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Nancy is back in Springwood to face her nightmares, but this time she's using her experience to support Freddy's new Elm Street targets, Kristen and her troubled group of new friends. With a great cast including Patricia Arquette in her feature film debut, a fun story that logically expands on the mythology of Freddy Krueger, and a series of memorable nightmares, why does A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors work so well? Find out in this, episode three of a ten-part franchise retrospective for the entire Nightmare movie franchise!

The seconds Nightmare on Elm Street movie took a very different approach to the mythology of Freddy Krueger. More of a haunted house and possession movie, Freddy's Revenge was rushed into production after the success of the first film in the series. While its merits as a slasher movie and an entry in the Nightmare series are debatable, the not-so-subtle subtext about the main character has become what the movie is best known for. Listen as we discuss all of this and more as we look at A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's revenge in the second part of a ten-episode franchise retrospective for the Nightmare on Elm Street series!

In 1984, Wes Craven introduced a new kind of horror movie to audiences. In a world where silent, masked killers were falling out of favor with mainstream audiences, Freddy Krueger slipped into everyone's dreams with nightmarish charisma and creepiness. Though it was a movie that spawned a franchise of increasingly silly sequels, the first A Nightmare on Elm Street is a beautiful and terrifying work of art. Listen as chris and Joey discuss the first Nightmare movie in episode one of a ten part retrospective covering every single movie in the series!

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Total Run Time: 1:40:26

Theme music: "Rising Game" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Additional Music: Selections from the A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Soundtrack by Charles Bernstein

Great ghost stories often have a strong sense of psychological horror to go along with the spooks and scares. The Turning is a movie that starts strong with its story of a possible descent into madness, but it's also a movie that threatens to derail all its good work with a highly divisive final act. Find out all about it in my review of The Turning in episode 40 of The Last Theater!

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Total Run Time: 28:41

Theme music: "Rising Game" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Additional Music: "The Brakes" by Warpaint & The Turning, "Mother" by Courtney Love & The Turning, both from The Turning soundtrack

Though underwater monster movies might be a niche sub-genre, and though there are more than a few lackluster movies that fit into the same category, Underwater rises above many of its type with a great cast, a fun and tense atmosphere, and some great monsters. Listen to the latest episode of The Last Theater to find out how everything came together to create a memorable experience that fans of underwater monsters will likely want to revisit again and again.

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Total Run Time: 32:07

Theme music: "Rising Game" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Additional Music: "Bikini Run" by Marco Beltrami & Brandon Roberts from the Underwater soundtrack, "Get Ready" by The Temptations from the album Gettin' Ready

Ju-On: The Grudge was one of the most popular movies in the j-horror explosion that captured the fear and imagination of the world. It's seventeen years later though, so can an American remake/soft reboot hope to recapture even a little of the atmosphere that captivated audiences so long ago? Find out in episode 38 of The Last Theater!

Total Run Time: 39:41

Theme music: "Rising Game" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Additional Music: "Lost Ones" and "We Get What We Deserve" by The Newton Brothers (featuring Dead Sara) from The Grudge soundtrack

The original Black Christmas is a classic horror movie that helped shape the slashers that followed it, and its socially aware messages still resonate today. The second remake of the original, 2019's Black Christmas, is a movie with similar aspirations. This modern reinterpretation tried hard to create something significant and meaningful, but the end result feels like less than the sum of its parts. Find out why in the latest episode of The Last Theater!

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Total Run Time: 38:14

Theme music: “Rising Game” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Additional Music: “Opening” and “Up in the Frat House” from the Black Christmas soundtrack by Will Blair & Brooke Blair

My experience with Countdown has been a strange one. I went from disbelief, to grudging acceptance, to a powerful indifference with the span of a few hours. Find out why as I review and lightly analyze Countdown in the latest episode of The Last Theater!

Total Run Time: 26:10

Theme music: "Rising Game" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Additional Music: "Matt & Quinn" from the Countdown Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, composed by Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans

We've come to the end of the Halloween road for now. Every movie currently in the Halloween franchise has been discussed, so now all that's left is to rank them! Plus, we have more fun with lists, stats, and some extra commentary that we didn't fit into the previous episodes! We share some surprises we experienced while watching all eleven Halloween movies so close together, and chris comes up with an idea for a new movie containing six actors picked from the casts of the Halloween franchise!

Total Run Time: 1:24:29

Theme music: "Rising Game" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Additional Music: Halloween theme composed by John Carpenter

In 2018, forty years after the original Halloween, John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis returned to Haddonfield with a direct sequel to the original movie. The hype was huge, but did the actual movie live up to the hopes and expectations we had from the buildup? Find out as we discuss Halloween (2018) in the eleventh of twelve episode covering the entire Halloween franchise in The Last Theater!