Have you ever seen the “Nightmare on Elm Road” installment directed by “The Texas Chain Noticed Bloodbath” filmmaker Tobe Hooper? If not, do not fret, as a result of a large number of horror aficionados aren’t even conscious that the legendary American filmmaker as soon as had a dalliance with the Wes Craven-created franchise. However certain sufficient, the “Elm Road” spin-off anthology sequence “Freddy’s Nightmares,” which aired two seasons in syndication between 1988 and 1990, introduced on Hooper because the director of its pilot episode.
That episode, by the way, is among the many few really centered on Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund). Though Englund seems in each episode, most installments function Krueger solely as an announcer, introducing myriad horror tales set amid the desolation of Springwood, Ohio. The tales incorporate all kinds of supernatural components, leaping freely from idea to idea with every new episode; some, just like the Hooper-directed opener, are de-facto “Nightmare on Elm Road” sequels that includes Krueger as a main villain.
Not one of the episodes are written or directed by Wes Craven himself, whose function on the present is proscribed to a “characters created by” credit score. Maybe partially as a consequence of that lack of auteur enter, “Freddy’s Nightmares” was very poorly acquired by critics. However as horror anthologies go, it is a very stable one, imbued with the identical endearing corniness and disarming despondency that outline the entire franchise. And Englund, who nonetheless has nightmares concerning the authentic movie, is as in his factor as ever — whether or not sinking his claws into one of many storylines or doing his greatest Cryptkeeper.