Seeing Mike dab makes me realize that Picard has really drove him to madness.

The idea of Freddy torturing the writers' room of Star Trek Picard is so funny and on point that I'm now choosing to believe it's real. It explains EVERYTHING.

Did anyone hear Craven talk about the origin of Freddie's look? How once when he was a boy, they lived in a second floor apartment and one night young Wes was woken up by a sound outside. He approached the window to take a look, and walking down the street by his building was what looked to him like a homeless guy. Seconds later the guy stopped, and slowly looked up at Wes in the window and made eye contact. Wes ducked back from the window terrified. He waited a while, and when he thought the guy was gone, he looked back out. But he was still standing in the same position staring up at the window. He ducked back again, then heard the guy walk away. He was wearing the same hat and striped sweater that Freddie wore. Always loved that story.

"We've got some studio no-ooootes!!" is the hardest I've laughed in a while. Well done, Jay.

The Freddy writing for Picard bit was pure gold

Jay's studio notes line delivery was spot on

Mike literally took a sip of beer while mid-laughing fit at Jay's "studio notes" line. We should all strive for that level of dedication.

In the eighties we had a dude babysitter. He would show up at the house with a hat and Freddy glove. We'd open the door for him and he'd go "Freddy's back!" while posing with the glove. We'd run around the house screaming and laughing. Best babysitter ever

While not intentional, the aspect where the deaths in the real world are normal and not supernatural-looking is better because it lines up well with Freddy being a child predator; it mirrors the terror of “nobody will believe you”.

The image of freddy in a writers room saying "WE'VE GOT SOME STUDIO NOTES!" is fucking hilarious

Fully agreed that the body bag scene in the school is some legitimately great horror. The use of silence in that setting, the way nobody else notices, the unnatural movement, how she is lured by it, it's all stuff straight out of real world nightmares which is (obviously) perfect, thematically speaking. Still a very effective scene to this day, and it's one of the least over the top horror moments in the entire franchise coincidentally.

The last comments about Freddy forcing people to become writers in the studio system was PURE GENIUS! That's such a great setup for at least a sketch ;D.

Out of all the horrific imagery the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise has brought, Mike flossing and dabbing easily takes the cake

Can we just unironically appreciate how much good content they've put out in the past month. Big ups

back in my teens I marathoned all the nightmare on elm street movies in a day with my cousin, we took a little break halfway through to get taco bell

@16:00 Mike dabbing to the NES Nightmare theme is one of my favorite things I never asked for 😂

Mike in a review of a horror franchise is rare

The irony should never be lost on anyone that they made an entire line of toys for kids... from a horror franchise about a child molester/murderer. This was an episode of Best of the Worst for Mike.

One aspect of the original that I adore is Wes’ direction of the kill scenes, Tina’s death in particular is so unnerving as there’s something so disturbing about only getting to see the victim’s side of the confrontation. Whilst Tina kicks and screams being dragged up the wall in her own blood, your mind can only wonder what Freddy is actually doing to her.

I adore the elm street films. They used to be such an event. My best friend and I borrowed a vhs copy of dream warriors. We had a sleep over, waited for his mum to go to bed, then we watched it. It was rated 18 in England, we were barely teens. Oh, The excitement, anticipation and fear! Magical time.

A re:view of the cronenberg filmography with jay and josh would be beyond awesome

Nothing is more terrifying than studio notes.

That treehouse of horror parody is so good that it's actually kinda frightening in the same way that the movies are. It's got that same mix of surreal and campy that makes the movies upsetting because your brain doesn't know what to make of these jokes being inserted in between the bizarre deaths. Also, Homer3 from the same episode is INSANELY atmospheric and it's strange that nobody ever talks about that. The Simpsons used to have some surprisingly ambient episodes.

"We got some studio notes" is the funniest thing Jay has ever said.

Mike flossing and dabbing is the most cursed thing I've seen in years

RLM videos are like an hours worth of crack that I can only try my damndest to make last for the week, hoping they release another dose/video

This whole review is delightful, but my favorite part is always when Jay and Mike do their Freddy impersonations. “We’ve got some studio nooootes!”

My big problem with these movies is that The Simpsons parody of it kinda perfectly encapsulated the franchise in only 10 minutes. Like it manages to hit every beat while still having time to mix in some of its own jokes too. Truly a testament to the genius of early Simpsons.

I love that imagination is the main strength of the heroes and villains in the Nightmare franchise and that even the bad ones (except the remake) have their original visual style.

