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The Worst Episodes of Freddy's Nightmares

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The evil, sinister killer of the "Nightmare On Elm Street" movies, Freddy Krueger, hosts this show, where each week, he shows us a tale of evil and death about the lives of people who live

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Freddy's Nightmares Season 1 Episode 13 - Deadline
    4.9/10(144 votes)

    #1 - Deadline

    S1:E13

    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.

    Director:Michael Lange
    Writer:Jill Donner

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  2. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 9 - Monkey Dreams
    5.2/10(109 votes)

    #2 - Monkey Dreams

    S2:E9

    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.

    Director:Robert Englund
    Writer:Michael Kirschenbaum

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  3. Freddy's Nightmares Season 1 Episode 2 - It's a Miserable Life
    5.3/10(358 votes)

    #3 - It's a Miserable Life

    S1:E2

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

    Director:Tom McLoughlin
    Writer:Paul Rosselli

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  4. Freddy's Nightmares Season 1 Episode 15 - School Daze
    5.3/10(140 votes)

    #4 - School Daze

    S1:E15

    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. Also Max must work for his uncle's pizza restaurant and he too discovers a shocking secret.

    Director:Michael Klein
    Writer:David Ehrman

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  5. Freddy's Nightmares Season 1 Episode 10 - The Bride Wore Red
    5.4/10(172 votes)

    #5 - The Bride Wore Red

    S1:E10

    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.

    Director:George Kaczender
    Writer:Howard Lakin

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  6. Freddy's Nightmares Season 1 Episode 6 - Saturday Night Special
    5.5/10(205 votes)

    #6 - Saturday Night Special

    S1:E6

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

    Director:Lisa Gottlieb
    Writers:Don Bohlinger, James Nathan

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  7. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 20 - Dust To Dust
    5.6/10(106 votes)

    #7 - Dust To Dust

    S2:E20

    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.

    Director:Bill Froehlich
    Writers:David Braff, Bill Froehlich

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  8. Freddy's Nightmares Season 1 Episode 9 - Rebel Without a Car
    5.7/10(179 votes)

    #8 - Rebel Without a Car

    S1:E9

    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.

    Director:John Lafia
    Writer:Christopher Trumbo

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  9. Freddy's Nightmares Season 1 Episode 16 - Cabin Fever
    5.7/10(145 votes)

    #9 - Cabin Fever

    S1:E16

    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.

    Director:Robert Englund
    Writer:Rhet Topham

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  10. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 5 - Memory Overload
    5.7/10(113 votes)

    #10 - Memory Overload

    S2:E5

    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.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Michael Kirschenbaum

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  11. Freddy's Nightmares Season 1 Episode 8 - Mother's Day
    5.8/10(189 votes)

    #11 - Mother's Day

    S1:E8

    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 girl's mother is being harassed by a mysterious caller on the radio.

    Director:Michael Lange
    Writer:David Ehrman

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  12. Freddy's Nightmares Season 1 Episode 11 - Do Dreams Bleed
    5.8/10(185 votes)

    #12 - Do Dreams Bleed

    S1:E11

    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

    Director:Dwight H. Little
    Writer:Michael De Luca

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  13. Freddy's Nightmares Season 1 Episode 12 - The End of the World
    5.8/10(163 votes)

    #13 - The End of the World

    S1:E12

    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.

    Director:Jonathan R. Betuel
    Writer:James Cappe

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  14. Freddy's Nightmares Season 1 Episode 21 - Identity Crisis
    5.8/10(114 votes)

    #14 - Identity Crisis

    S1:E21

    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 doesn't get the answers she wants.

    Director:David Calloway
    Writer:Rebecca Pogrow

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  15. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 3 - Welcome to Springwood
    5.8/10(123 votes)

    #15 - Welcome to Springwood

    S2:E3

    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.

    Director:Ken Wiederhorn
    Writers:Gilbert Adler, A L Katz

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  16. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 16 - Interior Loft
    5.8/10(104 votes)

    #16 - Interior Loft

    S2:E16

    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.

    Director:Ken Wiederhorn
    Writer:David Braff

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  17. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 21 - Prisoner of Love
    5.8/10(96 votes)

    #17 - Prisoner of Love

    S2:E21

    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.

    Director:Richard T. Schor
    Writer:Richard Beban

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  18. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 17 - Interior Loft-Later
    5.9/10(105 votes)

    #18 - Interior Loft-Later

    S2:E17

    An artist fakes his death after accidentally killing a subject.However he starts to suspect his wife is having an affair and that's 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.

    Director:Ken Wiederhorn
    Writer:Jonathan Glassner

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  19. Freddy's Nightmares Season 1 Episode 3 - Killer Instinct
    6.0/10(314 votes)

    #19 - Killer Instinct

    S1:E3

    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.

    Director:Mick Garris
    Writer:Allen B. Ury

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  20. Freddy's Nightmares Season 1 Episode 14 - Black Tickets
    6.0/10(175 votes)

    #20 - Black Tickets

    S1:E14

    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.

    Director:George Kaczender
    Writer:Howard Lakin

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  21. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 18 - Funhouse
    6.0/10(110 votes)

    #21 - Funhouse

    S2:E18

    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 it's 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.

    Director:Gilbert Adler
    Writers:Gilbert Adler, A L Katz

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  22. Freddy's Nightmares Season 1 Episode 5 - Judy Miller, Come On Down
    6.1/10(214 votes)

    #22 - Judy Miller, Come On Down

    S1:E5

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

    Director:Tom DeSimone
    Writers:Michael De Luca, Jack Temchin

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  23. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 2 - Heartbreak Hotel
    6.1/10(118 votes)

    #23 - Heartbreak Hotel

    S2:E2

    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.

    Director:William Malone
    Writer:Jonathan Glassner

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  24. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 15 - Prime Cut
    6.1/10(107 votes)

    #24 - Prime Cut

    S2:E15

    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.

    Director:David Calloway
    Writer:Michael Kirschenbaum

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  25. Freddy's Nightmares Season 2 Episode 22 - Life Sentence
    6.1/10(101 votes)

    #25 - Life Sentence

    S2:E22

    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.

    Director:Anita W. Addison
    Writer:David Zuckerman

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Deadline" is the worst rated episode of "Freddy's Nightmares". It scored 4.9/10 based on 144 votes. Directed by Michael Lange and written by Jill Donner, it aired on 1/29/1989. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Monkey Dreams".