Hey all! So you may be wondering what this is. Well, since I couldn’t give you a brand new Wholesome Halloween this year, I thought it would be fun to do franchise-based supercuts of the individual slasher series I covered during Slasher Season, but now with the previously Patreon exclusive episodes thrown in as a bonus - if you just want to see the new stuff, there are chapter breaks and timestamps in the description. Something of note though is that, in the time since I created these videos, some pretty shady stuff happened with Spyglass Entertainment and their treatment of actress Melissa Barrera that, needless to say, I do not agree with. As a result of this (and as a result of the general state of the world), I'm releasing these videos in aid of the PCRF. I'll be giving my Patreon earnings for this month to the charity and you might have noticed each video will also have an accompanying fundraiser I would encourage you all to donate to. I’ll be pinning this comment to each upload to direct people to the fundraiser. I'll try and give ad revenue to the end of the year too if there is any, however, these supercuts have had to be created very last minute just due to how busy I am right now, so I'm currently having to release them with copyright disputes still ongoing and we'll have to wait and see how those resolve/if there is any ad rev to be had. After the 3rd supercut covering the Scream franchise drops, that will be the last ever video I publish on that franchise and I will not be covering Scream 7. Thank you for understanding. Before I finish writing here, I also just wanted to apologise and say that I’m sorry I couldn’t give you all a proper Wholesome Halloween season this year, but in case you aren’t aware I do have a new, over 2-hour long, October special in a similar style that I was commissioned to put out on a different channel covering the entire history of hell in cinema. The link is in the description if you want to check that out, and I’d appreciate it if you did and showed your support/liked and subscribed as I’d love to get more commission work from them. And on a final note, I just wanted to say I’m travelling to For The Love of Horror in Manchester this month for some work stuff, but I’ll also be wandering around the convention, so if you happen to see me there, feel free to say hi! Anyway, happy Halloween and enjoy the video!
Watching these Wholesome Halloween videos when they came out was a huge comfort in my life, which, to be honest, has been riddled with anxiety and low-key depression. I was having a bad day yesterday, and seeing this video come out and rewatching this incredible joyful series was just what I needed. Thank you so much for making (and rereleasing!) this work. It’s a real treat to watch.
2:08:28 is absolute gold. I can feel your frustration and growing madness in that laugh and topping it off with that exasperated "WHAT?!" cracks me up every time.
One more. I agree with you, Dan. Imo, it's no contest, Freddy looks THE SCARIEST in part 2!!!!! The red eyes, the elongated nose, and the way it always looks like someone doused Robert England in translucent slime right before they yelled "Action!" It's TERRIFYING!!!
Except Freddy DOES possess other characters in latter films. He does it in "Freddy Vs Jason" . Also pretty sure he possess one of the characters in Freddie's Dead . Also, also he was trying to posses Alice's unborn child in part 5
There's no denying how groundbreaking A Nightmare on Elm Street was. I'm not bagging on other slashers or anything, BIG FAN! But, at the time, the originality, scariness, and universal relatability of this movie made even Halloween look pretty one dimensional. And Freddy Krueger opened the door for countless supernatural and/or wisecracking slasher villains.
Interesting to note that they did a similar thing in Big Trouble in Little China, with regards to ANOES 2. The side character is the hero while the main protagonist is the victim or doofus.
I went to see Dream Warriors at a theater BY MYSELF when I was 10. Ngl, the opening sequence had me thinking that I might have made a mistake. And "the puppet scene" ALMOST had me fleeing the theater. But, I stuck around for the whole, FANTASTIC thing. I felt like quite the little 10 year old BADASS walking out of that theater! To this day, Dream Warriors is the only movie in the franchise that I ❤ as much as the original! There's no denying that at times this movie gets about as 1987 CHEESY as you can get. BUT, I'll give backup, Dan! "I LOOOOVE THIS SHIT!!!!!!!!!!"
