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“Freddy’s Nightmares” Returns This Week to El Rey!
“Freddy’s Nightmares“, the horror anthology series that ran for two seasons between 1988 and 1990, is coming back to El Rey beginning this Tuesday! Four episodes will be airing in a row on Tuesday from 12pm until 4pm.
Hosted by Freddy Krueger (played by Robert Englund), each episode took place in Springwood, OH, many of them also taking place on Elm Street itself. While Freddy rarely played a part in the storylines, there were often hints and suggestions that he was the puppet master that was indirectly pulling the strings.
According to Wiki:
One element that makes the series unique is its two-tier story approach. Most of the episodes feature two different stories that each take up the first and second halves. Every second story, however, usually built on a character who played a minor (or supporting) role in the first.
When El Rey picked up the rights to broadcast “Freddy’s Nightmares”, they also got the rights to several other shows, such as “V: The Series”, “Mortal Kombat: Conquest”, and more. You can read our coverage here.
You can check out El Rey’s schedule for other upcoming titles.
The best part about engaging with collaborative genre fiction on the internet is that anyone can get in on the action, with worldwide accessibility often resulting in absurd story beats that wouldn’t be possible if any single person was responsible for the entire narrative. And while Kane Parsons’ Backrooms film is definitely the young filmmaker’s own unique take on the infamous creepypasta, it’s fun to see other creators join the Backrooms sandbox now that the big screen adaptation is getting ready for a record-shattering opening weekend.
As if cleverly timed releases like Puppet Combo’s The Backrooms game weren’t enough (not to mention that Scary Movie poster poking fun at Parsons’ flick), McDonald’s official social media accounts have now released an analog horror video of their own celebrating the liminal terrors of the McRooms – complete with a familiar purple surprise at the end of the footage.
While it’s funny enough to see the world’s most recognizable Fast Food giant engage with internet-borne Found Footage thrills seemingly out of the blue, the video is actually referencing a long-running gag among the Backrooms fandom where creators jokingly talk about there being a fully functional McDonald’s restaurant hidden somewhere in level 0 of the infamous liminal labyrinth.
Now, would it be too much to hope for a moist-carpet-flavored McShake to tie in with the film?
Backrooms is now playing only in theaters from A24.
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