Welcome to my Nightmare! You’ve guessed it, this year’s Friday Night Frights theme will be the mainline entries in the A Nightmare on Elm Street series. In fact, expect to see a lot of Freddy’s toasted mug here at the Dorkside for a while. And though I’d originally planned on posting write ups following their cinematic chronological order, there’s a 4k disc of the original coming out toward the end of October I’m waiting on so we’re just gonna have to work our way backwards. There are now only 6 Fridays left until Halloween so we’d better get going, beginning with Freddy’s Dead The Final Nightmare.

It’s time for Freddy 101!

Well, here we are now just past the halfway point of September and I’m already feeling like the Autumn season is passing too quickly. Like I’m just not getting enough Halloween in me. The weather has been perfectly moody: brisk chills, dark cloudy skies and falling leaves collecting on every sidewalk. Do you guys know what this means? With only several weeks to go leading up to the big day it’s time to really crank up the scene here, man.

It’s time to hit the pumpkin patch!

While it may still be September for the average citizen, around the Dorkside here there have been signs of Halloween creeping in since mid-August. And now that we have arrived at the last Friday the 13th before the big day, I’d say it’s time to watch Jason Voorhees get his spooky groove on. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the fan favorite 3rd sequel subtitled The Final Chapter, so that’s as good a choice to throw on as any. You remember, it’s the one that slammed a corkscrew into the franchise and ended it forever.

Oh wait nevermind, they made like 8 more after this. Hey where the Hell is that corkscrew anyway?

In the last Nintendo Direct there were plenty of software announcements to get excited about but the one that had the hairs on the back of my hairs stand up was one reveal in particular: A collection of classic Capcom developed arcade games featuring both their own internal characters as well as Marvel IP was miraculously on the way. Now, I have no idea how many legal hoops needed to be jumped through in order for this to happen; but to say that this is truly a huge deal for any fan of fighting games as well as both companies would be the definition of an understatement. And now it’s here.

I’m taking breaks from writing this to play it right now.

It seems to be fairly common with reviewers of a certain age that they often feel the need to lead off by aggressively waving their nerd cred flag back and forth. Y’know how it goes, this general sense of nostalgia fueled ownership seeps in as though the topic of discussion was their own personal discovery. These people are here to provide not opinion, but insight. I’m just going to say that yes I was a huge fan of Tim Burton back in his early days and yes, I have loved the original Beetlejuice since I was a kid. It holds a special place in my heart not only because it’s a great movie, but because I also fondly remember the act of trying to see it.