Wes Craven had a decades long career making scary movies, but nothing he made will outlive Freddy Krueger. In honor of the recently departed master of the slasher horror film, we watched Wes Craven’s two directorial contributions to the Nightmare on Elm Street series: 1984’s A Nightmare on Elm Street, and 1994’s New Nightmare. And we’re talking all things Freddy. What makes him so scary? Why are most of the films he appears in so bad? And what is the legacy of the man who created him?
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Next week on the Stake Podcast, we take a left turn: FROZEN. Let it go, y’all.
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