I'm a huge Wes Craven fan, so I was expecting to like this, but I didn't expect it to unsettle me as much as it did. It's silly in the special way Craven movies are, and often very funny. Lots of the special effects look weird and dated (though they do look more 2002 than 1994, so congrats I guess), and for maybe 90 minutes of the 110 minute runtime I thought this felt like the buildup to a buildup, the first ten minutes of a suggestion of fear stretched out a little too long. but when the final climax starts up, I have to tell you, it scared the hell out of me. In the back of my mind…

Another exceptional movie by Wes Craven! Everything about this movie was so great. From the moment it begins with the similar beginning and feel of the first Nightmare film to the last meta moment between the characters looking at the script, this movie hit all the right marks for me. The meta humor landed perfectly for me and all the actors did a fantastic job, I'll give them that. This honestly should've been the movie we got to end the entire franchise now that I'm thinking about it, but this is considered a spin-off and not part of the original Nightmare timeline from what I read online.

The entire film got back its creepy vibe from the first and I…

There really isn’t a review I could write to do justice to the relationship I have to this movie. It came out when I was like 15 years old so it was that time when I was getting physically close to being able to see R rated movies on my own, but I still technically couldn’t unless I got sneaky and oh say, purchased a previously viewed copy from my local video store, but until that happened I was utterly OBSESSED with this movie and everything about it. The poster. The trailer. The marketing. I ate it allllll up and wanted more. I read the novelization over and over just trying to get it all in until I had access…

Heather Langenkamp, ​​die Nancy im ersten und dritten Nightmare-Teil gespielt hat, wird von einem Anrufer terrorisiert, der sich wie Freddy anhört. Als sie dann entdeckt, dass Wes Craven einen neuen Nightmare on Elm Street-Film schreibt, beginnt sie zu begreifen, dass Freddy doch viel realer ist als nur eine Figur aus einem Horrorfilm…

Sollte Wes Craven beabsichtigt haben, Freddy zum Ende hin noch einmal unheimlich zu machen, so ist ihm das mit "New Nightmare" wirklich sehr gut gelungen. Man sucht hier den witzereißenden Teenagerkiller in diesem Teil vergebens. Freddy wurde wieder zu einer dunklen Figur, dunkler als jemals zuvor. Die aufwändigen Kills bzw. Traumsequenzen der anderen Filme wurden größtenteils durch kleinere, grausamere Szenen ersetzt, in denen Freddy Menschen in der Umgebung…

Hooptober 4.0 - 2017 - Film #14

Earlier today I was reading a story about a man whose penis was stolen in 2012. Fei Lin, a 41 year old man from China, was sleeping peacefully when he was rudely awoken by a bunch of men. They shoved a bag over his head, pulled down his pants and then before he knew it they were gone. Taking the bag off his head, he looked down only to be completely shocked that his penis was missing. The thieves had chopped off his dick and had run away with it into the night. The police never found the men who did it, nor did they find his cock.

So, when Freddie's bladed glove…

A lot of times I have a spiral notebook on the coffee table while I'm watching a movie, mainly to write down a quote I find hilarious or the name of a list I have to add the movie to once I find myself on Letterboxd again. I thought I would take the time to let everyone know what I wrote while watching Wes Craven's New Nightmare.

An almost blank page with four possible list additions and the single thought - "crotch grab, SO CGI!"

New Nightmare came out in 1994. This is an awkward time for horror films, a film can either be chock-full of the best practical special FX after a decade of perfection, or riddled with a…

Every kid knows who Freddy is. He's like Santa Claus, or King Kong.
-Heather Langenkamp

Probably my favorite Nightmare on Elm Street sequel as it might be even better written then the original. Wes Craven comes back for the 7th film and manages to recreate the tone and mood from his 1984 original. What I think is so ingenious is that he does this not by ignoring what went wrong with all the previous sequels, but actually using it for his story.

Craven knows that Freddy Krueger killing the Elm Street teens in their sleep has been overdone and it has become to familiar. It needs to be something that our protagonist knows is a threat, but will be unbelievable…

"Screw your pass!" - Heather Langenkamp.

- Elm Street Rankings: boxd.it/1o5RM
- Wes Craven Rankings: boxd.it/1VXGE

Come to this movie for Freddy, stay for the creepy child horror and the beautiful Heather Langenkamp.

In New Nightmare, we find out that the original elm street series was so good that it trapped a demonic entity in Freddy Krueger's essence. Now that the elm street series is over the demon is trying to to enter the real world and torment “Elm Street” heroine Heather Langenkamp and her family. I love this movie.

Sometimes we overuse the term meta and meta can mean a number of different things but this film is META in all of the best ways and I love it.…

Perfect Krueg

“That’s life on the fault line.” Earthquakes are the operative metaphor here, an event beneath the surface that wrecks everything above (like these dreams! etc.), but also formally, two planes whose collision produces – on a geologic and narrative scale – friction and new landscapes, and Craven really explores this new vista: every scene (at least within the first hour) is full of ideas. This collision was the order of the day in the original and now becomes a meta order atop that order: besides the film acting as a reflection of the original, a strictly scaled literal mise en abyme is introduced with Craven’s script. Until a few days ago I never really thought of Craven as…