Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

horrorgasm If you don't like the direction the goofier sequels of the franchise took, that's one thing, but that doesn't make this a good movie. The Nightmare on Elm Street series became famous for its incredibly creative nightmare death scenes and great effects for their time. This throws all that out the window and gives us a Freddy that's all bark and no bite. New Nightmare isn't scary, it's not anywhere near as clever as it would like you to think it is, and if you look past all the meta- contextual stuff, all you really have here is another generic slasher movie that features very little actual slashing. Hope you like really annoying child actors too, because this has a huge helping of that. Hard to believe that this was the same kid that did such a great performance in Pet Sematery, because he's just painful to watch here with his constant screeching and whining.

Matt Greene This is Wes Craven giving a playful and weird middle finger to the franchises' treatment of his beloved Freddy Kreuger. Leaving behind the obnoxiously cartoonish tendencies of the sequels, it gets back to the existential fear of the first. The jump in technical quality is astounding; reminds you of what the difference between a mediocre and a great director looks like. But best of all, of course, is the bold meta-story itself, which comments on the haunting effects of fame in such a cool way.

Eric Stevenson This film is notable for being the longest slasher movie ever made. Well, I believe there's a cut of a "Halloween" movie that's longer, but this is the longest I've seen. This ended up being one of the best in the series. I admit it wasn't anything like I thought it would be. The other actors besides Heather Langenkamp don't really have much of a role. It's still a good movie as it manages to be creative. I especially like when they're talking about how Freddy died in the last movie, yet they want to make another one. They did. It's the movie we just saw!This movie doesn't exactly featured Freddy escaping into the real world as it's technically a demon that takes on his persona that appears. Its true form is unknown. Honestly, it probably would have worked just as well if it was the real Freddy that escaped into the real world. The pacing in the film is quite impressive and I really was rooting for a happy ending. It's a nice little meta film and it's actually done pretty realistically. Nice film for the series' ten anniversary celebration. ***

ThiefOfStars In 1984, acclaimed horror director Wes Craven breathed new life into the slasher genre with 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' and then again in the mid-nineties with 'Scream', a cool, edgy (for the time) meta-horror. But before there was 'Scream', Craven had already ventured into meta territory with 'New Nightmare.'The actress who played Nancy, Freddy's adversary from the first and third 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' movies, Heather Langenkamp plays a fictionalised version of herself raising a son, Dylan with her special effects technician husband, Chase.Heather begins to experience nightmares, including one where Chase is attacked and killed on the set of a new 'Nightmare' movie by a Freddy glove come to life. She is also dealing with a real-life stalker who likes to mimic Freddy's mannerisms and struggling to shield Dylan from her work as a horror movie actress.Whilst doing publicity for the tenth anniversary of 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' she learns that there is indeed another movie in the works and Chase has already been working on special effects for it without her knowledge. The production company want her to star in the movie but she is reluctant.However, when Chase is killed in a car accident and his body is found with deep claw marks in his chest and Dylan's behaviour becomes increasingly unstable, including becoming convinced that a man is trying to come up from the foot of the bed while he sleeps to attempting suicide in the playground, Heather turns to her 'Nightmare' co-workers for help and support.From Wes she learns that the script he's writing is eerily similar to the current events in her life, but is real-life inspiring the script or is the script dictating real-life?After 'Freddy's Dead' gave Freddy a damp squib of a send-off, 'New Nightmare' was a welcome entry to the series. And even though the ending is still somewhat anti-climatic and Robert Englund is very underused (there should have been more interaction between him and the 'new' Freddy - what a missed opportunity!) this is still the vastly superior 'final' movie that is both enjoyable and original.