Hana Mae Lee Interview: Fashion, horror and Freddy Krueger

1428 Elm: Thanks! I’ve been working with them for about two years now. I’ve always loved horror so much, that it’s great to be able to take all this useless knowledge and put it out there for other people to have access to.

Hana Mae Lee: I love that. You know, it is weird. Like you said, a lot of people are kind of ashamed of horror films, I never understood that. They do such a great job of what makes the movies so fun.

But, you’re right, a lot of them are like, “Uh, I don’t know.” I’m like, “What do you mean I don’t know? That was freaking awesome! You were so great!” I am glad that people are kind of embracing the horror now. I’m a huge, huge horror fan.

The old, like Freddy Krueger, the Tromavilles…the humor, the gore, you know, you can’t sleep because you think something’s gonna come out of the bed, like a chopped up body part or something. It’s real, the horror is real.

1428 Elm: What’s the first horror movie you remember seeing?

Hana Mae Lee: I walked in on my parents watching some vigilante Christian thing, I think. I don’t even know what it was, but it was somebody getting guillotined, and them holding the head at the end, and walking off into the dawn, and I was like, “What the f***?”

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I was probably something like four, and it scared the s*** out of me! I could not go to sleep, and I’d always sleep with the blankets over me to protect me, right? But I’m sweating, because I don’t want to lose my blanket protection.

After that, I just kind of got hooked, and I started watching all the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. Now when I watch them, I think they’re all kind of perverse and Freddy’s sexualizing everybody, but when I was little, it wasn’t like that, it was very scary.

I remember I had this one dream that I was Freddy Krueger’s wife, and I had these crazy knife hands, and everybody was jumping into an emptied out pool, and I could just hear their heads popping, because they would just jump in the pool. And Freddy was like, “You gotta do the knives now.” And I was kind of freaked out.

1428 Elm: Maybe you need to write a Nightmare on Elm Street sequel, and kind of incorporate all that into it.

Hana Mae Lee: Yes! That’s a good one, because there hasn’t been a Freddy wife or a Freddy girlfriend ever. That would be bad ass!

1428: Well, Hanna, it’s been fun talking to you, thank you so much for your time, and I look forward to seeing a lot more from you in the future.

Hana Mae Lee: Thanks!

You can see Hana Mae Lee in The Babysitter and The Babysitter: Killer Queen on Netflix.

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