Wes craven does post modernism before it was cool, this 2 years before he revitilised the horror genre again with "Scream". The horror movie becomes reality as Freddy Krueger (Newly suited and booted, with a harsher glint in his eye, harsher than any of the sequels had) has been chosen by a demonic entity as a portal to the real world."The only way to stop Freddy is to make another movie." proclaims Wes Craven, as Wes Craven. It seems to be an interesting take on what the effects are on watching horror and even working in horror. Nearly everyone plays themselves, and there are a lot of tidbits and insider jokes for serious horror fans. You look at each set and there is immense detail to be found, the colour pattern of Wes Cravens office for example and what's on the shelves. The writing is extremely sharp, Wes craven has written and directed "New Nightmare", a film about him writing and directing "New Nightmare" and made it great. A highly original concept that he gets right.I watched this a few years ago and while enjoying it, i was baffled by what it all meant. After watching the whole franchise, and to be frank many more horrors, Wes Cravens New Nightmare was a joy on a number of levels.

Wes Craven is still the master of horror who created a masterpiece after watching all the movies in the series and couldn't follow the continuation set up.His genius mind went further by having the dream stalker haunt the real life actors and caste that created the original film.Taking the real life stalking incident involving Heather Lengkemp and the L.A earthquakes to invoke haunting imagery that makes you question if Freddy is real or is she being driven crazy by a maniacal madman who will stop at nothing to have Heather to himself.You can tell that Wes cared about the source he originally created by making it scary again. The scene were Heather falls into her husband's casket only for him to come alive have me the heevie jeebies. Freddy is the real life boogeyman that pops out from closets and underneath beds to eat or kill you. That way he was meant to be.Adding Heather's family was a tad bit recycled yet I loved how each one was involved or used in different ways. Chase who is the boulder and holds the household together. Heather our heroine in this center piece and her son Dylan who may or may not be a shell for Freddy to possess.Coming out during The scream era it does have a few nods t I other films or acknowledges they exist.The lighting is perfect, features the best acting in any of the films and delivered a suspenseful roller coaster ride that doesn't disappoint.If your tired of bad sequels and remakes check out new Nightmare.It will thrill you, chill You and may even kill you.

You can definitely see how this film lead to Wes creating one of the best horror movies of all time, Scream. But this Nightmare on Elm street sequel could have been so much better if Freddy's mask didn't look like a cheap Halloween mask. If it was meant to look like that just to keep the meta about this film then it was a bad decision. It looks goofy as hell and takes you out of the movie. Regardless, it is better than 95% of the other Nightmare sequels so you'll just have to take what you get. The film is about the real life actress, and real life actors, producers and director of the Nightmare series, dealing with a Freddy Krueger who has crossed over into our world. The script is smart but the stupid Freddy mask, as well as a few other flaws makes this film an ugly duckling.

I've heard this called the best Nightmare on Elm Street sequel and some have even called it better than the original Nightmare film. I can't say it's any of those things, but New Nightmare is one of the better movie in one of my favorite horror movie franchises and a refreshing entry after the abysmal Freddy's Dead. New Nightmare departs from Springwood, Ohio and instead takes place in the "real" world. Heather Langenkamp, the actress who played Nancy in the original film, is now a married mother, and she is contacted by Wes Craven to be in the definitive final Nightmare on Elm Street film. However, Heather has been having increasingly terrifying nightmares and phone calls that sound suspiciously like the films' iconic villain, Freddy Krueger. Her son's disturbing behavior also leads her to believe that the script that Wes is writing may not be just another movie. Arguably the best part about New Nightmare is all the nods and winks to the original film sprinkled in there. The phone gag from the first one is in there (which I admit still scared the crap out of me), and a majority of the deaths are reminiscent of other deaths in the series, particularly Tina's infamous death from the first movie and the motorcycle kill from The Dream Child. Wes Craven and Robert Englund also make cameo appearances in the film, although their subplots just sort of fizzle out towards the end. I also wasn't a big fan of Freddy trying to get a hold of Heather's son. The "creepy kid" scenes didn't really unsettle me and instead came off as hammy. But Wes obviously had a lot of fun with New Nightmare and ended the series with a clever take on the slasher film that would be replicated in the future with flops like Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. Personally, the criminally underrated The Dream Master will always be my favorite Nightmare sequel, but New Nightmare is a fun and sporadically scary slasher flick.