Awesome story! My sister accidentally walked into Dream Warriors in the cinema back in 87', after mistaking the wrong screening room when returning from a bathroom break. I can still remember her sitting nervously next to me, and telling me that she walked into this scary movie, didn't see me and my mom, so she sat down for a minute to make sure, watched some blonde woman enter a spooky house with children singing and jump roping out front, and then realized she was in the wrong cinema. Two years later I ended up watching the film on VHS, at a very young age, and loved it, but it definitely stuck with me for a long time. It was my first Nightmare film, but the only Nightmare film I ever saw in the cinema was New Nightmare, by myself as well, in a near empty cinema. Great times. There was a Monster Squad billboard outside the first cinema, which is the film I initially wanted to see.
re, Part 2: All of 5 is about Freddy trying to possess Alice's unborn child in a way, latching on to him to enter other people's dreams and kill, and he literally possesses Not Jay in FvJ in order to put Jason to sleep in the real world.
That's covered in this Friday's video covering Friday The 13th movies. I didn't want to repeat myself and I thought it best to do it after speaking on both characters since it features both.
As a Gen Xer who was allowed to basically watch whatever I wanted growing up, I'd guess that I was probably 8 the first time I watched Elm Street on home video in 1985. I was pretty desensitized about horror movies, but my 14 year old brother warned our Mom that this movie just might scare the 💩 out of me. He was right!! I had a pretty hard time sleeping for a while. I think that the original Elm Street is the best idea that anyone has ever had for a horror movie! Happy 40th anniversary to one of my BIGGEST childhood traumatizers, and one of THE GREATEST horror movies of all time!!!!
28:00 Yes, Freddy can possess people. And he did do it more than once… e.g - Part 3, he possessed his own corpse. And Freddy vs Jason when he possessed the character Freeburg
Comment for the algorithm gods. I doubt you meant the pun of "assaulted nun train". But. Those maniacs probably did indeed do a train. 😬😬 (im so so sorry)
I took the "Bastard Son of 100 Maniacs" as Freddy being a child born from horrific, repeated violence. He was born through utter trauma due to the manics. Doesn't matter which one was the actual father, though there is that shot of Robert Englund without makeup in the scene suggesting that's the actual father.
Thrilled to hear it! If you like this you should definitely check out the other seasons of Wholesome Halloween. There's a whole 100 episodes to discover.
I... wonder if it might be worth me watching the reboot? I've seen the original multiple times, and I just... want to like it more than I actually do, and I think part of the reason for that is that the subtlety makes my brain go 'I don't know what's happening??? I don't know if I'm understanding what's happening the way I'm meant to??? what's going on???' in a way that's detrimental to me processing media. I don't even know if I'd like it - that freddy reaching through the wall shot does clearly look just worse - but also the transition between the waking classroom and the dream classroom looks really cool to me. [and weirdly, I process stuff that way because of the Autism]
Rooney Mara pretty much came out and said this was a miserable experience and it almost made her quit acting and not to be unkind, but you can tell. Her performance feels phoned in and that’s so disappointing. As a child of the 80s who grew up on this franchise, I was excited for the possibility for Freddy to be scary again and this just missed the mark horribly.
Nightmare on elm Street 6 is kinda brilliant. I think you missed the point Freddy grows power from kid souls he kills and takes their soul.He litteraly has killed all the kids on elm Street dude was basically a god and warping reality AT this point that's why he was able to do all this crazy shit in flim. He saved the last kid on elm Street to bring back his daughter so he could leave elm Street even tho he had grew in power he still was a ghost attached to elm Street. 7 is even more brilliant people still talk about 7 till this day.
John Carpenters Halloween 2008 - 2025 and Sean Cunninghams Friday The 13th 2010 - 2016 and Wes Cravens A Nightmare On Elm Street 2014 - 2021 and A - Z and By Year and Block Busters Audio and Video and Net Flix Audio and Video Can Co Exist With Each Other
Tbh I think the original writers and directors are often to blame for the poop fest of 80's horror sequels by thinking their originals, usually just a guy killing mostly forgettable horny teens in either some creative way or for a creative reason with little else being very, err, "intellectual". Aside from Hellraiser which was actually overflowing with awesome ideas in its first two films, the original creators should have just embraced the whole franchise thing and done their best to make the films at least consistent.
