Wes Craven's New Nightmare Reviews

Before director Wes Craven came back big time with Scream, he took a stab at the intellectual horror film, adding this semi-documentary-style sequel to the Nightmare on Elm Street series. The terrorised teenager from the original, Heather Langenkamp, plays herself, an actress troubled by (a real?) Freddy Krueger. In addition to the healthy dose of shocks, there's a look behind the scenes of the horror film, and, although the project occasionally reeks of self-indulgence, you have to admire Craven (who also appears as himself) for trying something new rather than just cashing in on the franchise.

A strange mixture of fantasy and what passes for reality in Hollywood, with Heather Langenkamp playing herself as the star of the first Elm Street film but being given a fictional life as a wife and mother threatened by Freddy. The result is likely to app

"...[Craven] deals in terrifying extensions of everyday experience, the stuff of which true nightmares are made....An ingenious, cathartic exercise in illusion and fear..."

Before director Wes Craven came back big time with Scream, he took a stab at the intellectual horror film, adding this semi-documentary-style sequel to the Nightmare on Elm Street series. The terrorised teenager from the original, Heather Langenkamp, plays herself, an actress troubled by (a real?) Freddy Krueger. In addition to the healthy dose of shocks, there's a look behind the scenes of the horror film, and, although the project occasionally reeks of self-indulgence, you have to admire Craven (who also appears as himself) for trying something new rather than just cashing in on the franchise.

A strange mixture of fantasy and what passes for reality in Hollywood, with Heather Langenkamp playing herself as the star of the first Elm Street film but being given a fictional life as a wife and mother threatened by Freddy. The result is likely to app

"...[Craven] deals in terrifying extensions of everyday experience, the stuff of which true nightmares are made....An ingenious, cathartic exercise in illusion and fear..."

In this post-modern take on the enervated Elm Street series, the director of the original uses a complex... read more on Time Out

"...It's the cleverest, wittiest, most twisted scarefest in ages..."

"...It's compelling -- it challenges you to keep up with it..."