Product: New Nightmare [VHS] (1994)
Rating: 1.0
"Wes Cravens New Nightmare" is more like "Wes Craven's Real Nightmare," because that is what it is like to watch it.
Watching Wes Craven's New Nightmare is more like living a real nightmare. I cannot believe he was ever serious about making this atrocious movie.This is the plot; A demon force takes on many forms, but it is around the sets of the Nightmare On Elm Street series and thus takes on "a form" of Freddy. it haunts and trys to kill Heather Lankenkamp (actress who played Nancy) and other involved parties.So it doesn't sound that bad. it is. The movie is very, very slow, and mostly involves the "real world" approach of pointless scenes involving earthquakes, and trying to figure out the movie's non-existent storyline.Not to mention how awful Freddy looks. His glove looks like it is made out of plastic bones, and Freddy himself looks like he suffered a bad sunburn and appears very plastic, nothing like the "terribly burned" man of the previous films.The acting is also pretty bad, not from Heather Lankenkamp (who is one of the highlights of the series besides Robert Englund as Freddy himself), but the kid who plays her son particulary. He does nothing but scream at random, and his acting is cringe-worthy.When the movie finally get's started (if you are still awake), one might espect something interesting, because what they are really facing is some sort of demon creature. Eventually he takes Heather's son. Freddy proceeds to hold him over upcoming traffic in one of the fakest looking effects, and this movie was made in the early 90's, 9 years after the original.Eventually Heather must enter the dream world to save him. First we have a creepy looking Freddy fountain, and fire around. It becomes intruiging for about five seconds, to when Heather sticks a knife in the demon's leg, and he suddenly screams and seems incapacitated for a few minutes. Really? Some demon this thing is. He proceeds to chase them around, and finds the kid in a room he cannot reach in. He begins to stretch his hand in a really bad effect that may remind one of the "Where's Waldo?" comics. And if this isn't bad enough, he then opens his mouth in another terrible effect. Needless to say, this movie's effects cannot even help, which is ridicoulous considering of the creativity and excitment of previous effects in the other Nightmare films.It ends with some random script being finished, with a note from Craven thanking her for playing Nancy again. Really? Words cannot express just how terrible New Nightmare is. It has to be one of the stupidest horror movies of all time. No wonder it was the lowest grossing, because it was the worst.Note: 2 wasn't very good either, but it had some redeeming pars. This movie had nothing. Leave this out of your collection, you are not missing anything. Freddy died in Freddy's Dead, and returned from hell in Freddy vs. Jason. New Nightmare does not exist in that world, and should not exist in the real world either.