The WORST episodes of Freddy's Nightmares
Every episode of Freddy's Nightmares ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Freddy's Nightmares!
Based on the Nightmare on Elm Street film series, Freddy's Nightmares: A Nightmare on Elm Street the Series is an anthology show hosted by Freddy Krueger. Krueger sometimes appeared in the episodes, but often he just hosted the strange, Twilight Zone-like stories about the residents of Springwood's nightmares. Episodes consist of two stories, usually with a small character from the first half of the episode becoming the focus of the second half. In an unusual move for an anthology series, many episodes had a sequel which documented the further adventures of characters who had previously appeared.
#1 - Prisoner of Love
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/4/1990
A priest who is giving the last rites to a woman on death row is seduced, and he plans an unimaginable escape from the death house with a tragic ending. Violet Rodriguez tries to escape the same way as the other prisoner tried, hopefully with better results.
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#3 - Interior Loft Later
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/4/1990
In this follow-up to "Interior Loft", an artist (Robert F. Lyons) fakes his own death to both increase the value of his work and avoid prosecution for the accidental death of one of his models. Trapped in his apartment, he becomes stir crazy and accuses his wife (Fabiana Udenio) of having an affair. Later, two ladies (Leslie Bega, Tory Polone) reluctantly agree to let a guy (Dean Fortunato) move into their loft, and he quickly begins playing them both.
#4 - What You Don't Know Can Kill You
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/7/1990
A lecherous psychiatrist who hypnotizes and seduces his female patients is caught in the act by a colleague, so he hatches a devious plot to get out of doing time. Meanwhile, a dyslexic man who accidentally murdered the psychiatrist under a trance is convinced by his girlfriend to undergo surgery to alter his appearance, but the face they choose also belongs to a mobster.
#5 - It's My Party and You'll Die If I Want You To
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/24/1989
In this sequel to "Photo Finish", a fake psychic (Gwen Banta) gets possessed by Freddy during a trance and Krueger, using the psychic's body, starts killing people off. The second half is about Freddy crashing his class reunion to seek revenge on a girl who stood him up at the prom.
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#6 - Do You Know Where Your Kids Are?
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/1989
In this follow-up to "Bloodlines", teenager Lisa (Suzanne Tara) agrees to swap babysitting duties with her friend, Heidi (Julie St. Claire) as a favor. She discovers that a relative who is locked in the family's cellar wants revenge - even invading her dreams to get it.
#7 - Life Sentence
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/11/1990
In this follow-up to "Prisoner of Love", Andy Caulfield is a prisoner who is about to get parole, until he is faced with a prison counselor who also happens to be a relative of one of his victims. The second half centers on Warden Hendler, who is using prisoners as guinea pigs to test a new drug for extracting vital information, until the experiment backfires with drastic results.
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#8 - Prime Cut
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/21/1990
During a camping trip, a female tracker's strange behavior leads the men to believe that she may be a vampire. Later, plane crash survivors are forced to eat the corpses of the dead to survive. As the fiancee of one survivor desperately searches for the wreckage, an escaped convict also wanders through the mountains.
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#9 - Easy Come, Easy Go
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1990
In this follow-up to "Lucky Stiff", Greta, who has already murdered to avoid sharing her first husband's lottery winnings, devises a plan to rub out her current husband. Later, Greta finds out a deep, dark family secret when her sister Peggy drops in with her new husband for a surprise visit.
#10 - School Daze
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/12/1989
Steve Dart a student at Springwood High School decides to take it easy to escape stress. When he is called to the principal's office he starts having nightmares and soon discovers the high school's shocking secret. In the second half, Matt is a young Springwood High School student whose SATs are coming up soon. He begins to have strange nightmares and illusions of his life if he fails his SATs.
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#11 - Deadline
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/29/1989
A washed-up newspaper editor is given a story of a lifetime, but finds out the paper tells the future, and sees an article about him committing suicide.
#12 - Dream Come True
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/8/1989
A therapist who tries to help a boy suffering from repeated nightmares about Freddy Krueger winds up dreaming about the killer as well. Meanwhile, a cameraman who wants to settle the question of Freddy's existence for good gets drawn into his own news story.
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#13 - The Art of Death
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/12/1989
A young artist's comic is brought to life; A claustrophobic woman is tormented by her roommate's friend.
#14 - A Family Affair
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/18/1990
In this follow-up to "Silence is Golden", Paul scorns his lover, Claire, making him resort to drastic measures to ensure his family never learns of their affair. Later, a guilt-ridden man who is trying to reconcile with his son learns that it is not possible to cheat death.
#15 - Interior Loft
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/28/1990
After Kim leaves her job to pursue her dream of writing a novel, her husband, David, convinces her to make an erotic recording on a 976 number to bring in extra cash. But Kim starts to have a mental breakdown when an obsessed caller begins murdering. Meanwhile, after reading Kim's manuscript, David wonders if Kim has herself assumed the murderous, sexually deviant personality of the heroine of her novel.
#16 - It's a Miserable Life
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/16/1988
A fast food employee (John Cameron Mitchell) hates his life, but when someone robs the restaurant, his life gets a little more interesting; Meanwhile his girlfriend (Lar Park Lincoln) is tormented by hospital staff after she was shot.
#17 - Heartbreak Hotel
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/15/1989
A tabloid reporter learns that the stories he has been fabricating are coming true when he is sent into the field to write about an Elvis sighting; an amnesiac whose memory is returning in bits and pieces worries that he may have killed someone.
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#18 - Saturday Night Special
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/13/1988
Two nobodies yearn for perfection. Gordon (Scott Burkholder) fantasizes a dream date with a sex goddess, Lana (Shari Shattuck).
#20 - The End of the World
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/15/1989
A woman discovers she can change events that happened to her in her childhood, altering her life. Soon she is discovered by the CIA and they use her to prevent a nuclear disaster.
#22 - The Bride Wore Red
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/18/1988
Jessica (Diane Franklin) is a newlywed with deep-seated fears of infidelity and divorce brought on by her cheating, domineering father. She becomes an avenging angel who seduces and exposes cheating husbands, but the disintegration of her parents' marriage drives her insane.
#23 - Black Tickets
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/1989
Rick (Brad Pitt) and Miranda are teenage lovers who leave Springwood. Their car stalls so they check into a hotel, but the hotel is run by sadistic hicks. Also Miranda is pregnant but is trying to hold down her job.
#24 - Rebel Without a Car
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/11/1988
Alex (Craig Hurley) finds an abandoned muscle car to be his "ticket out of Springwood". Instead he keeps envisioning the fate of the previous owner. Connie (Katie Barberi) is determined to belong to a sorority, but the initiation process puts her through her own private Hell.
#25 - Sister's Keeper
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/20/1988
In this sequel to the pilot episode, the twin daughters of the cop who killed Freddy are now being haunted by Freddy so the twins plot to find a way to get Krueger out of their dreams for good.