Product: New Nightmare [VHS] (1994)
Rating: 4.0
The only other "Nightmare" film that competes with the first
The original Nightmare On Elm Street and Wes Craven's New Nightmare are really the only two films worth owning in the entire Nightmare series. The first time I saw the original Nightmare on Elm Street I was totally spooked out of my pants. It still spooks me today. And I've always admired its originality and have always kept it on the higher shelf of my DVD collection. It took 10 years for someone to come out and actually make another Freddy movie worth watching. Of course done by none other than the original creator, Wes Craven. Wes Craven's New Nightmare proves to be astoundingly clever, actually quite scary, and is almost better than the original. Just the idea behind this film just totally amazes me. It's the truest statement of "art imitates life, life imitates art." I recognize this style of a "movie within a movie" kind of thing from Scream 2, but this film truely exercises that premise with profound success. It's easy now to look back on Nightmare on Elm Street and think that it's just a movie, but with Wes Craven's New Nightmare, I'm not so sure anymore.