Edward Underwood

Mister Edward Underwood, is a fictional child abuser and a minor character featured in the A Nightmare on Elm Street film franchise. Played by singer/songwriter Alice Cooper, he appeared in the 1991 film Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare.

Biography
Edward Underwood was a middle-aged man who lived in Springwood, Ohio in the 1950s. Very little is known about this man other than that he was an abusive alcholic. He had adopted a boy named Fred Krueger, who had been put up by his mother, Amanda Krueger.

When Freddy was a teenager, Underwood was shown to be fierce, and violent when it came to disciplining him. Whenever the urge struck him, he would whip Freddy with his belt as a form of punishment. Over time, Freddy became desensitized towards the violence, and some small part of him even took pleasure in it. During one of the whippings, Freddy grabbed the belt from Underwood and told him, "You wanna know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start using it." After which, he took up a razor blade and shoved it into Underwood's eye.

Notes & Trivia



 * Final fate: Murdered by teenage Freddy Krueger who stabbed him in the eye with a straight razor.


 * Freddy Krueger's daughter, Maggie Burroughs, entered Freddy's mind and caught glimpses of his past, including Mister Underwood.


 * Actor Alice Cooper is best known for his work as a singer and songwriter, and rock and roll icon. He has been active since the 1960s and is known for songs such as "Welcome to My Nightmare", "School's Out", "Feed My Frankenstein", and "Poison". Cooper's contributions to the horror genre also include writing and performing the song "He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)" for the 1986 movie Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives.