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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - Dust To Dust
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/25/1990
In this follow-up to "Prime Cut", three recovering cannibals have an unfortunate relapse and wind up eating an intruder who is been afflicted with a strange disease.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - Monkey Dreams
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/1989
In this follow-up to "Memory Overload", a gambling-addict lab researcher must race to complete his work before his bookie's enforcers show up to collect. In the second half, another researcher has nightmares about his treatment of a chimpanzee test subject.
#8 - Welcome to Springwood
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/1989
Doug and Roxanne move to Springwood, but while Doug's at work, Roxanne begins to unpack and discovers that a mix-up with the movers has left their house filled with someone else's possessions – in the boxes she finds bloody knives and shredded dresses. Meanwhile, Emily discovers a stack of 19th century love letters hidden behind a panel in her new home, and she begins to envision the relationships of the authors.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#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.
#13 - Bloodlines
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/1989
An escaped convict (Marc Alaimo) returns home to retrieve the money he hid from a bank robbery, and discovers his son is bitter and his wife (Sheree North) has lost her mind. Later, a couple (Chris Nash, Ruth de Sosa) illegally adopts a baby, but as the little girl (Irina Cashen) grows, her new parents come to the realization that she may be evil.
#14 - Silence is Golden
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/1989
After accidentally assaulting a mime, obnoxious radio disc jockey Rick Rake is tormented by the clown. Meanwhile, it turns out that the mime is also a burglar who learns that the last people he robbed were also killed.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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).
#17 - Cabin Fever
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/19/1989
An airline heir discovers he is on a flight to Hell. A flight attendant thinks she has found Mr. Right.
#18 - Memory Overload
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/5/1989
Professor Windom is a man with a drinking problem. But he has to get over his fears, and quickly, as a former student of his is in a lot of problems and needs his help. The second half of this episode is about Barbara, who is a bitch at work. She starts getting stressed out when her computer starts talking to her and believes she's going to be in trouble with the cops for tax evasion. Unwittingly she jumps into her computer to stop the certain file from being saved.
#19 - Killer Instinct
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/23/1988
A runner (Yvette Nipar) accidentally kills her rival (Lori Petty) by using a magical charm she stole from her that lets whatever she is imagining happen.
#20 - 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.
#21 - Judy Miller, Come On Down
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/6/1988
Judy Miller (Siobhan E. McCafferty) wins big money on a game show, which solves life's little nightmares while creating newer, more tragic nightmares. The episode features Susan Oliver as the maid (and Judy Miller's future self).
#22 - Freddy's Tricks and Treats
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/30/1988
A college student (Mariska Hargitay) is tormented by Freddy after he hears that she does not believe in him.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#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.