New Nightmare (1994)
6/10
New Nightmare is Good But Not Great
25 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
My Reaction / Review: Nice to see Nancy again, I always liked her character. I really hope this is better than the previous movies. I think Nancy was some kind of psychologist (?) in a previous movie and here she is an actress called Heather? Interesting. Also Freddy is a movie star, lol? That plot is a bit insane. And Freddy killed her husband? That's brutal. But if Robert Englund is a movie star playing Freddy in the movies then who is Freddy? Is it him or someone else? Its a bit confusing. Ok time for my rating for the 1st half of the movie. The movie mostly focuses on Heather and her littler boy. The little boy's behavior is really weird and of course Heather is really worried because he keeps getting worse, to the point that doctors think that the boy suffers from schizophrenia.

While all this is good, the first hour lacks any thrilling moments really, it feels a bit flat, also there is no ''slasher'' in it. My rating for the first half is 6.2/10. Lets see if it gets better or worse. Ok so Freddy is trapped in this NOES movies and now because its the end of this franchise he will escape and come to our world? Sounds like a silly concept really. Ok so it took them 1 hour and 8 minutes to show us Freddy! Better late than never I guess. Wait so only Heather was able to feel the earthquake? Was that a dream? A hallucination maybe? Im almost 100% sure Freddy can't cause earthquakes. The babysitter or whatever she is starts punching nurses in the face because they wanted for the boy to sleep, like wtf, who does that?

Ok things got more chaotic and more disturbing with the doctor pretty much thinking that Heather is insane. While its fun to watch the rules are kind of blurry here. How is Freddy able to hurt the babysitter in REAL life when Dylan is the one dreaming? I get it that Freddy wants to escape the dream world and come to the real world, I just don't understand the process 100%, like what is the limit and set of rules. I really enjoy the fact that Freddy's target is the kid and we have Heather, the mother who is doing everything she can to protect him. My conclusion is that the 2nd half of the movie is better than the 1st but still nothing great. Ratings: 1st half of the movie 6.2/10 and 2nd half 6.8. My final rating is 6.4. While this movie was good, it was not great but its worth watching. Much better than the previous movies. 6.4/10.
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