New Nightmare(1994).It's nearing the 10th Anniversary of the film 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' and one of the stars, Heather Langenkamp is being scared by a voice on a phone, sounding very similar to the film's villain, Freddy Krueger. When Heather's husband is killed in a car accident and is discovered with slash marks on him, Heather starts to wonder something. Especially when she discovers that Wes Craven is writing another 'Nightmare' film. Soon, she realizes that Freddy has now entered the real world, and the only way to defeat him is to become Nancy Thompson once again. Written byFilm_Fan... Synopsis New Nightmare(1994)
Movie Title: New Nightmare(1994)
Run Time: 112 min
Rating: 6.3 / 10
Genres: Horror |Mystery |Thriller
Release Date: 14 October 1994 (USA)
Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Wes Craven (characters),Wes Craven... and other credits
Actor: Heather Langenkamp,Robert Englund,Jeff Davis
I will go out on a long, long limb here and say that Wes Craven's New Nightmare is the best of the series. That said you should at least watch the first one before you watch this because it will help a lot to tell you what is going on in this film, but that is why I love this movie more than the other Nightmares and more than I do most horror films because it does not cater to stupid people who are not fans of horror. you really can't get much enjoyment out of this movie unless your a fan of the series and have done background checks on things behind the scenes in this series as this film comments on all that. It is not a date movie unless your a heavy fan of the series. I believe that is why many people do not like this movie. There just too ignorant to go back and see what took place before and understand the comments that this movie has to make about the series as a whole. I also believe that is why critics love this movie even though I hate critics, it is because for the last decade they had been put through the whole saga and did not like it, but when this fresh thing came along they were blown away and saw it for what it is. That's about the only way this film could mean anything to those horror bas hers. I also do know that some people will read this and say but Nightmare 7 does not make any reference to the past and it's like H-2-0 that way. Not true, H-2-O was made to make stupid people who had not followed the series from the 70's feel good about themselves and degrade the fans, thus it's wide appeal and the fact that now we are completely inundated with crap for horror movies these days, minus Saw and Eli Roth with Rob Zombie. New Nightmare however was done as a favor to the fans to show that New LIne cares and knows that Freddy is there bread and butter. That is why this film has only a limited appeal and the reason that this movie almost did not turn a profit.
With that all said I will go into why this movie rules, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Wes Craven, and the immortal Robert Englund are the reason this movie is the best it can be. Had a single one of them not returned this movie may have turned to crap, put with them back together again and in good form, especially since Englund had had a couple of years away from the character, thank god, they were able to pull off the best retrospective comeback ever, even better than the long gestated Freddy vs Jason ten years later. Watch this movie and marvel at it's beauty.
