Episode 73. Freddy Inc: A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Master (1988), A Nightmare on Elm Street:The Dream Child (1989), Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991), New Nightmare (1994), Freddy vs Jason (2013)

Faculty of Horror

Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West

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🗓️ 31 May 2019

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Andrea and Alex hit the hay one last time to discuss how Freddy became a marketing legend, a cultural sensation and an arbiter of taste. Transitioning from installments in the late ’80s to the ’90s to the early aughts, Freddy illustrates how slashers have evolved (or devolved) to become cultural icons. Class of 2019 T-shirts are […]

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0:00.0	The Oh, Oh, The Hi everyone and welcome back to the Faculty of Horror
0:57.6	Podcasting from the Horrid Halls of Academia I'm Alex West with Andrea
1:01.9	Subasati and we are back for our second episode on the
1:06.5	Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and how you feeling about that bitch?
1:10.7	Wow you know I that bitch. Wow. You know, I was listening to the end of last episode to remind me, just to remind me once
1:19.0	more which films, like where did we cut it off? Which ones are we going to focus on?
1:23.0	Which ones are we going to talk about tangentially?
1:24.7	And which ones are we going to deep dive?
1:26.3	And I heard myself saying,
1:27.8	it's not bad homework, guys.
1:29.6	It's not going to suck.
1:30.7	Like this isn't going to be bad for you it felt kind of bad for me.
1:34.5	Yeah I think the latter part of this franchise is definitely more shaky than the original three films and I knew that going in. I had a
1:46.3	couple pleasant surprises on rewatching some of these, some not so nice surprises with some of them.
1:54.0	Yeah.
1:55.0	And yeah, but I think there's so much to talk about and it's something that we've danced around
2:00.0	and touched on in different episodes about the kind of economics that go behind a franchise like this and the marketing and the promotion and how all of these things kind of flow together.
2:10.0	I agree. I'm going to get rid of the dog, BRB.
2:13.0	So, Nightmare on Elm Street, we're looking at an 8 movie franchise,
2:17.0	plus one if you count Freddie versus Jason,
2:20.0	plus another one if you count the remake,
2:22.0	which we're going to touch on really briefly
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