For the ones who don’t know it, The Goldbergs (2013– ) is an American television sitcom produced by Sony Pictures Television and aired on ABC. The series was created by Adam F. Goldberg and stars Wendi McLendon-Covey, Jeff Garlin, Sean Giambrone, Troy Gentile, Hayley Orrantia and George Segal. The show is based on Goldberg‘s childhood and family in the 1980s, complete with a childhood version of himself. It shows the reality of the ’80s through a young boy’s eyes. Along the series’ run, many celebrities or actors have been guest starring. People like David Spade, Charlie Sheen, Chuck Norris, Weird Al Yankovic or Rick Moranis have reprised some of their most iconic roles or TV appearances or simply have played some supporting role.
For the sixth season of the show, which it’s set to premiere on September 26, 2018, one of the most stellar guest appearances will have as protagonist Robert Englund, who will be in the burned skin of Freddy Krueger one last time. That will happen on the 5th episode of the new upcoming season. Besides some documentaries or archived footage, this marks the first time the actor returns to his most charismatic role since Freddy vs. Jason (2003) in a fiction feature. Although he has been the host of the TV series A Nightmare on Elm Street: Real Nightmares (2005– ).
It all started when the late director Wes Craven, who already had a name in horror movies thanks to his earlier films The Last House on the Left (1972), The Hills Have Eyes (1977), Swamp Thing (1982) and The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1984), created one of the most profitable franchises in modern film history. Written and directed by Craven, the iconic A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) served for Robert Englund to masterfully perform an insane and evil portrait of a serial killer who after being burned to death still manages to appear in a group of teenager’s dreams to murder them in some of the most gruesome and creepy humoristic ways film had seen to date. And from that, the rest is history.
It will be fun to see what kind of nightmares have the Goldberg kids when they witness Freddy go to his rollercoaster of torture murders in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). Because one can suspect the Robert Englund/Freddy Krueger will be about that, right? Well, correct me if I’m wrong!
