Wes Craven's New Nightmare

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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 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/30/24 Full Review Diane Loved every moment of it!!! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/17/24 Full Review Emil P The best A Nighmare On Elm Street sequel. Best since the first movie. And maybe the scariest movie in this franchise. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/25 Full Review Alexander S Wes Craven establishes a New Nightmare for his suffering franchise, introducing a unique original storyline that ventures beyond the Freddy universe featuring the original cast and crew members playing themselves, though the concept won’t appeal to all Freddy fans, it was Wes Craven’s way of delivering a fitting one-last scare for Freddy and concluding his standalone franchise he created. Grading: B Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/11/25 Full Review Sondra J S Good Movie Better Than All Crap I’ve Been Watching This Movie is Great 9/10 Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/25 Full Review Justin T I’ll start with a warning, I have more to say about films I hate! On the positive side it was good to see Heather Langenkamp return. And the final twenty minutes was entertaining. That’s it, now for what I didn’t like, quickfire. It feels like a bad soap. It’s boring and hard to watch due to the flawed concept, it’s fiction but it’s pretending to be real but we know it’s fiction. They aren’t asleep during the nightmares. It doesn’t make sense most of the time. I could not at any point get over the concept, was this meant to be real life? It really bothered me to the point I didn’t want to watch it anymore. Freddy was Robert. The nightmares were phycological. The imagery was imaginary. The fun was gone. I don’t think I've hated a sequel as much as this since the first time I watched Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) or Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985). Some of the acting is not good, the child and Wes specifically. Sorry, at least he wasn’t as bad as M. Night Shyamalan in Signs (2002). It’s hard to relate to the characters. There are sSo many eye roll moments like ripping off The Exorcist (1973) and Hellraiser (1987). Things that were subtly left for the viewer to notice in the original like the grey hair felt like painful fan service here. Even the lore doesn’t make sense anymore, people that weren’t asleep were dying. Some of the effects were dire like the whole highway clouds disaster and the climax transformation. Freddy’s mask looks very dry again. The final 20 minutes where they final accept that they are making an Elm Street movie actually gets entertaining and this gets it an extra point but not enough to make up for the nearly 90 minutes of rubbish before it. It’s the worst of the Friday the Elm Street marathon I’m running through. Fundamentally it’s well made but conceptually I hated it. Does it achieve the minimum expectation of a film, is it entertaining? No. Not in my opinion. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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