Product: New Nightmare [VHS] (1994)
Rating: 1.0
The basic premise behind this movie leaves a bad taste...
Wes Craven's "New Nightmare" is a real disappointment. First and foremost, this movie is based on the premise that all of the other "Nightmare on Elm Street" movies were just that, a movie and that's all, so it has nothing to do with any of the previous movies.Second, the idea that a movie character is coming to life from some ancient evil is ridiculous. Okay, I admit, Freddy is ridiculous to begin with, but a movie character becoming real just because it wants to?? And this so called movie character named Freddy decides to come after the actors and director from the original flick, e.g. Heather Langenkamp, Wes Craven and Robert Englund. I think this movie stinks based on the abovementioned factors, but many people like it.Nevertheless, I can not get over the fact that the legitimacy of this movie demands that the audience accept the fact that the prior "Nightmare on Elm Street" movies were just that, movies, and that Freddy's legacy is basically some big joke. Some of the kills are pretty good, but the movie is spoiled because of the premise it bases itself on and it is obvious why Wes Craven decided to do this flick.Clearly, the motivation behind this film was the recent failures of the latter sequels to the "Nightmare on Elm Street" sequels. Indeed, Hollywood went too far with the Freddy sequels and they wanted to get back to an original and almost realistic type of horror to some extent, but in doing so, they basically wipe out the existence of Freddy's past and that creates an unsatisfied feeling in the audience and destroys any remaining credibility that Freddy Krueger had as villain to begin with.