Freddy's Nightmares

Freddy, the dream serial killer, hosts this anthology of stories set in Springwood.

1988 HD 60min TV-14 United States English

Wes Craven Robert Englund

Horror Thriller

anthology horror anthology dream psychotronic nightmare

S1E1 - No More Mr. Nice Guy 1988-10-09

Tonights episode is all about a fellow who decides that the best way to get ahead is to stomp on everyone in his path.

S1E2 - It's a Miserable Life 1988-10-16

To most people a bullet to the head spells death, but to these unfortunate drive-by shooting victims, it becomes something far worse.

S1E3 - Killer Instinct 1988-10-23

Chris Ketchum wants to be the best runner on her track team just like her mother was. Her coach gives her a talisman that once belonged to her mother. Soon Chris discovers that whatever she imagines becomes reality.

S1E4 - Freddy's Tricks and Treats 1988-10-30

Its Halloween and the students are having a blast at the costume party over at Springwood College. Marsha would rather study than party however. Someone wants to be her study friend and soon Marsha starts to have nightmares. Her dead crazy grandmother comes back to life, Marshas boyfriend is killed and soon she finds herself in the hands of Freddy Krueger. She tries to escape by going to a dream clinic where dreams are recorded only to find out that there is no escape from Freddy.

S1E5 - Judy Miller, Come On Down 1988-11-06

Judy Miller wants more than anything to win the lottery. Her obsession is challenged when a housekeeper comes to warn her about her greed.

S1E6 - Saturday Night Special 1988-11-13

Two nobodies yearn for perfection. Gordon fantasizes a dream date with a sex goddess, Lana.

S1E7 - Sister's Keeper 1988-11-20

In this follow-up to ""No More Mr. Nice Guy"", Freddy continues to stalk the last remaining Elm Street children by going after the Blocker twins.

S1E8 - Mother's Day 1988-11-27

Billy has just moved into the old Krueger house. He falls for a pretty teenage girl who convinces him to throw a party while his parents are away. The girls mother is being harassed by a mysterious caller on the radio.

S1E9 - Rebel Without a Car 1988-12-11

Alex is a shy teenager who just wants to fit in. He wants to have a cool car just like everyone else does and he gets his wish but he soon regrets it. Meanwhile Connie wants to be accepted into a college frat house but she also gets more than she bargained for.

S1E10 - The Bride Wore Red 1988-12-18

An about to be married man goes to a bar where his friends are throwing a bachelor party. There he meets a female stripper who wants to keep him away from his fiancee. Meanwhile Jessica starts to have a nervous breakdown when her parents announce that they are getting a divorce.

S1E11 - Do Dreams Bleed 1989-01-08

A mysterious killer called The Chopper is terrorizing Springwood using an ax to kill his victims. High school student John Warring witnesses the latest murder and starts having nightmares about the killer. His girlfriend starts to do a little investigation on The Chopper

S1E12 - The End of the World 1989-01-15

As a child, Amy was in a terrible car accident that claimed the life of her mother. She is haunted by nightmares of that tragic event. She soon learns that her dreams are a way of changing the past. Amy is also haunted by visions of a deadly holocaust.

S1E13 - Deadline 1989-01-29

A newshound finds himself too involved with the obituaries he has to write. Also Emily is the only survivor of a car accident that claims the lives of her friends but their spirits and a strange man torment her.

S1E14 - Black Tickets 1989-02-05

Rick 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.

S1E15 - School Daze 1989-02-12

Steve Dart a student at Springwood High School decides to take it easy to escape stress. When he is called to the principals office he starts having nightmares and soon discovers the high schools shocking secret. Also Max must work for his uncles pizza restaurant and he too discovers a shocking secret.

S1E16 - Cabin Fever 1989-02-19

Carl is a nervous man on a plane who is freaking out over some delusions of weird events. Meanwhile, a woman is stalked by a bunch of weirdos who abduct women and keep them for show and tell.

S1E17 - Love Stinks 1989-02-26

A deeply disturbed girl sets her sights on a teenage boy which leads to a horde of terrible nightmares. Max must work for his uncles pizza restraunt and discovers a shocking secret.

S1E18 - The Art of Death 1989-03-12

Jack meets a man named The Phantom who says he was created by Jack through his drawings. The Phantom gets Jack to draw events that he wish could happen, and then they do. Jack trys to get the girl he likes in school, but it all goes wrong. The second half is about Joan living with her severe case of closterfobia. Her nightmares get a little out of hand and ends deadly all thanks to our freind freddy.

