Wes Craven's New Nightmare
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Directed by	Wes Craven
Produced by	Robert Shaye
Written by	Wes Craven
Starring	Heather Langenkamp Robert Englund Miko Hughes
Music by	J. Peter Robinson
Cinematography	Mark Irwin
Editing by	Patrick Lussier
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release date(s)	October 14th 1994
Running time	114 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Followed by	Freddy vs. Jason
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Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) is the seventh entry in the Nightmare on Elm Street series of slasher films. It was preceded by Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, and followed by Freddy vs. Jason. The film was the first in the series since the original to be written and directed by Wes Craven. It stars Heather Langenkamp, playing both herself as well as reprising her role as Nancy Thompson. Image File history File links Nightmare7. ... Wesley Earl Craven (born August 2, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American film director and writer best known as the creator of many horror films, including the famed Nightmare on Elm Street series featuring the redoubtable Freddy Krueger character. ... Heather Langenkamp (born July 17, 1964) is an American film and television actress. ... Robert Barton Englund (born June 6th, 1949), is an American actor from Glendale, California. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Mark Irwin is a prolific Canadian cinematographer. ... Patrick Lussier is a Horror & Thriller genre writer, editor & director. ... New Line Cinema, founded in 1967, is one of the major American film studios. ... October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in Leap years). ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Freddy vs. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ... Cover art for the first film A Nightmare on Elm Street is a series of horror films that were exceptionally popular in the 1980s. ... The original 1974 Black Christmas is considered the first authentic slasher. ... Freddy vs. ... Wesley Earl Craven (born August 2, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American film director and writer best known as the creator of many horror films, including the famed Nightmare on Elm Street series featuring the redoubtable Freddy Krueger character. ... Heather Langenkamp (born July 17, 1964) is an American film and television actress. ...

Written under the working title of A Nightmare on Elm Street 7: The Ascension, Craven set out to make a deliberately more cerebral film than recent entries to the franchise - which he regarded as cartoonish and not faithful to his original themes. Craven also mentions in the DVD commentary that the basic premise of this film originated when he first signed on to co-write A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, but New Line Cinema rejected it then. New Line Cinema, founded in 1967, is one of the major American film studios. ...

Plot summary

Just as the first Nightmare film opened with the creation of Freddy's infamous glove, New Nightmare opens with the creation of an updated, more sinister and sleeker looking glove. As the maker of the claws appears to chop off his own hand in preparation for attaching the claws to his own wrist, the other people on the set wince, and the director, Wes Craven, encourages the effects specialists to pump more blood. Soon he yells, "Cut! Print that, Gretchen!". Heather Langenkamp with her husband, Chase, and their son, Dylan, are wandering around the set of the new Nightmare on Elm Street movie. Set construction is a process by which a set designer works in collaboration with the director of the production to create the set for a theatrical production. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Wesley Earl Craven (born August 2, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American film director and writer best known as the creator of many horror films, including the famed Nightmare on Elm Street series featuring the redoubtable Freddy Krueger character. ... Look up cut in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Printing is an industrial process for reproducing copies of texts and images, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. ... Heather Langenkamp (born July 17, 1964) is an American film and television actress. ... A Nightmare on Elm Street is an American horror film directed by Wes Craven about several teenagers being terrorized in their nightmares by a mysterious man named Freddy Krueger in the fictional Midwest town of Springwood, Ohio. ...

Presently the claw, which was only a prop a minute ago, comes to life and starts maiming and killing the special effects crew, Dylan disappears into thin air, and, as the claw advances to attack Chase, Heather screams, waking up in her own bed in her own house with Chase, in the middle of an earthquake in Los Angeles. After the earthquake dies down Chase has a couple of scratches, the same as he had received in the dream. This causes Heather to wonder if they were sustained in the earthquake or in the dream. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Special effects (abbreviated SPFX or SFX) are used in the film, television, and entertainment industry to realize scenes that cannot be achieved by live action or normal means. ... An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of stored energy in the Earths crust that creates seismic waves. ... Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: , State California County Los Angeles County Settled 1781 Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type Mayor-Council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ...

