I'm a huge Wes Craven fan, so I was expecting to like this, but I didn't expect it to unsettle me as much as it did. It's silly in the special way Craven movies are, and often very funny. Lots of the special effects look weird and dated (though they do look more 2002 than 1994, so congrats I guess), and for maybe 90 minutes of the 110 minute runtime I thought this felt like the buildup to a buildup, the first ten minutes of a suggestion of fear stretched out a little too long. but when the final climax starts up, I have to tell you, it scared the hell out of me. In the back of my mind…

Hooptober 4.0 - 2017 - Film #14

Earlier today I was reading a story about a man whose penis was stolen in 2012. Fei Lin, a 41 year old man from China, was sleeping peacefully when he was rudely awoken by a bunch of men. They shoved a bag over his head, pulled down his pants and then before he knew it they were gone. Taking the bag off his head, he looked down only to be completely shocked that his penis was missing. The thieves had chopped off his dick and had run away with it into the night. The police never found the men who did it, nor did they find his cock.

So, when Freddie's bladed glove…

Every kid knows who Freddy is. He's like Santa Claus, or King Kong.
-Heather Langenkamp

Probably my favorite Nightmare on Elm Street sequel as it might be even better written then the original. Wes Craven comes back for the 7th film and manages to recreate the tone and mood from his 1984 original. What I think is so ingenious is that he does this not by ignoring what went wrong with all the previous sequels, but actually using it for his story.

Craven knows that Freddy Krueger killing the Elm Street teens in their sleep has been overdone and it has become to familiar. It needs to be something that our protagonist knows is a threat, but will be unbelievable…

A lot of times I have a spiral notebook on the coffee table while I'm watching a movie, mainly to write down a quote I find hilarious or the name of a list I have to add the movie to once I find myself on Letterboxd again. I thought I would take the time to let everyone know what I wrote while watching Wes Craven's New Nightmare.

An almost blank page with four possible list additions and the single thought - "crotch grab, SO CGI!"

New Nightmare came out in 1994. This is an awkward time for horror films, a film can either be chock-full of the best practical special FX after a decade of perfection, or riddled with a…

After "Freddy's Dead" leaving many fans with sour tastes in their mouths, Craven came back with full force to give people a brand new "Nightmare" film, but with a twist, and that twist being that it's about him making a new film in the series as a means of containing some form of evil, and the film in question is the one we're currently watching and unfolds as he puts it together.

As I've mentioned before, I'm not a fan of meta narratives, but part of the reason why for some (particularly Craven's own "Scream" or most recently "The Final Girls") is because it distracts from the narrative to point out things that the audience themselves can put together and…

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Every kid knows who Freddy is. He's like Santa Claus... or King Kong or...

A Nightmare on Elm Street – Ranked: boxd.it/2bMpk

Eu realmente não imaginava que o sétimo longa de uma franquia slasher poderia ser tão bom assim... até ver quem dirigiu e escreveu.

A trama do filme é simplesmente genial, trazer o Freddy Krueger para a vida real, quem diria né? O novo visual do assassino ficou perfeito e combina bastante com a personalidade do vilão no filme. Os efeitos práticos aqui estão impecáveis e funcionam super bem até hoje. A trilha sonora foi usada de maneira ótima, assim como no primeiro e no terceiro filme da saga.

O maior problema? Acho que no terceiro ato o…