After being burned alive by the parents of his victims, Freddy was given supernatural abilities by a trio of demons. Now, a powerful demon himself, Freddy returned to the neighborhood to get revenge on the parents that burned him, by killing their children.

In the original movies (those covering from Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street to Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare), it was explained that while he burned, he was approached by Dream Demons who made him an offer: they would give him immortality in exchange for being their agent, allowing him to continue his ...

King was also an avid reader of EC horror comics, and in his memoir On Writing, he shared that from an early age, he was scared of many things, so one of the reasons he started writing horror stories was to drown that scariness of his mind.

"The Shining" (1980)\n\n King famously hates director Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of "The Shining." However, it's still the absolute scariest film based on King's work ever made.