Lets admit it.....

I totally agree!

You didn't think it was bad in the 80's though (probably... I don't know you... Haha...). It's only when we watch it now that we cringe "did I find this scary/good/watchable etc."?!

I first saw one episode of this series in 1990 when Iwas on a so called "language travel'" to Hastings, UK (I'm Swedish). I managed to buy one vhs with the first two episodes and I was so proud. I was 14 yrs old at the time and I came home a hero, I showed this new Freddy-series to all my friends (hyping it, if you will, didn't know that concept back then, though...)

The series was never aired in Sweden, though. Until now. One of our "channels you pay for" (don't know what you call it) has started airing it. Fenomenal! Nostalgia rules!

But, back to the subject: it is really, really bad. The stories are bad, the acting is bad, the "effects" are bad... How bad did Robert Englund need money at this time, is my question?

I'd really like to see all episodes, just for fun, but it is definitely not a "need-to-see-before
-you-die".

Anyone who had seen the whole series? Favorite episode?

Well no, can't say I agree.

It's dated yes...but there are still some really good stories in the series.
The show had a unique double story per episode thing going on and over the series the universe grew and you'd have sequel and prequels to other episodes and references/tie-ins too.
It was a really good anthology show one worth paying attention to.


The thing the I felt ruined it was tying into the Nightmare series. All the Freddy stuff was inane and became a distraction over the actual storytelling. Freddy's interruptions were annoying.
It's a shame they didn't put more effort into it and relied on it riding on the success of the Nightmare film series instead of treating it as the unique anthology show it really was.
I've always felt if they had removed Freddy from the show and just made an anthology TV series, it would have faired better.

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Well I don't agree. Cheesyness aside, there were some really smart scripts for this show (granted, not all of them).

I remember "it's a miserable life" it was easily better than a lot of tales from the crypt episodes. From the moment he takes the bullet in the head you think it was a dream whereas in fact he realy took it and is now living a nightmare during the few seconds the bullet is entering in his head. While the dream is going further, the violent noises in his head increases (parallel to the bullet going deeper in his brain in reality), when he looks down blood drops in the floor as he had a hole in his head, towards the end of the dream it drops more than at the begining. I specially loved the bit when he enters his room, turn on the radio and hear the news of someone who has been shot in springwood last night (which was obviously the news of his own death but he didn't get it, and neither did I the first time I saw the episode, but i'm a little dumb).



I also loved the unique "nonsensical" mood of the show. Everything seemed indeed over the top but totaly intended, as to give the same non-sense feeling you have in your own dreams.



To bad second season ruined everything.



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If you watch Movie Defense Force (or just the episode with Freddy Vs Jason), Jim Stirling hits the nail on the head when he said that we tend to look at the movies with a nostalgic view.

I have 1-4 and I've seen 5-6 but, if I were to take a cold, clinical look at the movies, I'd have to say that the movies were also cheesy 80s/90s horror with bad acting. There really wasn't a whole lot of breakout performances in horror then. (For the most part, that still holds true today.)

Fortunately, I can still take joy in it anyway.

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I don't think anyone ever thought it was a "good" show. Even when this show was in production, I doubt too many of its viewers thought it was gold. But if you were a fan of the franchise and the Freddy Krueger character, then you could appreciate having this as something else related to it.

That's exactly right. They were THAT bad they were good. It's an old cliché with 70's and 80's movies. The cheaper low budget c**p can be the better stuff to watch.

I'm afraid we're gunna need cover sheets on all TPS reports now. Did you get that memo?