Terminator 2 was the second ‘real’ VHS cassette that I owned, Total Recall being the first. I had VHS movies before that, but they were mostly grainy SLP recordings of movies played on the HBO Free Preview Weekends. These, though, were cellophane-wrapped sleeves with official artwork, like what you picked up to look at in…
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Fred, Old Boy – MTV Freddy Krueger Special (1988)
MTV’s support for 1998’s Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master was pretty intense. In addition to wallpapering their commercial breaks with movie ads, sponsorship tie-ins, and conveniently in-depth “MTV News” segments, the network also aired The Freddy Krueger Special, a one-hour block featuring Freddy himself. A mixture of somewhat on-theme music videos, less…