S1E19 - Missing Persons 1989-05-07

Our freind Freddy return in another fun fill ride. Gina is faced with her childhood past while babysitting. Is about a man who is tired of his life so on his way to work he imagines that hes someone else. But when his fantasy of being another person is over, he finds that its more real than he thought.

S1E20 - The Light At the End of the Tunnel 1989-05-14

Michael, a man in his thirties who is dead scared of the dark. All that has to change when he starts work, fixing pipes in the dark sewers.A sleazy video store owner who gets his, by reliving nightmares without the possibility of ever waking up.

S1E21 - Identity Crisis 1989-05-21

Buddy Powers is having a hard time dealing with his son and new boss.Both of them value money and Buddy values peace and love. Buddy wnats his boss dead. Christina is wondering if she is adopted because there are no similarities between her and her mother.When Christina asks her mom questions about her past, she doesnt get the answers she wants.

S1E22 - Safe Sex 1989-05-28

A teenager is in love with a goth girl who is obsessed with Freddy Krueger. The teenager is soon plagued with dreams involving Freddy. The second half is about the goth girl having nightmares about Freddy, who she soon learns theres nothing great about Freddy.

S2E1 - Dream Come True 1989-10-08

A young boy is suffering from nightmares by Freddy. A psychiatrist is asked to help the boy. The doctor does help but at the most horrible cost. Meanwhile a cameraman is determined to prove that Freddy does exist. Freddy decides to teach him a lesson Krueger style.

S2E2 - Heartbreak Hotel 1989-10-15

A reporter who does some tacky stories for a newspaper is sent to the Springwood Hotel to investigate an elvis sighting there at the hotel he discovers that what ever he writes becomes reality Also a man survives a car accident and develops amenisia his family is trying to help him regain his memory.

S2E3 - Welcome to Springwood 1989-10-22

A Couple move to Springwood. Right away the wife of the couple begins to suspect that a serial killer has targeted the house that they have moved into. This has a surprising ending. The second half of the episode is about a woman who finds an old stack of love letters from the nineteeth century. She begins to obsess over their relationship, and begins to see their ghosts.

S2E4 - Photo Finish 1989-10-29

A woman photographer is being terrorised by Freddy, and whatever photos she takes, tragedy strikes on every one. The second half of the episode is about three FBI agents investigating a family killing in Springwood on Halloween. It turns out that Freddy has used his evil to kill the family and is planning a similar fate for the FBI.

S2E5 - Memory Overload 1989-11-05

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 shes 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.

S2E6 - Lucky Stiff 1989-11-12

A man wins a lottery and he and his wife are in the money ... or so they think. Tragedy strikes, and after his death his lottery ticket turns up missing.

S2E7 - Silence is Golden 1989-11-19

Rick Blake is haunted by a mime who keeps tormenting him. Meanwhile it turns out that the mime is also a burglar who learns that the last people he robbed were also killed

S2E8 - Bloodlines 1989-11-26

An escaped convict goes on a search for the money he stole before he went to jail but his wife and his offspring arent ready to forgive him. Meanwhile, Jack adopts a young girl but his wife believes that she is possessed by the devil.

S2E9 - Monkey Dreams 1989-12-03

Joe is a gambler who is fleeing from some gangsters. He is really a scientist who is trying to search for alien lifeforms. Another scientist is trying to see if monkeys can talk.

S2E10 - Do You Know Where Your Kids Are? 1989-12-10

This is a sequel to Bloodlines. Lisa Wax has to babysit for the Burtons, not knowing that the Burtons eldest adopted daughter Patty has been locked up in the family basement most of her life for killing her adopted mother. Lisa starts having hallucinations and seeing visions of Patty as the Devil himself, trying to lure the little boy into the basement. Somehow Patty escapes and imprisons Lisa in the basement, without the parents thinking any different. The second half of the episode is about Patty and how she somehow meets Mrs.Wax. Mrs.Wax invites her to stay in her house. The town thinks that Lisa is dead, due to a car accident. Meanwhile Lisa escapes the basement and heads to a confrontation to end all confrontations.

S2E11 - Dreams That Kill 1989-12-17

A Talkshow host who is doing a story about if nightmares can kill, is being haunted by Freddy. He goes ahead with the story anyway despite Freddys warnings. The second half is about a teenage boy who is involved in a car accident and is a subject of an illegal surgery by a doctor who switched brain tissue from the talkshow host to the boy. The boy is now being hunted by Freddy, who will stop at nothing to kill him.

