Freddy vs. Jason
New Line and Paramount had been threatening to make a crossover Freddy vs. Jason movie since 1987, meaning they had 16 years to think of a way to get the […]
Tag Archives: A Nightmare on Elm Street
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
The cast and crew of the original A Nightmare on Elm Street get a rude awakening in this 1994 slasher sequel, when Heather Langenkamp (Heather Langenkamp), Robert Englund (Robert Englund) […]
Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare
Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) returned in 1991 for the “final” Elm Street movie, a promise unlikely to get anyone’s hopes up that it would really be the end. Like Freddy, […]
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
One year after Alice (Lisa Wilcox) vanquished Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) by pointing a mirror at him, he returns to haunt the dreams of her unborn baby, answering the age-old […]
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) is resurrected when a dog pisses fire on his remains (really) in this slog of a sequel from 1988. Abandoning the novel angle established by Dream […]
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest meets Stephen King’s It in this 1987 threequel, when the Elm Street kids wind up in a hospital for the criminally underslept. After being […]
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
A new family moves into 1428 Elm Street after getting a cheap deal on the hot (or very recently on fire) property, only to find its electrical appliances and household […]
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Since we’re covering the classics it is about time I reviewed one of my all-time favourites, the movie I reference more than any other; the film that did for sleep […]
Shivers
All this business with Dominic Cummings has got me thinking about David Cronenberg’s Shivers. Movies about viruses were spreading in the early ’70s (George A. Romero’s The Crazies and Robert […]
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Released a whole 4 years after Jason Takes Manhattan, Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday is yet another misleading title since a) he doesn’t and b) it isn’t. From the […]
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