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WHAT WENT WRONG

A Nightmare on Elm Street

WHAT WENT WRONG

Sad Boom Media

Flop, Film, Film History, Blockbuster, Acting, Disaster, History, Tv & Film, Movie, Directing, Hollywood

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

This week Chris and Lizzie dive into Wes Craven's nightmares, bask in Johnny Depp's nauseatingly green performance, and marvel at Freddy Krueger's culinary inspired makeup. Plus, how Bob Shaye's leap of faith on Elm Street gave us Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings", Wes Craven's failed attempts to make a nice movie, and the unexpected benefits of setting yourself on fire, literally and otherwise.

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0:11.7

Hello, dear listeners. Before we get into our regularly scheduled programming, we wanted to extend our deep gratitude to anybody who made it out to our very first live show this last week.

0:22.4

Thank you also to anybody who watched the live stream via Patreon. It was truly a blast seeing

0:28.4

so many of you on there and in person, and we are excited to make this a more regular occurrence.

0:34.6

If you missed the first live show but still want to see it, fret not. We are going to be

0:39.6

releasing the full cut of the live show this coming Friday, October 17th on our Patreon. If you're

0:46.1

interested in watching, go to www. patreon.com and sign up for the $5 tier or above, and this Friday,

0:53.6

1017, you will get access to the full cut of our

0:57.1

first live show. All right, that's enough housekeeping. Without further ado, let's dive into

1:04.1

A Nightmare on Elm Street.

1:12.0

Cut, cut, cut, Hello, and action, and action,

1:12.0

Hello, and welcome wrong, your favorite podcast, full stop that just so happens to be about movies and how it is nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one, let alone the stuff of nightmares, sort of, arguably not scary at all, but very fun. I am one of your hosts, Lizzie Bassett here, as always, with Chris

1:45.0

Winterbauer and Chris. What does Freddie have for us today?

1:54.6

The most annoying sound effect.

1:57.4

It's just nails on the chalkboard. Came from one of the actors, as we will learn.

2:01.6

We are discussing the 1984 Slasher Classic, A Nightmare on Elm Street, a film that violates

2:09.6

one of the last places we believed to be safe, our dreams, or our nightmares, which was a very

2:16.6

inventive conceit, and I would argue, a quantum leap forward for the genre.

2:22.5

But Lizzie, before we get into all of that, I have to ask, had you seen a nightmare on Elm Street before, and what were your thoughts upon watching or re-watching it for the podcast?

2:33.0

So this is the one where I'm very familiar with all of the imagery,

2:36.2

very familiar with Johnny Depp being eaten by the bed.

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