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.

Last Updated: 2/21/2025Network: Status: Ended
Interior Loft Later
star
4.67
3 votes

#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.

Watch Now:Amazon
Prime Cut
star
5.25
4 votes

#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.

Watch Now:Amazon
Prisoner of Love
star
5.33
3 votes

#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.

Watch Now:Amazon
Dust To Dust
star
5.33
3 votes

#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.

Watch Now:Amazon
School Daze
star
5.60
10 votes

#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.

Watch Now:Amazon
Life Sentence
star
5.67
3 votes

#6 - 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.

Watch Now:Amazon
Interior Loft
star
6.00
3 votes

#7 - 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.

Watch Now:Amazon
Monkey Dreams
star
6.00
4 votes

#8 - 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.

Watch Now:Amazon
Welcome to Springwood
star
6.00
7 votes

#9 - 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.

Directors: Ken Wiederhorn
Watch Now:Amazon
Deadline
star
6.08
12 votes

#10 - 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.

Watch Now:Amazon
It's a Miserable Life
star
6.11
53 votes

#11 - 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.

Directors: Tom McLoughlin
Watch Now:Amazon
Heartbreak Hotel
star
6.17
6 votes

#12 - 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.

Watch Now:Amazon
Dream Come True
star
6.22
9 votes

#13 - 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.

Watch Now:Amazon
Bloodlines
star
6.25
4 votes

#14 - 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.

Watch Now:Amazon
Silence is Golden
star
6.25
4 votes

#15 - 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.

Watch Now:Amazon
The Art of Death
star
6.25
8 votes

#16 - 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.

Directors: Ken Weiderhorn
Watch Now:Amazon
Saturday Night Special
star
6.27
22 votes

#17 - 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).

Directors: Lisa Gottlieb
Watch Now:Amazon
Cabin Fever
star
6.38
8 votes

#18 - 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.

Watch Now:Amazon
Killer Instinct
star
6.38
42 votes

#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.

Watch Now:Amazon
Memory Overload
star
6.40
5 votes

#20 - 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.

Watch Now:Amazon
Judy Miller, Come On Down
star
6.42
24 votes

#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).

Directors: Tom Desimone
Watch Now:Amazon
Do You Know Where Your Kids Are?
star
6.50
4 votes

#22 - 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.

Writer: Wayne Rice
Watch Now:Amazon
Rebel Without a Car
star
6.59
17 votes

#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.

Directors: John Lafia
Watch Now:Amazon
Freddy's Tricks and Treats
star
6.59
32 votes

#24 - 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.

Directors: Ken Wiederhorn
Watch Now:Amazon
The Bride Wore Red
star
6.61
18 votes

#25 - 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.

Directors: George Kaczender
Writer: Howard Lakin
Watch Now:Amazon