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Jul 10, 2021 · Freddy's Nightmares has had several episodes released on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray, but never the entire show. Given the evergreen popularity of A Nightmare On Elm Street and Freddy Krueger, this is somewhat shocking, but not totally surprising.
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John Kenneth Muir in his book Terror Television (2001) placed Freddy's Nightmares as the worst of the horror television programs between 1970 and 1999. Muir found the series having uninteresting stories and that it's production was so low that it appeared to be homemade, and that it wasted the talents of Englund.
It took about four episodes for me to realize there was a reason it had been lost in time. Its bad... like really bad. Everything about the concept of this show on paper makes it sound like it should be a hit. It's Freddys version of Tales From the Crypt, and he's the crypt keeper.
I have nostalgia for the show, but I remembered it being very bad. This was from me watching it as a young kid, by the way. I tried watching it yesterday, and I turned it off after about 17 minutes of the first episode.
Oct 19, 2023 · The acting is mostly all over the place, with some of it being humorously bad, or having solid performers overdo it on purpose. There are numerous recognizable faces, especially from other...
As a child, Robert Englund was anxious to see a Western movie at a friend's birthday party, but he and his friends ended up watching The Bad Seed (1956) due to a mix-up at the theater. He said that for years, he was frightened of girls with pigtails.
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The show is actually pretty awesome. The first episode is a Freddy origin story. Everything after that is two different stories, and they're usually connected by one character. It's one of those times where the hokey acting and writing and stuff adds to the overall feeling of the show.
