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Great Moments In Horror Hair History: Taryn’s Mohawk From ‘A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors’ (1987)

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Quick confession:  I had a major crush on Taryn from A Nightmare On Elm Street: Dream Warrior back in 1987.  I’m sure I wasn’t alone, but it was mostly due to her on-screen transformation from ‘Regular Tayrn’ into ‘Badass Sexy Knife-Wielding Mohawk Taryn’.

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The knives do look a little wimpy, but feast your eyes on that damn mohawk! Nothing can upstage some leather studs and wimpy knives more than an 8-inch hair erection.  When Taryn wasn’t abusing drugs, she was playing fantasy time with the other Dream Warriors and proclaiming that in her dreams, she’s beautiful……and bad!

Unfortunately for Taryn, she wasn’t bad enough and was no match for Freddy and his syringe fingers.  Maybe she should have worried more about her knife skills instead of asking him to dance.  At least it allowed Freddy to get a good one-liner in at the end of her death scene.  Nevertheless, we’re honoring Taryn’s mohawk and because of that, she’s been enshrined into the class of Great Moments In Horror Hair History!  Now let’s celebrate her achievement by watching her onscreen demise:

Sunday Bloody Sunday: ‘Debbie The Cockroach’ From ‘A Nightmare On Elm Street 4 – The Dream Master’ (1988)

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One of my worst fears besides having a snake bite me in the ass while I’m on the toilet, is being turned into a cockroach.  I despise cockroaches.  Ten times more than Tony Montana.  Which is why I felt so bad for poor Debbie in A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master because Freddy took cruel to a new level when he transformed her into one of those 6-legged fuckers.

Easily worthy of the spot on this week’s Sunday Bloody Sunday, Debbie’s death was creative, nasty, and one of the biggest achievements as far as practical effects go in the Elm Street franchise.  I’ll even take it one step further and say that I enjoy this sequel more than Dream Warriors.  Yeah, I said it, and there’s no going back now.  But this post is about Debbie The Cockroach.  So, let’s all take a look at her squishy demise, along with some of Freddy’s snappy one-liners, and applaud the use of practical effects in the 80’s!

On Second Thought: The Freddy Krueger Skeleton Scene From ‘A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors’ (1987)

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I think it’s safe to say that everyone who was submitted to A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, left with a really bad indescribable taste in their mouths.  Luckily, that taste was mostly taken away when the second sequel, A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, came out in 1987.  Sure, this was the beginning of what would become wisecracking Freddy, but the story was interesting (thanks in part to Frank Darabont) and it even sported an 80’s hair metal theme song from Dokken.  However, it also sported the scene where we were introduced to Freddy’s bones in a junkyard.

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Now, I can be forgiving of this scene to a certain degree.  CGI hadn’t made it’s impact yet, so the FX team had to make due with the resources that it had. But, did they have to take a step backwards and give us something straight out of the 1981 version of Clash Of The Titans?  Seriously – I kept waiting for Pegasus to swoop down and save the day.  To make matters worse, we get some pretty terrible overacting and fighting techniques from Dr. Neil Gordon. Why go by my interpretation though?  Check it out for yourself for the first time or relive it in the clip below:

Ahhh.  Yeah, the dubbing is off on that.  And the quality kind of sucks.  But trust me, you don’t want to see that clip in HD.  It’s a small bone to pick with an otherwise solid sequel, but a bone that needs to be picked nonetheless.  Is it wrong that I actually cheered for Skeleton Freddy when he knocked Dr. Gordon on his ass with the shovel and proceeded to bury him?  Too bad about John Saxon however.  I’m sure he’s glad he went out the way he did though: Fighting an extremely subpar-looking Freddy Krueger skeleton in a junkyard.

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