A Nightmare on Elm Street

Apex Mountain

Heather Langenkamp; the Katya Institute for the Study of Sleep Disorders; Balinese dream skills; 80s booby-trap movies

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  • Heather Langenkamp is a yes, followed by a riff on how to pronounce her name and Amanda Wiss Weiss's.
  • Johnny Depp is a no; Wes Craven is a no because his apex is Scream; Renee Blakely's is probably Nashville.
  • The Katya Institute for the Study of Sleep Disorders is a yes.
  • 80s horror movies are left unresolved: against Halloween, Chainsaw, Friday the 13th and the Freddy sequels as a cultural force with 1-900 numbers and Will Smith records, one view holds this is still the best one.
  • That view is challenged: Apex Mountain is where something is at its peak with its most juice, not the best, so the concept falls apart for 80s horror movies; The Shining, from summer 1980, is raised as a challenge, and no answer is settled.
  • Balinese dream skills are a yes; 80s MILF moms were probably done better; 80s booby-trap movies are a yes, since Kev came along in the 90s.