20- The Light at the End of the Tunnel

There's a pretty cool story about self-help voodoo used to terrorize a sleazy video store owner in the second segment. And there's DICK MILLER in the first one. Any judgment I pronounce on this episode should be taken with a grain of salt because having my eyes graced with the epic coolness of Dick Miller causes me to lose my objectivity almost every time. (He's "Mr. Futterman" from GREMLINS if you don't know who I'm talking about. Visigoths.)

Miller has some great lines in his segment about a sewer worker who's terrified of tight spaces. It has some good scenes and effective nightmare moments. The second segment, though repetitive, works surprisingly well because the person being tormented is such an unremittant scumbag.

This episode is often misidentified as "Freddy Something" because it has the notorious opening sequence where Freddy takes over an episode of "Thirty Something" by stabbing the father and hanging the mother. This show is all about the family values.