When
Wes Craven was just a young boy in elementary school he was
routinely harassed by an older bully. The bully was a classic "
movie bully" case
reveling in extorting lunches and milk money from
poor little Wes.
Guess what the bully's name was? You guessed it... Freddy Kruger!
Apparently, Wes was terrorized so much by this bastard that he remembered him all the way through his adult life. Young children can be especially impressionable and carry lasting childhood scars into adulthood. Now it was Wes Craven's turn to face up to the nightmare that was firmly embedded in the deepest recesses of his consciousness. And he did it in style too.
As you might have gathered from above post, Wes Craven has eternally equated the bully's name with the most horrid of all villains. Obviously, the real Freddy Kruger could not foresee such an ironic turn of events and is probably still suffering from consequences of Wes' truly devious and original comeback.
The moral of the story is: Don't piss people off or they just might turn around make your name an insult.