Quickly, more kid-friendly monsters also began appearing: Gremlins (described by TV Guide as “cynically aimed to draw an audience of small children who would no doubt be terrorized”), Beetlejuice, Garbage Pail Kids, and the assorted terrors running through Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Goosebumps, Tales From the Crypt, Tales from the Darkside, and Are You Afraid of the Dark? Horror bled out of theaters, books, and TV screens in a million ways. Over the next seven years, Jason, Freddy, and Michael Myers would star in 10 more movies. Those franchises had released a combined seven films by the time Freddy came for us in A Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984. The horror boom began, more or less, with Michael Myers hacking through a closet door in 1978’s Halloween, and continued with Friday the 13th in 1980. In the 1980s, many factors - directors who grew up on monster movies, experimentation in what children’s media could be and do, even the creation of the PG-13 rating - came together to let scary films for kids “flourish a bit,” she says. The time was “a really key period in the development of horror for children,” says Catherine Lester, the author of Horror Films for Children and lecturer in film and television at the University of Birmingham in the UK. Strangely, much of it was marketed to children. Much like today’s entertainment landscape is fixated on superheroes, in the 1980s and 1990s, murders and monsters held an absolutely brutal dominance over pop culture.
You didn’t need to find Freddy, he was going to find you. At the time, he was the subject of chatter at the bike rack, jokes in Mad Magazine or The Simpsons, TV commercials, Halloween costumes, and more. I didn’t have to watch the movies to know Freddy was a knife-fingered, pizza-faced monster waiting to kill me in my dreams. Part of the Horror Issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world.Īs a kid in the 1980s, I never once saw a Nightmare on Elm Street movie, but I still grew up terrified of Freddy Krueger.
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