Wes Craven’s New Nightmare – Podcast Episode 48

Wes Craven returned to the series he created with the seventh film in the Nightmare on Elm Street series, but would bringing Freddy into the real world be the right direction to go?
Wes Craven returned to the series he created with the seventh film in the Nightmare on Elm Street series, but would bringing Freddy into the real world be the right direction to go?
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors was a turning point for the franchise that bridged the gap between the horror of the first film and the relative levity of the later later films. But is it any good?
Listen as chris and Joey dive deep into the original A Nightmare on Elm Street in part one of a ten part retrospective covering every movie in the Nightmare franchise!
With its stellar cast and clever direction by Bob Clark, the man who is also responsible for Porky’s and A Christmas Story, 1974’s Black Christmas is a holiday tradition at The Last Theater on the Left. Listen to episode 18 of the podcast as chris and Joey discuss why the film is so effective, how it served as a sort of midway point between the Italian giallo films and the American slashers that were to come, and how the movie’s chilling ending might have more to it than we see.