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Wes Craven's New Nightmare

Wes Craven's New Nightmare (AKA A Nightmare on Elm Street 7)

1994

Wes Craven

Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Miko Hughes, John Saxon ...

4.8

4,270

Horror. Fantasy Actress Heather Lagenkamp, star of the first ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ film, is approached by New Line Cinema about the possibility of starring in a new ‘Elm Street’ sequel. She wavers in her decision. At the same time, she becomes increasingly worried about her son Dylan who has dreams of Freddy Krueger. Her husband is then killed in the same way that she dreamt about beforehand. ‘Elm Street’ creator Wes Craven tells her that the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"It's witty, smart, funny, entertaining, and you'll still like yourself in the morning for watching it."	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"[Craven] has brought back a sense of genuine horror to the series, in part by taking it to completely new ground, and in part by giving his actors a legitimate script to work with (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Joe Leydon Variety	"Englund once again is in bravura form as Freddy, playing as much for nasty laughs as unnerving shocks.	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"[It] progressively gets duller and duller as its mechanical horror fancies spin themselves out"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"I haven't been exactly a fan of the "Nightmare" series, but I found this movie, with its unsettling questions about the effect of horror on those who create it, strangely intriguing.(…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Richard Harrington The Washington Post	"The new film recaptures the dark soul of the original through a clever conceit."	POS
United States	Kenji Fujishima AV Club	"[It] shows off a cerebral edge that lends a tantalizing meta textual layer to the horrors."	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"[It] lacks the trancelike dread of the original Nightmare, and it features almost none of the ingeniously demented special effects that made the series’ third installment (...) a hallucinatory exercise in MTV horror"	NEG
United States	John Squires Bloody Disgusting	"A timeless piece of work that made Freddy Krueger scary again and reminded the world that Craven was a true master of horror."	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"[It] fails to match the power of the first film's true ending, but in deconstructing his own bastardised creation, Craven redeems both the series and his own tarnished reputation."	POS
United States	David Nusair Reel Film	"A solid (yet undeniably uneven) horror effort that closes the book on the Freddy Krueger saga in better-than-expected style.(…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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