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March 27, 2013
A Nightmare in Gautham 4: A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4: THE DREAM MASTER (1988)
I was ten, I guess, when I first learned of A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, though it came out days before my eleventh birthday. I wanted to go to the movies to see it as I had the third movie but didn’t have the chance to. My first viewing of the [...]
March 21, 2013
A Nightmare in Gautham 3: A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS (1987)
In the fall of 1986, just after seeing the double feature of A Nightmare on Elm Street and A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge on HBO, my father took me to see the Sylvester Stallone movie Over the Top. Before you suggest that my father is horrible and should have been jailed for [...]
March 18, 2013
My Thoughts On Fame, or Why They Don’t Deserve Your Rudeness
A month or so ago, someone on Facebook bitched about Jodi Foster’s speech at the Golden Globes. You know the one, it went viral and lots of people said how brave she was for it.¹ Well, the part that got me most was about her privacy, asking–downright demanding–that her privacy, as well as the privacy [...]
March 14, 2013
A Nightmare in Gautham 2: A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: FREDDY’S REVENGE (1985)
So, the legend has it that, because strong word of mouth made A Nightmare on Elm Street a sleeper hit, Robert Shaye and the other folks at the burgeoning New Line Cinema asked Wes Craven for a sequel. Wes, being a smart guy and wanting to pursue other things, basically said, “I’ve said what I [...]
March 11, 2013
A Sundry Post
So the response seemed pretty good to last week’s posting of my first essay in the Nightmare in Gautham series. I will begin revising the second essay tonight or tomorrow to have up on Thursday. In case you missed it, last Friday I posted my short story “Snow Day” to the site. If you haven’t [...]
March 7, 2013
A Nightmare in Gautham: A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984)
I believe that there are low budget horror films that are masterpieces of cinema. Night of the Living Dead is one. Halloween is another. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is up there. Wes Craven had already done some pretty impressive films that dealt with fear by 1984. The Last House on the Left, with its shocking, [...]
March 6, 2013
A Nightmare in Gautham: An Introduction
An Introduction to the Introduction Back in 2010, when I was still using LiveJournal, I decided that I would embark on what I thought would be a cool little project to keep my mind working. I would write about each of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies, leading up to the release of the remake, [...]
February 27, 2013
An Unofficial Note to the Kids: Past, Present, & Future
It sucks being a teenager. It really does. By teenager, I mean from about 12 until about 20 (though things don’t get much better in your early twenties). But yeah, they suck. There are feelings and emotions coursing through you, making you feel unlike anything known to humankind. You’re parents don’t get you, your teachers [...]
February 12, 2013
The Blizzard of 2013, Or How I Gave Up Heat & the Internet and Found Out Where My Priorities Lie
Didja hear the one about the two massive winter storms that merged and battered the Northeastern United States over a 24-hour period? Yeah, I did, too. Ilived it, man. I’m sure some of you did, too. It was something to behold and, in my mind, the worst stormI’ve lived through. That’s not to say there [...]
January 3, 2013
Say what? It’s 2013?!
Who knew a nearly-2-month-old could eat up so much time? I know it’s been 14 years since the last time I had a child this small, but…? Well, happy New Year to you and I’m sorry for not coming around more recently. I’m sure you understand. I have some plans I’d like to do with [...]
