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CT Clay Travis Clay Travis Sports and politics broadcaster and writer who covers college football, the SEC and national elections.

“There's something particularly terrifying about the idea that you're going to be attacked while you are sleeping, which makes it virtually impossible to actually go to sleep.”

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show · US Politics · October 2026

“There's something particularly terrifying about the idea that you're going to be attacked while you are sleeping, which makes it virtually impossible to actually go to sleep.” — Clay Travis, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Context

Clay explains why the Nightmare on Elm Street movies scared him as a kid, and why he prefers psychological horror to gore.

Transcript

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Clay Travis

…a Halloween fun, uh, vibe here. I told my wife a little bit earlier, I want to watch a scary movie tonight. Now, I really like scary movies. I loved the original Scary Movies,. I've seen every one of the Scary Movies,. Not a guts and gore scary movie guy, but more of a sort of psychological scary movie guy. My movies that have most terrified me, Nightmare on Elm Street, When I was a kid, I think there's something particularly terrifying about the idea that you're going to be attacked while you are sleeping, which makes it virtually impossible to actually go to sleep. I was both in love with and terrified by the Nightmare on Elm Street movies when I was a kid, back in the 1980s, watching those. Not so much of a Jason guy. The Halloween movies are scary, but the idea that Freddy Krueger might just show up in your dream at any moment, stalk you, kill you, and that you would die in your dream, that is a really tough thing when you are a young kid and you are…

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Okay.

Clay Travis

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Have some sort of advantage, which, by the way, sports is not fair in any sort of way whatsoever.

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