Nightmares

Seven Nights, Seven Nightmares, Part VII

October 31, 2006 – 11:33 am

Wes Craven returns, and in a big way. Thank the Gods. Wes Craven’s New Nightmare is a blessing from heaven. It’s not very good, l and I think that it says a great deal about the caliber of the films before it that I like it so much. Relatively, it’s a pretty nifty film. But […]

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Seven Nights, Seven Nightmares, Part VI

October 30, 2006 – 2:27 pm

We’re getting close to the end. Six films in and the fatigue is beginning to take its toll. I can’t get myself excited about watching this one, but I slide the disc in and kick back with a bottle of Delirium Tremens. The New Line logo does its thing… Okay, we’re already guilty of hubris. […]

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Seven Nights, Seven Nightmares, Part V

October 28, 2006 – 2:00 pm

And that’s it. Unfortunately, now that the fourth movie is done and the fifth one is underway, I fear I won’t have anything interesting to talk about. We’re dropped immediately into a blue-filtered sex scene. Oh wait. I put on an old Michael Mann film by accident. No wait. I didn’t. This is the right […]

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Seven Nights, Seven Nightmares, Part IV

October 27, 2006 – 6:22 pm

“I’ll see you in Hell!” “Tell ’em Freddy sent ya!” It’s Renny Harlin’s turn. Welcome to Action Freddy! Patricia Arquette declined to return for this entry into the series. Tuesday Knight takes over the role of Kristen Parker, the former asylum resident who helped tromp all over the Bastard Son of a Hundred Maniacs in […]

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Seven Nights, Seven Nightmares, Part III

October 26, 2006 – 5:16 pm

On February 27, 1987, New Line releases what will prove to become, aside from the first Nightmare, the favorite of fans worldwide. It’s a far better film than the second, even without Clu Gulager. But I’m gonna go on record here and say that it just isn’t my favorite, or my second or even my […]

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Seven Nights, Seven Nightmares, Part II

October 25, 2006 – 12:00 pm

“You’ve got the body, I’ve got the brains!” A year after the first Nightmare movie made a splash, New Line releases its sequel. November 1, 1985 was the date. Made for just under double the budget of the first one, it goes on to gross ten times that amount, pulling in $30 million during its […]

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A Nightmare On Elm Street

October 24, 2006 – 12:00 pm

November 16, 1984. Where are you when the first Nightmare came out? Me? I’m working at Movies Twin in Santa Fe. It’s a quaint (even for the time) twin theater in De Vargas Mall at the edge of town. A handful of us are on staff that night, the night before the film’s release. We’re […]

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Seven Nights, Seven Nightmares

October 23, 2006 – 1:58 pm

We’re down to the final week before Halloween. That’s right, tomorrow will be seven days before the big day. And guess what? There are seven movies in the Nightmare On Elm Street series. It’s just one of those weird things. I happen to love that series, warts and all. So I’ve decided to get really […]

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