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This was pretty badass. I loved how they put the movie together. It was very original compared to all the other ones. Good ending to the franchise.
Posted By: Protecious at 11:03pm, September 30, 2008
genius idea that was a fun watch and great to see freddy actually scary as hell and mean again and not cracking jokes like he's doing stand up in front of an audience, i liked the story alot and felt it is the best freddy movie along with the original.
Finally we get the old Freddy back even though a whole different film. This is still creepy, had great scares and finally a great sequel. I really liked the plot, gore was great whole story was awesome a whole different Freddy Kruger but he's finally as scary as he one was. This was an awesome film and a great sequel.
Wes Craven is back with the franchise he created with New Nightmare. After ten years and four undoubtedly horrible sequels, Robert Shaye gives Craven full command of this next installment.
The plot's very original, that being the setting is in real life, meaning the Freddy we all know and love is a fictional character in a film franchise, or so we think. I was really engaged in the direction that Wes took this film. By giving New Nightmare this original path, Freddy is reborn into the dark sinister monster from the original elm street film.
The cast does a great job, highlighting Heather Lagenkamp who carries this film from start to finish. Child actor Miko Hughes puts on one of the best child performances in recent years. He's disturbing, and also lovable in other scenes.
The dream sequences, mostly using Miko Hughes and, of course Robert Englund are really top notch. I was pleased that Wes decided to give the audience only spurts of Krueger terror, up until the satisfying conclusion. He builds the viewers suspense and anticipation for that inevitable classic Freddy nightmare.
On the whole, New Nightmare delivers an excellent horror film with a new and original direction from Wes Craven. As a Freddy Kreuger fan, watch the first film, then watch this one. It's great if you use it as a companion piece because Craven references back to his original film a lot with New Nightmare.
Very different from all other Nightmare movies. Wes Craven has a very vigorous imagination, which brings all of his great films to life. I loved the creative idea of this film. This is one my favorite Nightmare films. I also loved the theme from this one.
I think at the time this film wanted to be what The Blair Witch Project was, a film that broke the camera barrier and breached reality for the viewer. At the time it did a decent job for avid horror fans familiar with all the players, but it it doesn't really stand up over time in that regard.
This movie was creepy and i still have this marque in my garage. It is a different take on the nightmare series. Not one that really goes anywhere. The idea is good but comeone we live in a fake world here not a real one where the nightmare is real and trying to come into our world. This movie is not exactly a nightmare movie is still very good and effective. I don't love it but i still like it.
Wes Craven returns to the series he birthed upon the world to get all gimmicky on our asses.
Um, so after Freddy Krueger was destroyed in 3-D, New Line Cinema decided it was time to revisit the dead franchise with what I'm sure they all thought was a "brilliant" take on the 'Nightmare' mythos.
I can see the pitch now:
Wes: I want to make a New Nightmare film, and in fact, I'll call it MY New Nightmare... because people give a shit about me.
Robert Shaye: I don't know Wesley, the last two floaters didn't turn a huge profit. Who are the stars?
Wes: You and me.
Robert Shaye: Done.
This is a film about what's behind the curtain. Actors play themselves here (Lagenkamp, Englund, Craven, Shaye, Saxon), and they all reference the Nightmare series as if they were nothing but what they really are... movies. The problem here is I don't want a movie that talks about the Nightmare movies, I want a fucking Nightmare movie! In 'New Nightmare' Wes Craven begins to write a script for a new Elm Street film where everything on the page begins to happen in real life! Holy fuck! Seems like Craven is jacking himself off as some cinematic poriah who's shitty screenplays are so powerful they invoke DEMONS of the characters to manifest and pick people off with a rubber skull glove-hand-thing.
Freddy returns, but it isn't the Freddy 'Wise-Crackin' Krueger we all came to know and want to kill... it's the "spirit" of the evilness of the Freddy character (wtf?). This is visually conveyed by Freddy with a brighter striped shirt and leather pants. The metrosexual Freddy Krueger spirit-guy. I dig some of the look, but as a whole I think this Freddy looks, well... gay.
Heather Lagenkamp returns as Nancy Thompson(but not Nancy Thompson), and I have to admit it's nice to have her back, even if she's playing herself. Funny, herself seems a lot like Nancy. The spirit of Wes Craven's screenplay starts to try and possess Lagenkamp's son (the creepy critter who played 'Gage' in 'Pet Sematary'). Some of the scenarios are creepy, but most of the acting from the awkward tike just make me laugh.
'New Nightmare' gets a little respect for trying to put a new spin on an old franchise, but it doesn't earn any appreciation for it. The climax of the film is horribly uncreative and unintentionally hilarious. I believe I would be writing a kinder review if the film hadn't so magnanimously shit the bed in the end.
