Freddy's Nightmares

Its not as good as the movies but its watchable. I enjoyed Sisters Keeper the best as it was a good story and it has a truely disturbing end! If there's nothing on TV to watch then go rent this its not as awful as it sounds.

This series was started after the awful Nightmare on Elm Street 4. Freddy's original character was by now completely obscured by feeble wisecracks and, of course, the money-minded dross industry who realized they had a cash cow on their hands. Actually, some of the episodes in this series are better than some of the later Freddy films. 'End of the World' is an interesting and thought-provoking tale about the nuclear threat. There are also other strong episodes involving crystals which can turn daydreams into nightmarish reality, machines capable of watching dreams and the like. The pilot episode re-writes the Freddy myth but is still entertaining and well-made.

However, there are also a lot of episodes which are no more than an excuse for a series of rather unimaginative surreal images and occasional unfunny 'jokes' from Freddy. These come across as very tedious. 'Saturday Night Special', for example, is just complete trash.

But if you can get hold of the better episodes then do so, as they make good viewing.

i know technically this isn't the greatest TV show ever,i mean it was shot on video and its limitations show in both the audio and visual aspect of it.the acting can at time be also a little crumby.but,i love this show so much.it scared the hell out of me when it first aired in 1988.of course it would i was 5 years old.but i recently purchased the DVD of the first 3 episodes,which unfortunately i hear is now deleted.and i also heard warner's aren't going to release any more due to the first DVD's bad sales.also the TV show didn't have the same feel as the movies,in fact i thought it had a more sinister tone.even though the colour palette is similar to nightmare on elm street 4(both that film and the TV show were made the same year),this has more of a serious tone whereas the fims were progressively getting more and more sardonic and jokey.not a bad thing,i like freddy as the clown wise cracker.but i think that was the strenght of this TV show,you didn't have freddy popping up every minutes cracking a joke before and after he kills somebody.in fact this has more of a dream feel to it,reinforced by the soft focus of the lense.im not sure if its deliberate on the part of the shows creators or just to the limitations of being shot on video. i love this show,and taken not as a companion piece to the movies can be very enjoyable.much better than anything on TV today.

Very similar to other series of similar nature like Tales from the Crypt and Hitchcock earlier. Roles within relationships and the familiy within a capitalist culture are common themes the scripts revolve around. Vanity and power struggle often central, ultimately leading to the premature deaht of the characters. From this perspective theyre is a moral values, christian in nature, twist to the series. Freddy take on justice for a social Faux pas is a comically grotesque death served up with one of his infamous cheesey one liners.. I only saw a few episodes when I was young and am now really enjoying the full series I recently got hold of. They are fairly well written but its really a nostalgic journey for me back to the 80s. What can you say, the 80s was a strange time, when even grisley fictional charaters like Freddy Kruger could become a cultural icons.Its part of being an 80s baby lol. Its hard to find a series as emblematic of the 80s as this, from the culture struggle of social identity, to the hair cuts, music and sets. Having a morbid sense of humour was also an essential social must.

Definitely nostalgic, and I liked the bridge between the first segment and the second one through a minor character in the first segment having more prominence in the second one. Sure, some episodes lacked the Freddy element, but still worth reflecting upon.