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Wes Craven's New Nightmare

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Reality and fantasy meet in unsettling ways in this installment of the long-running horror series, which finds director Wes Craven and actors Heather Langenkamp and Robert Englund all portraying themselves. As Heather (Heather Langenkamp) considers making another film with Craven, her son, Dylan (Miko Hughes), falls under the spell of the iconic disfigured villain Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund). Eventually, Langenkamp must confront Freddy's demonic spirit to save the soul of Dylan.
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Wes Craven's New Nightmare adds an unexpectedly satisfying - not to mention intelligent - meta layer to a horror franchise that had long since lost its way.

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Rated: C- Sep 7, 2011 Full Review Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader This one's defeated by the rigid formula. Apr 5, 2010 Full Review Joe Leydon Variety Englund once again is in bravura form as Freddy, playing as much for nasty laughs as unnerving shocks. Mar 26, 2009 Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy It’s a cool idea as far as it goes, which is to say, it doesn’t go far at all. Rated: 1.5/4 Oct 20, 2024 Full Review Joe Lipsett Horror Queers Podcast Quintessential Wes Craven: smart, creative, meta and featuring a number of dazzling horror set pieces. Langenkamp shines, particularly in the hospital scenes. Rated: 4.5/5 Oct 15, 2024 Full Review Cody Leach Cody Leach (YouTube) Wes Craven brings the most unique and artistic installment for his return. The pre-Scream meta storytelling is fresh and fun for fans of the franchise and Freddy is actually scary again. I do find myself missing the imaginative carnage along the way. Rated: 3.75/5 Aug 20, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Rick W Grew up watching this movie and I always wanted to see it on a big screen and am eternally grateful to the Alamo Drafthouse for screening it this October. Quality was outstanding and the quality served to immerse me so sufficiently that it took me back to being a kid. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/30/24 Full Review Diane Loved every moment of it!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/17/24 Full Review JACK B New Nightmare finally gets the Elm Street franchise back on track with a great script and brilliant writing from Wes Craven. Heather Langenkamp gives her best performance in the franchise, and all the other characters are very enjoyable and well-acted. The creative kills take a back seat, and while this isn't officially Freddy Krueger, Robert Englund brings terror to the demonic entity in the film. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/10/24 Full Review Omar G Wes craven's New Nightmare (1994). 9/10 The second best movie in the Nightmare franchise. Freddy comes out of movies to kill in real life. The hottest girls in the movie Heather Langenkamp, ​​Tracy Middendorf, Tuesday Knight in cameo. Dr. Christine Heffner was like Dr. Simms from Dream Warriors in the original script by Craven and Wagner from Dream Warriors Dr. Simms was killed. The best death in the movie was Julie recreating Tina Gray's death. From the first movie Nancy Thompson was seen as crazy, Craven says he watched the movies in the franchise and to me from A Nightmare on Elm Street 5 he took elements like Alice Johnson seemed like a crazy and stupid, displaying her madness in a ridiculous way in front of everyone mainly in the hospital. Same thing about Heather and Dylan. I think the Demon Freddy wanted to be the replacement for Chase Porter as Heather's man and be the surrogate father. Since he could kill Heather/Nancy Thompson whenever he wanted but he kidnapped her son so she would come to his house. Wes Craven took and improved elements from A Nightmare on Elm Street 5 The Dream Child (1989) such as Dan's death in the truck after falling asleep, leaving the protagonist without the father of her son Jacob Johnson, for The New Nightmare (1994) where Chase Porter dies in a truck after falling asleep and leaving Heather without the father of her son Dylan Porter. I think Wes Craven identified himself in interviews saying that his father died when he was five years old, Freddy Krueger and Horance Pinker represented his alcoholic, violent and abusive father who mistreated his mother to Craven. Heather Langenkamp was the representation of his mother, Dylan was Craven as a child reminding him of the violence of his dysfunctional family. Donald Thompson was poorly written in Dream Warriors by Frank Darabont, was better written in Craven and Wagner's Dream Warriors script, and was vindicated in Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994). Rated 4 out of 5 stars 11/08/24 Full Review TROY S The original 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' is still to me one of the scariest and best horror films there is, as well as a truly great film in its own right and introduced us to one of the genre's most iconic villains in Freddy Krueger. It is always difficult to do a sequel that lives up to a film as good as 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' let alone one to be on the same level. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/04/24 Full Review Audience Member Esse filme traz de volta a essência de A Hora do Pesadelo, já que foi dirigido por seu pai Wes Craven. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/25/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Reality and fantasy meet in unsettling ways in this installment of the long-running horror series, which finds director Wes Craven and actors Heather Langenkamp and Robert Englund all portraying themselves. As Heather (Heather Langenkamp) considers making another film with Craven, her son, Dylan (Miko Hughes), falls under the spell of the iconic disfigured villain Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund). Eventually, Langenkamp must confront Freddy's demonic spirit to save the soul of Dylan.
Director
Wes Craven
Producer
Marianne Maddalena
Screenwriter
Wes Craven
Distributor
New Line Cinema, Roadshow Home Video [au]
Production Co
New Line Cinema
Rating
R
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 14, 1994, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 1, 2008
Box Office (Gross USA)
$18.1M
Runtime
1h 52m
Sound Mix
Surround, Stereo, DTS
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