Product: New Nightmare [VHS] (1994)
Rating: 5.0
Better than the other 6 movies!
This is actually much better than the other 6 movies, maybe because they have a too-much-wisecracking Krueger and basically no plot to 'em at all, but at times they seem very, very fuzzy."New Nightmare" gives a new meaning to "life imitating art," when Heather Langenkamp (playing herself) is working on the set of the 7th Elm Street movie, when she encounters earthquakes and members of the crew are having nightmares. When her toddler son seems possessed at times and is shouting Freddy Krueger threats in his sleep, she decides to investigate, leading to a true scare fest (also gory) and a sort of enigmatic ending, uncertain that Freddy is gone.Perfectly executed, this film is far better and scarier than the rather trivial and stupid installments, and is almost as scary as "An American Werewolf In London."Rated R for terror violence and gore, and for language.