Jay saying “welcome to my world bitch” is just what I needed today

That's one element I've always loved about many of Wes Craven's films: They're straight-up horror movies that still somehow manage to end on a cathartic, triumphant note without tonally clashing against the story that preceded it. The NOES situation is one if those rare examples of a producer/studio forcing a BLEAKER ending on the fillmmaker instead of the other way around (i.e. BLADE RUNNER).

I would say “you are all my children now” is the most iconic line from nightmare 2. But “you got the body, I’ve got the brain” is also great.

This is the most positive anyone's been about Nightmare on Elm Street since Claudio Sanchez wrote a love song from Freddie's perspective.

That last part was absolutely hilarious. Now I want to see a skit with Rich as Freddy Picard and Mike and Jay as the writers.

I've always said that Part 2, with Freddy becoming corporeal, manifesting himself as different things in the real world, etc. doesn't break any rules if you watch it from the perspective they that the entire movie, from before the opening scene through the final scene, is one long dream. Considering how closely the opening scene mirrors the final scene, it's like Freddy is torturing Jesse in an endless nightmare loop designed not to kill him, but rather to drive him insane by making him do the one thing that, for him, may be worse than death: kill his family and friends, over and over again.

Dude Peter Jackson before he retires needs to make a good horror flick.. Being his main background of genre where he started out at.. I still can't believe to this day he made the film Dead Alive.. one of my favorites of all time..

Two things I really like about the original Nightmare, 1. the theory that Nancy never does drag Freddy into the real world and the whole ending is just her taking back control of her dream, and 2. the deleted scene which really does add to Nancy and her mom is that she had an older sister who was one of the original kids killed by Fred but Nancy was too young/traumatised and just forgot she ever existed.

Mike is "making an effort to own more physical media", I am sure he would appreciate all of the RLM subscribers sending some more physical media to him!

I love how the beginning establishes the re:View as Mike's nightmare but Jay's dream

“We got some studio nooooos” is a fantastic ender.

The thing about Freddy is he gains all his power from you. He feeds off your deepest fears and when you start feeling it, it amplifies his powers. Freddy's powers can reach onto the real world IF he has enough psychic energy (from fear) to work with. Another interesting note is Freddy only knows what you know in the dream world at that time. So if you know Karate, Freddy now knows Karate. That's why Freddy seems to be having so much fun. He is experiencing new things and trying them out whereas he could kill anyone in an instant but after enough kills, that gets boring.

I was so scared of him as a child. I was crying because I always imagined him coming out of the walls. Now the Elm Street movies are my comfort movies

That bit at the end I think explains why they kept making these movies. Freddy, as a character, has such a distinct "evil gameshow host" personality that it's incredibly easy to riff off of it and boom! Before you know it you have the half of a script you need to begin filming the next Nightmare movie.

"You shouldn't have buried me. I'm not dead." I never thought that line was to explain anything. I assumed it was just a "funny" reference to Wes Craven's The Serpent and the Rainbow which had the line, "Don't let them bury me. I'm not dead." It probably seemed pretty clever at the time since their release dates were only a few months apart. Made it seem more current. Though obviously it was a last minute thought,

Freddy came back in 4 because Kristen kept bringing Joey and Kincaid back into her nightmares while thinking about Freddy. He gets energy from their fear, I think Joey or Kincaid even say that she's gonna bring him back if she keeps thinking about him.

Fun fact: I met Robert Englund almost a decade ago and he was an incredible guy to talk to

Whoa whoa whoa!! Hold up... Whodini may not be a household name, but he's definitely an early Hip-Hop legend. He's got some bonafide classics! Freaks Come Out At Night, Five Minutes of Funk, Friends...These are total jams, ones that moved the needle in the rap/electro breakdance days. And they still get the party going, for those who know. As far as the Elm Street song.. yeah, not the most memorable hah. But I'm here, only 33 years old and screaming, I REMEMBER WHODINI!!!

Mike should really watch that extras disk. There's a cool deleted scene where Freddy, while on fire, threatens to kill all the Springwood children and one of the Parents asks derisively, "how ya gonna get 'em, skeleton power?" and Freddy explains that he can strike in dreams Nice little piece of the origin story. Great scene.

This really hit the spot. And that Nightmare on Elm Street documentary never sleep again is a must-see.

The Stop motion Skeleton in Part 3.. (I saw this in theatre as kid) TOTALLY worked. I recall it struck me as identical to the Terminator stop motion. The uncanny vallley made it work. I do remember loving the effect… the entire junkyard scene..

