It's A Nightmare Alright!

Recently my cable company added a station called CHILLER which I guess is suppose to compete with THE SCI-FI CHANNEL as they show old SF/horror TV shows from the '80's and '90's including something that ran from 1988-90 called FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES. Freddy of course being Freddy Kruger the annoying razors for fingers bad guy who invaded kids' dreams in the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET film series. I guess the franchise was still popular (or Kreuger portrayer Robert Englund had trouble landed better roles and needed a job) so what was more natural than to have a TV anthology in which Mr. K could act like a monsterous Rod Serling, make bad puns and occasionally even star in an episode or two? Well, it may sound good to you!

I was going to wait until I saw all the episodes to write about it but I might not be able to stand many more. The stories are terrible, very boring and stupid and occasionally Twilight Zone rip-offs. Then there's all those bad '80's hair-dos on the actors and actressses. The most interesting one I saw so far featured a very young Brad Pitt and Bill Moseley ("Chop Top" from TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2).

So Beware!