NCTATNY. "Neverending Nightmares."

Not Coming to a Theater Near You wraps its "31 Days of Horror" series with an all-encompassing retrospective of the Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street movies, 18 features in all.

A "a foolproof formula the engine driving each, they begin to veer in wildly different directions, before - to the delight of many fans - merging in 2002's Freddy vs Jason," writes Rumsey Taylor, introducing the survey. "One has as its routine slasher killer a durable, taciturn and deformed son, who forever seeks vengeance for not only his mother's death, but his own. The other has a maniacal, effeminate, and outspoken child molester, burned alive at the hands of angry parents, and who vows to forever torment their children in their sleep. Each character has made for a great, even if critically derided, variety of scenarios, illustrating the very extent of a subgenre over the course of the past quarter-century."

Posted by dwhudson at October 31, 2006 9:25 AM