FREDDY'S (NOT) DEAD: A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)

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CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, serial killers, gore, blood, child killers, death, trauma, child neglect.

You never expect 80’s horror movies to be quality cinema. But you do expect there to be some wild, ridiculous stuff that also has enough of an edge to be scary and terrifying. With the 4th installment of Freddy Knife Hands, the writers decided that none of this was necessary. No, instead we kill off the remaining Dream Warriors and tag along with a new heroine who literally does nothing. And we mean that literally - nothing happens in this movie until about the last 10 minutes, except for some intensely goofy Freddy murders and some terrible 80s acting. No, this one is truly dire, and the only hope is they can make it weird again before the end of this series. We discuss A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master this week on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!

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Intro and outro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.

Excerpt taken from “Anything, Anything (I’ll Give You),” written by John Easdale and performed by Dramarama. Copyright 1985, 1990 Chameleon Records.

Excerpt taken from “Take Your Daughter to the Slaughter,” written and performed by Bruce Dickinson. Copyright 1989 Zomba Recording Corporation; New Line Cinema Corporation.