Your take on nightmare on elm Street 2 was funny. You pointed out some I never paid attention too. Everyone was claiming what's woke now but it's clear woke culture been here.
2 things that annoy me about this video: the overt hate towards Freddy's conception backstory and the sheer number of times you say "Freddy baby". I get it, you don't like that story thread; stop repeating yourself. Don't complain about scripts of movie franchises when your own are so repetitive and annoying.
Hey all! So you may be wondering what this is. Well, since I couldn’t give you a brand new Wholesome Halloween this year, I thought it would be fun to do franchise-based supercuts of the individual slasher series I covered during Slasher Season, but now with the previously Patreon exclusive episodes thrown in as a bonus - if you just want to see the new stuff, there are chapter breaks and timestamps in the description.
Something of note though is that, in the time since I created these videos, some pretty shady stuff happened with Spyglass Entertainment and their treatment of actress Melissa Barrera that, needless to say, I do not agree with.
As a result of this (and as a result of the general state of the world), I'm releasing these videos in aid of the PCRF. I'll be giving my Patreon earnings for this month to the charity and you might have noticed each video will also have an accompanying fundraiser I would encourage you all to donate to. I’ll be pinning this comment to each upload to direct people to the fundraiser.
I'll try and give ad revenue to the end of the year too if there is any, however, these supercuts have had to be created very last minute just due to how busy I am right now, so I'm currently having to release them with copyright disputes still ongoing and we'll have to wait and see how those resolve/if there is any ad rev to be had.
After the 3rd supercut covering the Scream franchise drops, that will be the last ever video I publish on that franchise and I will not be covering Scream 7. Thank you for understanding.
Before I finish writing here, I also just wanted to apologise and say that I’m sorry I couldn’t give you all a proper Wholesome Halloween season this year, but in case you aren’t aware I do have a new, over 2-hour long, October special in a similar style that I was commissioned to put out on a different channel covering the entire history of hell in cinema. The link is in the description if you want to check that out, and I’d appreciate it if you did and showed your support/liked and subscribed as I’d love to get more commission work from them.
And on a final note, I just wanted to say I’m travelling to For The Love of Horror in Manchester this month for some work stuff, but I’ll also be wandering around the convention, so if you happen to see me there, feel free to say hi!
Anyway, happy Halloween and enjoy the video!
Just in time for my yearly rewatch of every single Wholesome Halloween episode.
Watching these Wholesome Halloween videos when they came out was a huge comfort in my life, which, to be honest, has been riddled with anxiety and low-key depression. I was having a bad day yesterday, and seeing this video come out and rewatching this incredible joyful series was just what I needed. Thank you so much for making (and rereleasing!) this work. It’s a real treat to watch.
Comments like these mean the world to me. Thank you for sharing this and I hope you feel better these days.
ohh we are so back! (i'm on a wholesome halloween rewatch anyway, it's really not halloween without it
happy wholesome halloween Dram Fam!
1:12:31 Dream Warriors is such a bop 🔥🔥🔥🤘🏼
As soon as I see a notification from you, I drop whatever I was doing and tune in. I love every one of your videos!
Thank you so much!
Im looking forward to watching this in full. Thank you
Hope you enjoy!
2:08:28 is absolute gold. I can feel your frustration and growing madness in that laugh and topping it off with that exasperated "WHAT?!" cracks me up every time.
One more. I agree with you, Dan. Imo, it's no contest, Freddy looks THE SCARIEST in part 2!!!!! The red eyes, the elongated nose, and the way it always looks like someone doused Robert England in translucent slime right before they yelled "Action!" It's TERRIFYING!!!
Glad to see you washed that silly human make up off.
Except Freddy DOES possess other characters in latter films. He does it in "Freddy Vs Jason" . Also pretty sure he possess one of the characters in Freddie's Dead . Also, also he was trying to posses Alice's unborn child in part 5
I’m a simple man, I see a Dan Drambles video in my notifications, I have to watch it
This Fred head gave this 5/5 ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A welcome endorsement.
