Wes Cravens New Nightmare Movie Review 1. Every kid knows who Freddy is. Hes like Santa Claus, or King Kong. Line from Wes Cravens New Nightmare. Wes Cravens New Nightmare is a horror film within a horror film. US&size=400x600' alt='Freeway Killer Full Movie' title='Freeway Killer Full Movie' />A Google engineer was fired yesterday after he wrote a memo arguing that women are biologically less suited for software engineering jobs compared to men and that. Critics Consensus A modern update on the tale of Little Red Riding Hood, Freeway is an audacious black comedy with a starmaking performance from the young Reese. The director, who plays himself, explains at one point, The only way to stop Freddy is to make another movie. Freddy, of course, is Freddy Krueger, the most durable of modern horror monsters a hideously scarred man in a felt fedora, who has knives for fingers. He apparently died for once and all in Freddys Dead The Final Nightmare 1. The Nightmare movies had generat ed an evil force which, once liberated by Freddys death, was set free to haunt the nightmares of the people involved in making the movies. Freeway-Killer-2009-Cd-Cover-32775.jpg' alt='Freeway Killer Full Movie' title='Freeway Killer Full Movie' />Advertisement. They would include Craven, who directed the original Nightmare on Elm Street in 1. Heather Langenkamp, who was a teenager in the first movie and is now a young mother Robert Englund, who plays Freddy John Saxon, who appeared in the first and third films and even Robert Shaye, founder and president of New Line Cinema, which has produced the series. Considering that Cravens original nightmare movie was famously inspired by a series of Los Angeles Times articles about people who told relatives of their fears of killer nightmares and then died the next night it would seem as if Craven and his cast are asking for trouble here. Thats part of the fascination, as Wes Cravens New Nightmare dances back and forth across the line separating fantasy from reality. This is the first horror movie that is actually about the question, Dont you people ever think about the effect your movies have on the people who watch them As the movie opens, Langenkamp is happily married to a movie special effects guy David Newsom, and dotes on their young son Dylan Miko Hughes. Then a series of tragedies and alarming omens take place including the real Los Angeles earthquake, which is seamlessly, inserted into the plot. Shes terrified. At the same time, other members of the Nightmare movies have had their sleep haunted by dreams suggesting, well, that the nightmare is not over. Craven, a bearded, scholarly man who was once a humanities professor, is effective in the scenes where he discusses this phenomenon with Langenkamp and others We should never have killed Freddy, he admits, because Freddy was not simply a fictional character played by the normal and friendly Robert Englund, but also a manifestation of ancient demonic forces which, enraged by his death, have returned. Cravens screenplay explores the possibilities of this situation in a way that loops back on itself, as New Lines Shaye and other professionals play themselves. Watch Tomboy Online Iflix more. The answer obviously is to make another movie in order to exorcise the evil for once and all, but meanwhile there are psychiatrists, talk show hosts and others to consider, and questions that stray close to the creepy Would you trust Robert Englund alone with little Dylan The climax of the film is one of those patented descents into the underworld that the Nightmare series has specialized in. The sets and special effects are by some of the same people who worked on The Fugitive, and there are truly amazing sequences, as when the little boy wanders across an eightlane freeway, or when the characters find themselves wandering in Freddys subterranean lair. Serious fans of horror movies relate only in a secondary way to the chills themselves theyre connoisseurs of the genre, the special effects, the makeup, the in jokes. Theyre going to love this movie, which seems to have been made not only for but by Fangoria fans. But it also works for general audiences. I havent been exactly a fan of the Nightmare series, but I found this movie, with its unsettling questions about the effect of horror on those who create it, strangely intriguing.