Freddy's New Nightmare

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Movie
German title Freddy's New Nightmare
Original title Wes Craven's New Nightmare
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1994
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Wes Craven
script Wes Craven
production Robert Shaye
music J. Peter Robinson
camera Mark Irwin
cut Patrick Lussier
occupation
chronology

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Freddy’s Finale - Nightmare on Elm Street 6

Successor  →
Freddy vs. Jason

Freddy's New Nightmare is a 1994 horror film and the seventh installment in the Nightmare series. Wes Craven helped Freddy Krueger make another appearance on the screen despite the announcements before the sixth part .

action

This time, Freddy comes into the reality of the filmmakers. Wes Craven is planning a new Krueger film, again starring Robert Englund . During the shooting, however, things start to go wrong. Meanwhile, Heather Langenkamp , who played Nancy Thompson in parts 1 and 3 of the series, is harassed by phone calls and her little son Dylan is haunted by eerie dreams. "Freddy" actor Robert Englund also has nightmares and therefore leaves Hollywood .

Hollywood celebrities only noticed late that the fantasy figure "Freddy Krueger" they had created is working on becoming reality. However, Heather Langenkamp and her son manage to confront and defeat Freddy in his surreal dream world. The nightmare seems to be over.

reception

criticism

The lexicon of international films criticized the fact that "due to the cumbersome narrative construction [...] tension" hardly arises. In addition, Freddy's New Nightmare lacks "the psychological and aesthetic depth of some earlier films" and thus "also the charm of its predecessors".

Awards

Gross profit

The film grossed around 20 million US dollars worldwide.

Trivia

  • Wes Craven's daughter Jessica Craven has a short supporting role as a nurse .
  • Lin Shaye , who played a teacher in the first part of the series, also takes on a small supporting role as a nurse.
  • Shortly after the actual shooting of the earthquake scene was over, there was a real earthquake, the Northridge earthquake in 1994 . The film crew took advantage of this by going outside and simply filming the destroyed streets and buildings that served as the real backdrop in the finished film.
  • Before filming started, Heather Langenkamp was actually harassed by a stalker who claimed to be Freddy. Langenkamp allowed Craven to incorporate this into the film.
  • In the role of the little boy Dylan, actor Miko Hughes can be seen, who five years earlier, in 1989, in the Stephen King filming Cemetery of the Stuffed Animals, played a terrifying child possessed by evil forces who turned himself against his dead revenant Family judges. In 1998, Miko Hughes starred in the thriller The Mercury Puzzle with Bruce Willis .
  • In the credits at the end of the film, the character Freddy Krueger is listed with the addition of himself , as if it were a real personality belonging to the cast.
  • Contrary to the six previous episodes, the character Freddy Krueger wears a black trench coat in addition to his fedora hat, the green and red striped sweater and the clawed hand in the seventh part .
  • Towards the end of the film, Heather Langenkamp and John Saxon wear the same clothes as in Nightmare , when the two actors suddenly slip back into their old roles as Nancy Thompson and policeman Donald Thompson . At this moment the lines between fiction and reality become blurred.
  • The German version has not been edited, but noises have been deleted from the sound track. It has now been confirmed that it was not a mistake. B. the sound of the bone saw in the morgue almost completely erased.
  • Freddy doesn't kill fewer people in any movie, "only" Heather's husband and her son's babysitter fall directly victim to him. Furthermore, two trick technicians are murdered. Whether this was Freddy is not certain, but it is obvious.
  • This film is the first in the Nightmare series that does not feature children jumping rope.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for Freddy's New Nightmare . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2005 (PDF; test number: 72 553 V / DVD).
  2. Freddy's New Nightmare. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111686/awards?ref_=tt_ql_op_1
  4. Wes Craven's New Nightmare. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .