It's nearing the 10th Anniversary of the film 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' and one of the stars, Heather Langenkamp is being scared by a voice on a phone, sounding very similar to the film's villain, Freddy Krueger.
When Heather's husband is killed in a car accident and is discovered with slash marks on him, Heather starts to wonder something. Especially when she discovers that Wes Craven is writing another 'Nightmare' film.
Soon, she realises that Freddy has now entered the real world, and the only way to defeat him is to become Nancy Thompson once again....
An excellent premise and story, was largely ignored on initial release, thanks to the ever decreasing quality of the sequels to the original.
This isn't really a sequel to the Nightmare series, it really is a stand alone film, and it it seems that this was a starting point for Cravens excellent 'Scream' movie.
It's surprisingly not very scary, but can be very tense at times, and the most disturbing thing about this film is Miko Hughes' character and the obvious connotations to him, Freddy, and the origins of his character (he abused young children after all).
The novelty of actors playing themselves was quite a novelty 15 years ago, with Last action Hero, only really being a big profile film to feature actors playing themselves (yes there are others, but none so prolific as a summer blockbuster, and a very famous horror franchise).
All the actors can 'play' themselves really god, which must have been hard to an extent.
The ending is a little disappointing, but it resurrects Freddy into a an evil entity once more, rather than the comic book anti-hero he became in the turgid sequels.
When Heather's husband is killed in a car accident and is discovered with slash marks on him, Heather starts to wonder something. Especially when she discovers that Wes Craven is writing another 'Nightmare' film.
Soon, she realises that Freddy has now entered the real world, and the only way to defeat him is to become Nancy Thompson once again....
An excellent premise and story, was largely ignored on initial release, thanks to the ever decreasing quality of the sequels to the original.
This isn't really a sequel to the Nightmare series, it really is a stand alone film, and it it seems that this was a starting point for Cravens excellent 'Scream' movie.
It's surprisingly not very scary, but can be very tense at times, and the most disturbing thing about this film is Miko Hughes' character and the obvious connotations to him, Freddy, and the origins of his character (he abused young children after all).
The novelty of actors playing themselves was quite a novelty 15 years ago, with Last action Hero, only really being a big profile film to feature actors playing themselves (yes there are others, but none so prolific as a summer blockbuster, and a very famous horror franchise).
All the actors can 'play' themselves really god, which must have been hard to an extent.
The ending is a little disappointing, but it resurrects Freddy into a an evil entity once more, rather than the comic book anti-hero he became in the turgid sequels.