I love you approach. It's really satisfying to see the angle of someone who's taking notes immediately. You deserve a way bigger following
Thank you so much ☺️
There's no denying how groundbreaking A Nightmare on Elm Street was. I'm not bagging on other slashers or anything, BIG FAN! But, at the time, the originality, scariness, and universal relatability of this movie made even Halloween look pretty one dimensional. And Freddy Krueger opened the door for countless supernatural and/or wisecracking slasher villains.
It is official...I am a Dram Fan.
Part 2 is golden! The first three films are top shelf in my opinion 🥇
Brilliant coverage of Nightmare library!
Interesting to note that they did a similar thing in Big Trouble in Little China, with regards to ANOES 2. The side character is the hero while the main protagonist is the victim or doofus.
I went to see Dream Warriors at a theater BY MYSELF when I was 10. Ngl, the opening sequence had me thinking that I might have made a mistake. And "the puppet scene" ALMOST had me fleeing the theater. But, I stuck around for the whole, FANTASTIC thing. I felt like quite the little 10 year old BADASS walking out of that theater! To this day, Dream Warriors is the only movie in the franchise that I ❤ as much as the original! There's no denying that at times this movie gets about as 1987 CHEESY as you can get. BUT, I'll give backup, Dan! "I LOOOOVE THIS SHIT!!!!!!!!!!"
Awesome story! My sister accidentally walked into Dream Warriors in the cinema back in 87', after mistaking the wrong screening room when returning from a bathroom break. I can still remember her sitting nervously next to me, and telling me that she walked into this scary movie, didn't see me and my mom, so she sat down for a minute to make sure, watched some blonde woman enter a spooky house with children singing and jump roping out front, and then realized she was in the wrong cinema. Two years later I ended up watching the film on VHS, at a very young age, and loved it, but it definitely stuck with me for a long time. It was my first Nightmare film, but the only Nightmare film I ever saw in the cinema was New Nightmare, by myself as well, in a near empty cinema. Great times. There was a Monster Squad billboard outside the first cinema, which is the film I initially wanted to see.
@@Dude-oh8vq Wolfman's got nards!
Aw, man. Hearing that wholesome theme song again makes me so happy.
re, Part 2: All of 5 is about Freddy trying to possess Alice's unborn child in a way, latching on to him to enter other people's dreams and kill, and he literally possesses Not Jay in FvJ in order to put Jason to sleep in the real world.
Happy to be treated with a supercut release this year as a member of the Dram Fam.
awesome!
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I am here for this!
Fantastic video. Thanks for all your hard work!
Ahh my favourite skelly man returns! Hooray!
Just started the video and subbed after seeing the pcrf fundraiser. Looking forward to following you and finishing the video
Fantastic analysis. One of the best I've seen yet
Thank you so much!
Dan the man is back again 🎃 Another brilliant video retrospective treat to one of my fav franchises
Honestly part 2 is my favorite film in the series.
Slasher Season happened at such a good time in my life. An incredible series that was. I'll take any excuse to revisit
“the bastard son of a 100 maniacs” i think it’s hilarious!
Freddy VS Jason is so much better than the 2010 NOES. I wish you’d broken that one down instead. It has Robert so it’s canon.
That's covered in this Friday's video covering Friday The 13th movies. I didn't want to repeat myself and I thought it best to do it after speaking on both characters since it features both.
As a Gen Xer who was allowed to basically watch whatever I wanted growing up, I'd guess that I was probably 8 the first time I watched Elm Street on home video in 1985. I was pretty desensitized about horror movies, but my 14 year old brother warned our Mom that this movie just might scare the 💩 out of me. He was right!! I had a pretty hard time sleeping for a while. I think that the original Elm Street is the best idea that anyone has ever had for a horror movie! Happy 40th anniversary to one of my BIGGEST childhood traumatizers, and one of THE GREATEST horror movies of all time!!!!
