Welcome to Late Night Retro Television Reviews, a feature where we review some of our favorite and least favorite shows of the past! On Fridays, I will be reviewing Freddy’s Nightmares, a horror anthology show which ran in syndication from 1988 to 1990. The entire series can be found on Tubi!

This week, it’s flesh-eating time!

Episode 2.15 “Prime Cut”

(Dir by David Calloway, originally aired on January 21st, 1990)

Tony Dow plays a hiker who worries that his guide (Sandal Bergman) might actually be a vampire.  Every few minutes, Dow either spots Bergman drinking blood or preparing to drink blood but then, just as suddenly, he wakes up.  Finally, he wakes up one final time and discovers that he’s actually been having feverish visions because he was in a plane crash and is now stranded in the wilderness.  He and Bergman are the only survivors of the crash and they’ve resorted to eating bodies of the other passengers.  Dow’s wife (Amy Lyndon) eventually stumbles on the two during her own abortive attempt to provide a rescue.  Uh-oh, will she now have to eat human flesh as well?

Ugh, this episode.  Both storylines had potential but they really didn’t go anywhere.  This was one of those episodes where, every few minutes, something weird would happen and then we would immediately cut to someone waking up.  While I understand that the dreams were a part of the show’s trademark, the episode still overused them.  It was far more dull than any show featuring Tony Down and Sandahl Bergman as cannibals had any right to be.