David Chaskin

Movies

Steel Cut Oats
Radio Host
Steel Cut Oats is a stop-motion/live-action hybrid film about a washed-up boxer who builds a giant monster out of oatmeal to defend himself from the mobsters who betrayed him… and ends up raising it as a son.
Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street
Self
A retrospective look at A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) and the life of its lead actor, Mark Patton.
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Self
For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.
Bygone Behemoth
The Agent
A washed-up movie monster relives his halcyon days.
Midnight's Child
Writer
Spooky tale of a lawyer who sees Satan in the Swiss au pair she and her artist husband have hired for their young daughter.
I, Madman
Screenplay
A bookshop clerk starts seeing the disfigured killer from her favorite 1950s pulp novels come to life and start killing people around her.
The Curse
Screenplay
Nathan Hayes is a religious man trying to hold onto his farm and keep his family in line. A real estate developer is trying to buy most of the farm property in the area, including Mr. Hayes family farm, in the hope that the Tennesse Valley Authority will choose the town for the site of a new dam and recreational area. The night of a terrible storm, an unidentified, glowing object crashes on the Hayes farm and with it comes a horrible curse for the Hayes family and the members of the community.
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
Writer
Jesse Walsh moves with his family into the home of the lone survivor from a series of attacks by dream-stalking monster Freddy Krueger. There, Jesse is bedeviled by nightmares and inexplicably violent impulses. It turns out Freddy is out to possess him in order to continue his reign of terror in the real world.
Movie Buffs
Camera Operator
Animated short.
It's a Bird
Perry White
A Superman flying beyond imagination: the Bucalo-Niosi-Scaramozzino trio's masterpiece parody.