Hilarious post. And from the look of the replies, it's reminding a lot of people of a number of different things. Well, what it reminded ME of is the horrendously bad "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare." This entry in the "Nightmare On Elm Street" series rates the fewest stars but the most turkeys.

In one scene, Freddy somehow traps a kid in a video game and plays it -- cruelly causing him to boink into walls and subjecting him to various other sorts of abuse. This very scene epitomizes the Fall of Freddy: in the first movie (and even the awful second episode) Freddy was treated seriously, shot in shadows, and generally frightening, while in the later episodes of the series (excepting "New Nightmare," which is actually good) he's a buffoon. During this arcade sequence, for example, we are treated to such hilariously awful one-liners as "Beat my high score!" and to Freddy bobbing his head up and down and going "boing-boing-boing-boing" as the video game character is made to jump up and down. You'd have thought they were making a comedy on purpose.

S "only knows about 80s slasher flicks because he went so long *without* knowing about them and finally figured that, as a web-based film critic, he really ought to educate himself with that subgenre, so he watched the entire Nightmare, Halloween, and Friday series in order and in succession and nearly died from the experience, in spite of finding about three and a half movies amongst the 23 that were surprisingly worthwhile" am