(5:18) Whodini are hip-hop pioneers whose music is still being referenced to by other artists. You don’t care for Whodini (which is completely fun) but there are a lot of people who do … which is why they have a legacy.

I think you nailed the fundamental issue with the Nightmare series. Real life death/wounds vs Death in dream and no one believing it's Freddy. You can tell the series really struggled with this. I have thought of this for years as well and the only way for this to work is mentioned in Freddy vs Jason. The police find out Freddy cannot be killed but contained. Freddy needs fear and notoriety to exist. They go out of their way to erase all mention of Freddy. Anyone investigating a Freddy death is given to a special unit that covers it up as an unsolved murder or covers it up. Witnesses are given meds to suppress dreams and gaslight them to think something else happened. This conspiracy layer is important to keeping this Nightmare universe realistic. Freddy is powerful enough to reach into the real world if he has enough psychic energy from fear, and tries to make some ultra horrible display of power to create more fear in the public. However the powers that be suppress it to contain Freddy. Young people will seek Freddy as some taboo creepy pasta. In a weakened state Freddy's kills can only look like a natural accident. At full power, Freddy can do things in the real world like he does in the dream world but not as good. More like telekinesis in the real world while in the dream world he can bend the fabric of the dreamworld into anything. It's also important to not that Freddy is just one form of an ancient evil god. I wish the Nightmare series sort of explored that as some Lovecraft horror.

The thing to remember is the Nightmare series as a concept was original in many ways. I blend of different horror stories, but at the core was a demon that lives in dreams and unlike other monsters, you can't avoid sleeping. There are other dimensional types demons, like Hellraiser, but the dream world is one humans actually experience. The thought that at your most vulnerable there is an evil God looking to take your soul and there is nothing you can do in that realm, is horrifying and why the Nightmare franchise endures.

i adore the sleepy, hazy and hypnagogic editing in the original and 3. those movies move between waking and dreaming so seamlessly that it can be difficult to tell where one begins and the other ends. absolutely magical effect, and something the others largely lack

My conspiracy theory is that part 2 was just a totally different script about a demon with fire powers that they just slid Freddy into to get a sequel out ASAP.

I still can't get over the fact that my old college professor directed Nightmare on Elm Street 2. Believe me, he wouldn't realize the gay undertones of the movie. Also, he was annoyed that Robert Shaw wanted a role in his movie and it was his idea to have him dress in leather in the bar scene.

For St. Patrick's Day I hope they review the Leprechaun film; Warwick Davis' second most terrifying film (after Ewoks: Battle For Endor)

"We've got some studio nooooootes!!!" is one of the funniest things Jay has ever said lmao

Will always be in love with part 3. Saw it as a kid, kind of my Goonies of horror films. Super creative, dark and ultimately like a fantasy adventure. I was at the perfect age for this.

Just a fun franchise filled with creative ideas and imagination.

This series was particularly meaningful to me as a kid because I watched a ton of horror films and could lucid dream, so I was often aware when I was having terrifying nightmares.

I can't believe I never noticed that kid in 4 is carrying a textbook for "Soviet Psychiatry" (32:11). That's a great little gag.

I hope y'all get to talking about the casting of Robert Englund as Freddy. He's a vital reason why Freddy as a character has become so iconic. I think David Warner did a makeup test and for whatever reason his casting fell through, which is a great bit of serendipity because as great an actor as DW was, I cannot imagine him taking Freddy Krueger to the height of pop culture icon that Robert did.

"We've got some studio nooootes!" Is the most horrifying thing ever to leave someone's lips.

Awesome re:View-but MY GOD, that last minute of this was pure RLM gold. I haven’t legitimately laughed like that in a while.

I've always been fine with the dummy being dragged through the small window of the front door at the end of the first Nightmare on Elm Street. It works for me because it makes it clear that "oh shit, this is still a dream". I don't know if you remember your own dreams as well as I do, (or lucid dream like I do) but physics don't exist in the dream realm. When I become lucid in my dreams, and can control them, I can literally fly, breathe underwater, breathe in space, walk through walls, etc...

It’s a shame that there aren’t very many elderly folk for Mike to laugh at here, as opposed to Exorcist 3

Jay has to find a way to edit in the Mike floss event in every new episode ad infinitum.... pure art.

Tina in the body-bag was super disturbing. This may be one of the few scenes I recall hiding my eyes at.. ..It dawned on me the “body bag” is the modern version of the “white sheet” they used to put over bodies.. Something about making that connection freaked me tf out.