I just found your channel….and am so excited to binge all your vids!
Glad you like it!
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28:00 Yes, Freddy can possess people. And he did do it more than once…
e.g - Part 3, he possessed his own corpse. And Freddy vs Jason when he possessed the character Freeburg
Comment for the algorithm gods. I doubt you meant the pun of "assaulted nun train". But. Those maniacs probably did indeed do a train. 😬😬 (im so so sorry)
Elbow Pads and Knee Pads and Taped Wrists and MMA Style Gloves
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New to your channel. When you said Dram fans I immediately thought "Ain't no telling what I'm gonna be on. I'm beyond all the f**k sh*t"
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I took the "Bastard Son of 100 Maniacs" as Freddy being a child born from horrific, repeated violence. He was born through utter trauma due to the manics. Doesn't matter which one was the actual father, though there is that shot of Robert Englund without makeup in the scene suggesting that's the actual father.
I prefer this interpretation.
@@DanDrambles Love the videos! You should do one on the Freddy TV show. XD
@@RMartian76 if I had the time and a decent copy I probably would.
Found this in my recommended list. Def subscribed and added about 90 percent of your videos to my work playlist
Thrilled to hear it! If you like this you should definitely check out the other seasons of Wholesome Halloween. There's a whole 100 episodes to discover.
I... wonder if it might be worth me watching the reboot? I've seen the original multiple times, and I just... want to like it more than I actually do, and I think part of the reason for that is that the subtlety makes my brain go 'I don't know what's happening??? I don't know if I'm understanding what's happening the way I'm meant to??? what's going on???' in a way that's detrimental to me processing media. I don't even know if I'd like it - that freddy reaching through the wall shot does clearly look just worse - but also the transition between the waking classroom and the dream classroom looks really cool to me. [and weirdly, I process stuff that way because of the Autism]
I'd say give it a try. You might like it a lot more than me.
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28:07 Yes! Freddy Vs Jason, with Freebird.
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Rooney Mara pretty much came out and said this was a miserable experience and it almost made her quit acting and not to be unkind, but you can tell. Her performance feels phoned in and that’s so disappointing. As a child of the 80s who grew up on this franchise, I was excited for the possibility for Freddy to be scary again and this just missed the mark horribly.
I would love to see you look at Sleepaway Camp if you ever feel so inclined.
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Nightmare on elm Street 6 is kinda brilliant. I think you missed the point Freddy grows power from kid souls he kills and takes their soul.He litteraly has killed all the kids on elm Street dude was basically a god and warping reality AT this point that's why he was able to do all this crazy shit in flim. He saved the last kid on elm Street to bring back his daughter so he could leave elm Street even tho he had grew in power he still was a ghost attached to elm Street. 7 is even more brilliant people still talk about 7 till this day.
57:48 aight u got me. I’ll subscribe… Grim Balor.
Grim Balor! I love that haha
1:20:30 don’t watch hostel 2
How about Dramily?
That's way better.
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Tbh I think the original writers and directors are often to blame for the poop fest of 80's horror sequels by thinking their originals, usually just a guy killing mostly forgettable horny teens in either some creative way or for a creative reason with little else being very, err, "intellectual". Aside from Hellraiser which was actually overflowing with awesome ideas in its first two films, the original creators should have just embraced the whole franchise thing and done their best to make the films at least consistent.
Your take on nightmare on elm Street 2 was funny. You pointed out some I never paid attention too. Everyone was claiming what's woke now but it's clear woke culture been here.
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2 things that annoy me about this video: the overt hate towards Freddy's conception backstory and the sheer number of times you say "Freddy baby".
I get it, you don't like that story thread; stop repeating yourself. Don't complain about scripts of movie franchises when your own are so repetitive and annoying.
As a cynical nihilist who loves reveling in meaningless sex and violence, the first nine minutes of your review anthology made me turn off the video.
Why? I don't say those things are bad, do I?
@@DanDrambles Haha, I felt that your condemnation of misanthropy was heavily implied. But okay, I'll watch again. I love Freddy Krueger ^_^