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Forer movies are not my thing. I'm just not a fan of gratuitous violence. I think when you've experienced real life blood and gore, you don't need to see it glamorized on film.

But, since the name of this week's episode is the Freddie Krueger Killer, I needed to find out what made our subject so interested in this particular fictional serial killer that it earned him this nickname.

In case you're not familiar with this movie character, Freddie Krueger is the villain of the horror franchise A Nightmare on Elm Street.

He terrorizes teenagers in a small Ohio town with a glove made of knives.

Sounds like your run of the mill slasher film, right? But what makes Freddie more frightening is that he only attacks his victims when they are asleep.

Which means that their dreams are literally living nightmares. Hence, one of the more famous quotes from the movie, whatever you do, don't fall asleep.

Freddie Krueger lives in a terrifying dream world where he is all powerful.

It is only when he gets pulled into the real world that Freddie loses his powers and becomes vulnerable.

And that may be the connection this week's killer, Daniel Gunsallis had with Freddie Krueger.

The 24-year-old British man had a long history of serious mental illness. And like Freddie, was vulnerable in the confines of the real world.

Daniel's dream world was fed by the slasher films he spent hours binging.

The world of horror was his playground.

When he embarked on a terror-filled three-day killing spree, the entire South Coast of England was gripped by fear.

Although he wore a white hockey mask and wielded a knife just like the killer in Friday the 13th, the other horror franchise he loved, the press named Daniel after his favorite character.

And for those horrific three days, the Freddie Krueger killer placed the residents of England in their own real life horror movie.

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