I am thinking that Freddy is best. He would kill pinhead because pin head is a talker, he would mutilate leather face because leather face would stare at him and wonder what the hell while freddy is cutting out his heart with his glove,and if he could go one on one with Jason; he could kill everyone else. I thought it would be funny if he pulled in the leprechaun into one of his nightmares, he would end up curled up in a corner shaking.
Originally posted by BackFire
I didn't say LeatherFace was the most powerful. I said he was the best.By 'best' I mean the most creative, inventive, interesting and frightening.
I find Freddy more creative and innovative because he's a dead guy that kills you while you sleep and he is very charismatic because of his lines and mind tricks. And that glove kicks some serious ass !
That's the problem, he's to likeable. Not scary or intimidating at all because of his comical lines. He's actually too cool..
Freddy really isn't all that creative, Nightmare on Elmstreet was an idea Craven had when he heard about people dying in their sleep mysteriously from terrrible dreams. He just took it a step further by making it be a killer killing people in their dreams. Their have been many legends similar to freddy krueger long before krueger existed.
LeatherFace was the first of all the big name killers. All of the other killers are basically one element of leatherface multiplied. Jason and Micheal are the intimidation factor of Leatherface, nothing more. Freddy is the comical aspect of LeatherFace and nothing more. Leatherface has both these aspects to himself, and then some. The fact that he isn't invincible and that his character is actually beleivable makes him terrifying on a completely different level then freddy, jason and Micheal.
Seriously, think about all the thought it must have taken to think of a character like LeatherFace, without having any prior characters similar to him to base him on. It's amazing.
This is why I claim him to be the best horror villian. He captured the numerous personality aspects of the other horror villians, all before they even existed.
Well I had no idea about the legends and even though Craven got the idea from there I still think it's creative that he is a killer. And on the sequels and stuff he got comical but on New Nightmare and on the first NOES he was a scary ****. And I could say the same about how Leatherface isn't creative since he was based on Ed Gein. But we all have our different opinions.