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Wes Craven's New Nightmare [DVD] [1995]

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  • Actors: Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Jeff Davis, Miko Hughes, Matt Winston
  • Directors: Wes Craven
  • Writers: Wes Craven
  • Producers: Wes Craven, Marianne Maddalena, Jay Roewe, Jeffrey Fenner, Robert Shaye
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Vci
  • DVD Release Date: 10 Sept. 2001
  • Run Time: 108 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004WIA3
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 15,133 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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A coda to the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' series that, written and directed by the creator Wes Craven, mixes fact and fiction to scare us witless. Craven and his producer play themselves, persuading the now grown up Heather Langenkamp (of the first film) to return to Elm Street one more time. She and Robert Englund are lured back to play their characters again, but this time they cannot walk away from them when they leave the film set at the end of the day.

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Halfway through A New Nightmare Heather Langenkamp goes to visit Wes Craven to discuss resurrecting the Freddy Krueger series for one last film. Craven's script focuses on a malevolent demon that has escaped from the stories in which he was trapped because they have lost their power to scare. Sound familiar? This script-within-a-film refers, of course, to the real-life fate of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, and is an idea typical of this intelligent movie which successfully blurs the line between this horror film and its real-life production context. Langenkamp plays herself, in virtually her own life: a D-list actress unable to match the success she found in the original Nightmare on Elm Street films. She, like the rest of the cast and crew of the original films (also played by themselves--most notably Craven and Robert Englund, camping himself up as an adored celebrity and part-time "artist"), is haunted by dreams of the Freddy Krueger character. Craven's script reveals that if Freddy is not trapped within a story more powerful than the Elm Street sequels--i.e. this film--he will become real.

New Nightmare is an interesting precursor to the Scream series, and it attempts to capitalise on its self-reflexivity in a similar way. The idea is that, having openly revealed that the rest of the Elm Street series were "only films", New Nightmare can then set about scaring your pants off. The biggest hindrance, however, is the Freddy character himself. Despite the fact that we are told that this is the "real" Freddy, rather than the cinematic incarnation we've seen many times before it is still difficult to shake off a persistent sensation of déja-vu. Freddy just isn't scary any more: his face looks a lot less gnarled than it used to be and even the once-terrifying claw seems to have lost its edge. Similarly, having hammered home the fact that this movie is real, those elements of the film which require a little more imagination--such as Freddy's body-stretching, the surreal scare sequences and the Gothic-fantasy finale--appear absurd. Thus, if certainly not as good as the original, New Nightmare is at least an intelligent, fresh and occasionally scary film: which makes it head and shoulders above most of its genre and certainly better than most of this series. --Paul Philpott

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By EA Solinas HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER on 29 April 2016
Format: DVD
Like most 1970s/1980s horror franchises, the Nightmare on Elm Street series was run into the ground by increasingly comical, inferior sequels that slowly robbed Freddy Krueger of his menace.

It took the return of the original movie's creator, Wes Craven, to restore that sense of creeping nightmarish horror to the character and the franchise. However, "Wes Craven's New Nightmare" isn't just the best sequel of the franchise -- its a haunting metafictional experiment that blurs the lines between reality and fantasy, scaring the pants off you even as it curls clever artistic flourishes around its own story. It might as well be subtitled, "Wes Craven's Creativity On Itself."

The story takes place in a fictionalized version of the real world, where the Krueger films have been a hit franchise for many years, and follows actress Heather Langenkamp, who played Nancy in the original "Nightmare on Elm Street." She's now a grown woman living in Los Angeles, with a husband and a child named Dylan (Miko Hughes), and is being approached by New Line Cinema to reprise her role as Nancy in a new Nightmare film. All seems well in her life.

... except she's being haunted by nightmares and phone calls about Freddy Krueger, and soon finds that actor Robert Englund (playing himself) and director Wes Craven (playing himself) are also seemingly being haunted by the fictional character. But what really upsets Nancy is that Dylan is now exhibiting bizarre behavior, speaking in odd voices and claiming that his stuffed dinosaur is protecting him from an evil force. Slowly she begins to believe that Freddy is coming to possess her son -- not a wisecracking fictional slasher, but a terrifying primordial force of fear.
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Wes Craven's New Nightmare was a real marmite film for Elm Street devotees back in the day when it was released. When news filtered through that the original creator and director of the first classic A Nightmare on Elm Street was on board for the first time in 6 sequels there was a lot of excitement. But there would be no continuation of Alice's adventures from Part 5: The Dream Child and no continuation of the 6th movie, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. What Craven did next, threw everyone.

New Nightmare has the real actors from some of the previous movies appear as themselves. First up we have Heather Langenkamp who of course played Elm Street's first heroine as Nancy. Her father from the movies returns in the form of John Saxon. Craven plays himself, Bob Shaye the producer of the movies is in there, as is his sister Lin Shaye. A quick eye will spot some characters from the older movies (at the funeral scene) and of course the one and only Robert Englund appears too.

What Craven does is turn the whole franchise on its head, but he does it in such a clever way that he never takes or disrespects the franchise. In this movie the real characters are being affected by a real life demon who is using the guise of Freddy Krueger to enter the real world. As Craven writes the script for a new Nightmare movie events take turn in real life.

There are many great references to the original movie, but Craven's biggest success is that he makes the character of Freddy terrifying once again. There are no jokes here and the movie is a dark one. This is a triumph given how Freddy had become quite a jokey character in the previous films.
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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 realises that Freddy has now entered the real world, and the only way to defeat him is to become Nancy Thompson once again....

An excellent premise and story, was largely ignored on initial release, thanks to the ever decreasing quality of the sequels to the original.

This isn't really a sequel to the Nightmare series, it really is a stand alone film, and it it seems that this was a starting point for Cravens excellent 'Scream' movie.

It's surprisingly not very scary, but can be very tense at times, and the most disturbing thing about this film is Miko Hughes' character and the obvious connotations to him, Freddy, and the origins of his character (he abused young children after all).

The novelty of actors playing themselves was quite a novelty 20 years ago, with Last action Hero, only really being a big profile film to feature actors playing themselves (yes there are others, but none so prolific as a summer blockbuster, and a very famous horror franchise).

All the actors 'play' themselves really well, which must have been hard to an extent.

The ending is a little disappointing, but it resurrects Freddy into a an evil entity once more, rather than the comic book anti-hero he became in the turgid sequels.
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