I think they added to Freddy's origin story in 3, where you get the ghost of his mom, a nun, who was sexually attacked by the inmates in an insane asylum so Freddy could be the son of a hundred maniacs! I don't think they actually enacted that scene until...5, I think, so that might've been the one you saw.
I do think that the Nightmare movies, along with a lot of popular '80s films, had an interesting vibe of glib, snarky, cynical "cool" teenage stuff mixed with situations that tended to be about everything they didn't know and didn't feel comfortable with. Stuff like Lost Boys and Night of the Creeps even has the Buffy-esque humor and horror combination, and it is kind of neat to go back and time and see all those cultural building blocks already in place before Buffy ever arrived.
But Buffy did far more with the characters, agreed. They became real people with layers. I loved that about the show, and haven't found it in too many places since. Boy, is it ever missed.
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Date: 2010-11-15 07:12 pm (UTC)I do think that the Nightmare movies, along with a lot of popular '80s films, had an interesting vibe of glib, snarky, cynical "cool" teenage stuff mixed with situations that tended to be about everything they didn't know and didn't feel comfortable with. Stuff like Lost Boys and Night of the Creeps even has the Buffy-esque humor and horror combination, and it is kind of neat to go back and time and see all those cultural building blocks already in place before Buffy ever arrived.
But Buffy did far more with the characters, agreed. They became real people with layers. I loved that about the show, and haven't found it in too many places since. Boy, is it ever missed.