S2E12 - It's My Party and You'll Die If I Want You To 1989-12-24

Marla Murlee is a con artist posing as a psychic. She tries to contact someone from the Titanic disaster but is booed by her rival Harry Lee. Freddy hears this and decides to accept her invitation at the real ceremony. She does contact a spirit, not from the Titanic but from Elm Street. Freddy uses her body for his killing but hes not done yet. His next target is the Springwood High 2 decade reunion. The next victim is his ex-girlfriend Denise who broke their prom date as a joke. Also a student is studying Freddy to make a film about him.

S2E13 - What You Don't Know Can Kill You 1990-01-07

This is about a psychiatrist who uses women under hypnosis to get what he wants. Eventually a fellow psychiatrist finds out what hes up to and the Doctor does his best in mind control to stop word from leaking out. The second half of the episode is about a man that is on the run from the police for accidental murder. His girlfriend suggests that he goes under laser plastic surgery to change his face. He does it, but later finds out that the new face he has is also owned by a mob boss who just turned states evidence.

S2E14 - Easy Come, Easy Go 1990-01-14

Greta who has already murdered twice to avoid sharing her first husbands lottery winnings, faces a new challenge when a witness to her crimes blackmails her into marriage. Single again, Greta finds out a deep, dark family secret when her sister Peggy and Peggys husband Sonny drop in for a surprise visit.

S2E15 - Prime Cut 1990-01-21

A Camping trip turns into a nightmare as the male campers believe that their woman tracker is a vampire, who is planning on feeding off their blood. The second half of the episode is about some survivors of a plane crash, who have to eat their dead friends to survive. Meanwhile a killer is slowly stalking them in the mountains.

S2E16 - Interior Loft 1990-01-28

A woman decides to take up a side job in the phone sex business, for her husband. Disaster strikes when an unknown psychopath becomes obsessed with Kim and starts murdering women for her. The confrontation occurs in the loft. The second half of the episode is about Kim, who is recovering from the attack. She starts to mentally unhinge and her husband becomes gradually more worried that his wife is plotting to kill him.

S2E17 - Interior Loft-Later 1990-02-04

An artist fakes his death after accidentally killing a subject.However he starts to suspect his wife is having an affair and thats when the twist occurs. The second half is about two women who are wary of letting a guy move into their apartment. Eventually their suspicions prove correct when he starts hitting on both of them. But one stunt backfires, big time.

S2E18 - Funhouse 1990-02-11

This is a sequel to Welcome To Springwood, because of the character Turk. A Couple moves into a supposedly haunted house where a murder once took place. Someone is indeed in the house, but whether or not its a ghost is another story. The second half of the episode is centered on the mover, and how he is roped back into the ""House of a Hundred Secrets"". Where the story ends with a twist.

S2E19 - A Family Affair 1990-02-18

Paul is cheating on his wife and when the woman hes having an affair with starts forcing her way into his life, he breaks off the relationship with her. Paul trying to patch things up with his son whos two year absence was triggered by the earlier events. This turns deadly because of his choices.

S2E20 - Dust To Dust 1990-02-25

This is a sequel to PrimeCut. Three former cannibals start up their eating habits again when an unknown man drops dead in their living room. After all three eat him, they find out that the man was an astronaut who escaped an underground lab in Springwood. The astronaut was infected with a virus, which has now infected the three cannibals. The government picks them up and puts them in their underground lab for testing. The second half of the episode is centered on ""Tracker"", the lone survivor of the virus. ""Tracker"" wants to escape and eventually lures an innocent scientist to help her.

S2E21 - Prisoner of Love 1990-03-04

This episode is about a priest who is giving the last rites to a woman on death row. She manages to seduce him and he plans an unimaginable escape from the death house with a tragic ending. The second episode is centred on Violet Rodriguez as she tries to escape,the similar way Brenda Vincent tried, but with hopefully better results.

S2E22 - Life Sentence 1990-03-11

This episode is centered on Andy Caulfield, a prisoner who is about to get payroll, until he is faced with a prison counsellor who also happens to be a relative of one of his victims. The second half of this episode is based on Warden Hendler, who is using prisoners as Guinea pigs to test a new drug for extracting vital information. However the experiment backfires with drastic results.

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