Heather reveals she has been receiving harassing phone calls from "some deranged fan" acting like Freddy, but they've stopped for the last couple weeks. When she gets home, her son has an episode during which he warns her in a voice not his own, "Never sleep again!" Worried, Heather asks Chase to come home. Chase falls asleep at the wheel on the way, and dies in a supposed car crash. When Heather goes to identify the body, it seems, to her, that there may have been more to the crash than meets the eye, mainly the claw marks on Chase's chest. Dylan, now also grief stricken, continues acting ever more strangely. When Heather takes him to a hospital, the doctors suspect her of being insane and of abusing him. Stalking (from Middle English stalk: from Old English bestealcian; akin to Old English stelan to steal) is a legal term for repeated harassment or other forms of invasion of a persons privacy in a manner that causes fear to its target. ... Child abuse is the physical, sexual, or emotional maltreatment or neglect of children by parents, guardians, or others. ...

She goes to Wes Craven for help making sense of what's happening. Craven tells her he doesn't know much more than she does - he dreams a scene or two each night and wakes up and writes them down. He goes on to tell her that in the script he's been writing, pure evil can be temporarily defeated if its essence is effectively captured in a work of art that is able to allow evil to express itself. Craven explains that the evil has taken the form of Freddy because it is a familiar one. "Freddy" sees her as the gatekeeper who holds Freddy at bay since Nancy defeated Freddy in the first movie. To Freddy, it is Heather that gave the character of Nancy her strength. Freddy is attacking her at her weakest points, trying to break her down before confronting her. She leaves as confused as when she arrived. Freddy forces her to accept the role he wants her to play. At the same time, he eviscerates the toy dinosaur Dylan believes has been protecting him and abducts the boy. The final showdown between Freddy and the mother-son duo occurs in a steamy and water logged dreamscape ruin, apparently Freddy's home turf. Even so, the two succeed in killing Freddy and escaping back to the real world. There they find the script of the film Craven has been working on waiting for them. Dylan asks his mother to read some of it to him, which she does: "We open on an old wooden bench. There's fire and tools, and a man's grimy hands building what's soon revealed as a gleaming set of claws. And the claws are moving now as if awakening from a long and unwanted sleep..." A Dreamscape is the faux-reality world that exists within a dream. ...

Reception

The film was well-received critically, particularly for a slasher film, but failed to make as big an impression at the box office as any of the previous six films - the United States take was $18 million dollars. Several critics have subsequently said that New Nightmare could be regarded as a prelude to the Scream trilogy^{[citation needed]} - both sets of films deal with the idea of bringing horror movies to "real life." Whilst the Scream films appealed to huge audiences, New Nightmare is talked of as a clever project, personal to Craven. Scream is a 1996 horror film, directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson. ...

Box Office

The film opened in 1,850 theaters making $6.6 million it's opening weekend.

Domestically, the film has grossed $18 million, making it the lowest grossing Nightmare movie.

Trivia

• Wes Craven does not acknowledge Nancy's death in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
• In the end credits, "Freddy Krueger" is listed as playing "Himself".
• DVD commentary mentions that actual footage from the 1994 Northridge earthquake was incorporated into the earthquake sequence at the beginning of the movie.
• Freddy's new "bio claw" is based on the claws seen on the A Nightmare on Elm Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, and A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors posters.
• During the Chase Porter burial scene many former cast members of the franchise unite for the scene. In the audio commentary Wes Craven said he wanted Johnny Depp to join them but was afraid to ask him due to his star success. Later when Depp ran into Craven he said he would have joined the cast if he had been asked.
• This is the second film in the Nightmare series which does not hint that Freddy may be still alive. A few fans thought they saw the original Freddy (not the Freddy from this movie) standing to the right of Nancy and her son as the credits start to roll. This, however, was merely a toy castle which may have looked like Freddy because of the lighting.

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Cast

• Heather Langenkamp - Herself/Nancy Thompson
• Robert Englund - Freddy Krueger/Himself
• Miko Hughes - Dylan Porter
• Wes Craven - Himself
• John Saxon - Himself/Lt. Donald Thompson
• Robert Shaye - Himself
• Sara Risher - Herself
• Marianne Maddalena - Herself
• David Newsom - Chase Porter
• Tracy Middendorf - Julie
• Matt Winston - Charles "Chuck" Wilson
• Bodhi Elfman - TV Studio P.A
• Rob LaBelle - Terrance "Terry" Feinstein
• Sam Rubin - Himself
• Tuesday Knight - Herself (Cameo)
• Fran Bennett - Dr. Christine Heffner
• Jessica Craven - Junior Nurse with Needle
• Jsu Garcia - Himself (as Nick Corri) (Cameo)

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External links

• Wes Craven's New Nightmare at the Internet Movie Database
• Wes Craven's New Nightmare at Rotten Tomatoes
• Wes Craven's New Nightmare at Box Office Mojo
• Wes Craven's New Nightmare at The Nightmare On Elm Street Companion

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