Synopsis
This time the terror doesn't stop at the screen.
In this meta horror film, a demonic entity uses the fictional character of Freddy Krueger to enter the real world and torment "Elm Street" heroine Heather Langenkamp and her family.
1994 Directed by Wes Craven
In this meta horror film, a demonic entity uses the fictional character of Freddy Krueger to enter the real world and torment "Elm Street" heroine Heather Langenkamp and her family.
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"The fans, god bless em, they're clamorring for more. I guess evil never dies, right?"
"It was a script... it was a dream."
The consequence of working in arts and production and being able to turn your dreams into reality is that you can inadvertently do the same with your nightmares. Starts out as something resembling a very strange, funny little industry satire before gradually unfurling itself into a genuinely uncanny piece of horror metafiction where the monster known for infiltrating our fantasies (and gruesomely, viscerally blurring the line between tangible reality and surreal imagination) infiltrates the ultimate collective fantasy in some of the scariest, most delirious setpieces Craven ever conjured up. Miss him so much. Also, never got old seeing my pals Robert Englund and John Saxon just play themselves for a bit.
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…
It's okay but I really missed campy Freddy🤷♀️. This movie takes itself soo seriously that I find it a bit dull.🥱
Freddy looks like an old pervert in that stupid black trench coat. Was it supposed to be his cool new look?🙄
Deadbeat dad energy.🖕
Still a decent enough movie. Mainly because Heather Langenkamp absolutely kills it🏆. Wish she was still getting cast in horror movies.🎬
It's just not as clever as it thinks it is. Wes did the meta thing much better with Scream.👻
Very glad corny quippy loser Freddy comes back for the Jason crossover.
Although, I’m still Team Jason.😝
Reality, meet fantasy.
I adore the first two acts of this movie, culminating in what may be my favorite sequence in this franchise—after the freeway scene when heather runs back to her home where she cinematic king John Saxon starts talking to her… The moment he stops calling her heather and starts calling her Nancy as Freddy finally breaks through and Nosferatu walks out of Dylan’s room is aces, plus the street scene where we now see 1428 elm as the nightmare theme kicks in still gives me best possible movie watching feeling an idiot like me could get. I’m not the biggest fan of the third act but regardless… this is fun and always a pleasure to revisit.
Hard to believe this came out ten years after the OG Nightmare... harder to believe it’s been 27 years since then.
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Wes Craven's ode to the fantasies and nightmares of his career. Scary, silly, deeply moving - the Craven special. Heather/Nancy's dive into Freddy's netherworld dreamscape is one of the greatest moments in 90s horror.
New Nightmare is the best one in the franchise after the original and Dream Warriors. The plot is so meta, blurring lines between reality and fantasy. In previous sequels Freddy became more camp than scary, Wes brought him back to his scary roots here. Tho the movie feels kinda lengthy and without any of the humour of the rest of the series. Heather Langenkamp's performance is surprisingly good unlike her last two in the series.
There really isn’t a review I could write to do justice to the relationship I have to this movie. It came out when I was like 15 years old so it was that time when I was getting physically close to being able to see R rated movies on my own, but I still technically couldn’t unless I got sneaky and oh say, purchased a previously viewed copy from my local video store, but until that happened I was utterly OBSESSED with this movie and everything about it. The poster. The trailer. The marketing. I ate it allllll up and wanted more. I read the novelization over and over just trying to get it all in until I had access…
“The more she read, the more she realized what she had in her hands was nothing more or less than her life itself. That everything she had experienced and thought was bound within these pages. There was no movie. There was only...her...life...”
Regards, Wes.
Craven's speech in this as himself seems to be calling out the sequels for not taking this shit seriously enough. Maybe he was right to: back under his watch the series course corrects from self parody to self actualization as Craven folds together fairy tales, bogus mythology and something vaguely apocalyptic on top of what essentially seems to be about the truly horrific procceses of creativity, grief, aging, and parenting. It's often silly, but never impotent. We were lucky to have Wes Craven in mainstream horror.
wes craven really said fuck y’all lame ass sequels here’s how to make a good horror movie