The brilliance of Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street is the sense of inevitable doom. A key component of horror movies is audience surrogacy. We see characters and project ourselves onto them, asking what we would so in those...
Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. A return of sorts to the darker tone of the original, this flick involves Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) trying to get back into the real...
Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, the highest grossing film in the series. Blade wielding child killer Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) bumps off the heroes from A Nightmare on Elm Street 3:...
Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss “Sister’s Keeper,” the sequel to the pilot episode of the short-lived horror anthology TV series Freddy’s Nightmares – A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Series. Last time around, the cop who killed Freddy Krueger...
Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss “No More Mr. Nice Guy,” the pilot episode of the short-lived anthology TV series Freddy’s Nightmares. Focusing on the origin of Freddy Krueger, this tale starts when Krueger gets off all charges of child...
Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, William Thrasher, and special guest Russell Dyball (production associate for Shout! Factory) talk about A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. Wes Craven’s original screenplay was rejected but the final film features a script featuring work by wunderkind Frank...
Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher talk about A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, the first of many sequels about the teen dream murdering child killer Freddy Krueger. A new family has moved into the former Thompson household from the...
Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher talk the original A Nightmare on Elm Street from 1984. A group of high school students start getting picked off one by one by a ghoulish man in their nightmares named Fred Krueger (Robert Englund). As they...