Dec 12, 2022
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)
"Wes. Wes! How can we stop him?"
"I think the only way to stop him is to make another movie."
#Wes Craven's New Nightmare#Freddython#A Nightmare on Elm Street 7#slasher film#Horror imagery#Wes Craven#Heather Langenkamp#Miko Hughes#David Newsom#Tracy Middendorf#Robert Englund#Sam Rubin#Marianne Maddalena#Tuesday Knight#John Saxon#Fran Bennett#Tamara Mark#Tina Vail#J. Peter Robinson#belatedly finishing up my freddython so i can get started on the Jasoniad (and presumably be very disappointed by their eventual melding in#freddy vs jason). not sure why i put this off for so long actuallyâ bc it's kind of everything i was looking for in a later Elm Street#sequel (and everything the previous couple of films weren't): an original ideaâ a new take on the mythos. a year or so before Screamâ Wes#dips his toe in meta narrative by making a film about making a new Freddy film; cue lots of fun appearances by actors playing themselves#including Langenkamp giving quite possibly her best performance in the series. this is much more than knowing winks tho; it also goes back#to basicsâ keeping Freddy largely offscreen until the final showdownâ building up tension through a series of unsettling fake outs and#misdirections. Englund has a lot of fun playing Englundâ and I actually like the redesigned Freddy (tho it appears to be a source of#controversy in many of the reviews i read on letterboxd). a very fun and fitting way to end the series (kind of) (obviously he came back)#and oh what i wouldn't give to be beautiful widow Langenkampâ comforted by the strong arms of John Saxon
