it was derivative of other projects, but seemed to be shot well.

Same idea as it's 2011 counterpart, but more poorly executed. Further, the actor they found to fill Freddy's role just didn't fit very well.