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Tag: Slasher film
Movie Retrospective: “Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare”
Despite featuring in three more movies after this, Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare really does represent the last solo appearance of this incarnation of Freddy Krueger…
Movie Retrospective: “A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 5: The Dream Child”
Before I continue my journey through the Elm Street movies, I was reminded of a very salient point while watching this fifth entry in the series.…
Movie Review: “Trespassers”
Reviews There’s a certain method or modus operandi for how I review films on Readers Digested that has developed over the last half-decade or so I’ve written them. I…
Movie Retrospective “A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 4: The Dream Master”
In 1988, the fourth instalment in the Elm Street series hit screens around the world and became the highest grossing entry in the series until…
Movie Retrospective: “A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 3: Dream Warriors”
The Elm Street sequel train keeps rolling with this 1987 entry in the franchise. Considered by many (yours truly included) to be the best of…
Movie Retrospective: “A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge”
It was inevitable that, following the success of “A Nightmare on Elm Street“, a sequel would follow and in 1985 “A Nightmare on Elm Street Part…
Movie Retrospective: “A Nightmare on Elm Street” (1984)
“I don’t know who he is, but he’s burned and he wears a weird hat and a red and green sweater, really dirty. And he uses…
Movie Review: “Friday the 13th Part 2” (1981)
As I prefaced with my earlier review of the original Friday the 13th film, in spite of my mad love for the slasher genre, I have…
Movie Review: “Friday the 13th” (1980)
The slasher genre has to be, at least in some ways, stitched into the very fabrics of who I am. I’ve told many different stories about…