After 23 years, Monica Keena is reliving her “final girl” moment in the ultimate horror crossover.
freddy vs jason The actress recalled why it was “really cathartic” to kill off Robert Englund’s Freddy Krueger after her performance in the 2003 Ronnie Yu-helmed slasher. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) made a song on him in his childhood.
“The first horror movie I saw as a child was A Nightmare on Elm StreetAnd it really hurt me,” she said nerd reactor. “I mean, it ruined my childhood. This was in second grade. It was horrible. I had to go to the pediatrician, my mom didn’t know what was wrong with me. I was losing all the weight. At school the teachers thought I was being abused at home.”
Keena continued, “Finally, she took me to the pediatrician, and she said, ‘What’s going on?’ I said, ‘You won’t understand.’ You won’t believe me because he doesn’t show himself in front of big people. Then he got really worried. I said, ‘There’s this guy, and his name is Freddy Krueger.’ He explains stuff to me. My mom went to the Brooklyn Public Library, she found a clipping of Robert Englund from a newspaper article… and she showed it to me, ‘He’s a real guy in real life, he’s not Freddy Krueger. He is just a character. And I stuck it on my little childhood bed. It was on my wall for years.”
In freddy vs jasonKeena starred as Springwood teen Lori Campbell, who ultimately beheads Freddy Krueger after learning that he murdered her mother, and sends her to a watery grave with Jason Voorhees at Camp Crystal Lake.
“And I always said, ‘When I grow up, I’ll be an actress and I’ll never make movies that scare little kids.’ And then, here I am,” Keena quipped. “But the whole thing is that it was really cathartic because I had to kill him. Eventually I had to kill him.”
In his latest horror outing Last Chance MotelKeena stars alongside Heather Langenkamp, who played Krueger’s original “Final Girl” Nancy Thompson in the first film. A Nightmare on Elm Street The film and several sequels.