Mike’s little dance may be the hardest I’ve ever laughed at anything. Thank you 👏🏻

Fun fact: Rachel Talalay has now directed multiple episodes of Doctor Who, some of which are considered to be the best episodes of the entire series.

this is borderline existential

That last bit was hilarious. I'd love to see Freddy in the writer's room for Picard. Also on a somewhat related note, along with caffeine I've found that very spicy things are good at keeping you awake too. Like try falling asleep after eating a teaspoon of ghost pepper hot sauce, it isn't easy.

Yoooo this was hilarious. Had me rolling. "At some point he had financial trouble, and moved into this shack".

Mikes Monty Python impression is so spot on I can see the sketch in front of me😂😂

The ending of the 1st film is so surreal it’s great

Really dont know why I stopped watching you guys over half a year ago now, you've really helped through some suboptimal times with laughter. Thank you so much

The Picard-Freddy crossover at the end had me laughing out loud

I love it when they just make each other crack up at the end. Good vibes

Not the birthday present I expected at all, but very grateful! They obviously did this solely for me, of course. No other explanation.

Being a little kid in the '80s and early '90s, the creepiest song you could sing was the "1, 2, Freddy's after you" song, especially late at night. Looking back now, man, that was some good marketing.

Jay's Freddy impression is bang on with the inflection! I love it 😂

I actually love the ending of the first one. The cheesy look of it actually makes it wayyy creepier.

Would absolutely love a re:view on peter jackson's early movies Bad taste and Braindead, watched them the other night and they are so brilliant

I know The Shining has been discussed to DEATH. BUT. I dream of a Re:view of it with Jay and Josh or Mike. I’m simply curious to hear more of their thoughts on it.

Rachel Talalay’s had a really interesting career; post-Nightmare, she’s gone on to be a prolific TV director. Her work on the Peter Capaldi years of Doctor Who was electrifying stuff. (Heaven Sent should’ve been nominated for an Emmy.)

Very excited to hear the discussion of Wes Craven's New Nightmare. Feel like that film could warrant its own full re:view

40:33 I always Love when Mike Remakes the story in his own way cause its so valid everytime hahaha

The ending of the first one always displayed that, it was still all a dream, all the way to when Freddy drags the mother through the window, because we dont know if it is reality or a dream.

I am SO EXCITED for this retrospective! I love the Elm Street movies, and am super interested in what the guys think about them. Also, Jay's hair looks amazing. I hope he keeps growing it out. Werewolf Jay is my favorite Jay. 🥰

I've only seen the first one and the biggest head scratch for me was how Freddy possessed the bed sheets to hang the one kid in the jail cell. It's a strange, rule breaking, yet enjoyable series for sure.

I'm surprised Mike didn't point out that Alice (in Elm Street 4), is the same actress from Star Trek TNG's Episode "The Vengeance Factor". Where Picard decides to end the raids on the Federation outposts from the group of renegades called The Gatherers, and she plays Yuta, the hand maiden of their homeworld's Dignitary, trying to bring the Gatherers home. Though secretly, Yuta is there to wipe out the enemy faction that previously did so to her's.

I remember meeting the actor who played Jesse in 2 and he was so sweet and genuine. He did tell me he didn't believe the story about Heather Langenkamp keeping the Freddy tongue phone prop.

"Welcome to Paramount Plus, Bitch!", should be on their login screen. Also, "we've got some studio noootes!", dead.

My childhood favorite Horror franchise! So happy to to hear all the moments that stood out to these two.

Thanks for all the content this year, dudes! There’s a lot of energy going into the channel and it shows!

Jays excitement was so wholesome

I’d love to hear RLM talk about The Dark Crystal, their love of practical effects would give a really cool insight into it. Plus in all selfishness it would be really cool if they got a production skeksis for the office ❤️

I love how these guys always bring such a fresh perspective on whatever topic they discuss. I remembered noticing the change from showing in reality the effects of the dream kills in the original with Tina on the ceiling, then in four and five they ignore that and make the over the top deaths look more natural in reality. I always used to think that change was lame, but their point about it making it harder for people to believe they're being murdered is a really scary idea if their cause of death appears to be natural. It reminds me of the supposed inspiration for the original film, where Laotian refugees during the 70's and 80's died in their sleep from unknown causes, with some blaming it on a creature from far Eastern folklore suffocating them in their sleep. Also Mike not mentioning Lisa Wilcox's appearance on Star Trek shocked me, unless its in part 2.

idk how I've gone all these years without ever seeing Lisa from NoES as a young Meryl Streep, but now I can't unsee it...