Freddy Krueger is a fictional character in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. He is a child killer who was burned alive by angry parents and returns from the dead to haunt and murder teenagers in their dreams. American Horror Story: Asylum is the second season of the FX anthology horror series American Horror Story. The season follows the patients and staff of Briarcliff Manor, a mental institution in Massachusetts.
In the episode “Nor’easter”, Freddy Krueger appears as a hallucination of Lana Winters (Sarah Paulson), a reporter who is investigating Briarcliff Manor. Freddy kills several of the patients and staff, and Lana is eventually able to defeat him by facing her own fears.
