Review – Wes Craven’s New Nightmare

It’s hard to call this the final installment in the Nightmare on Elm Street saga, since in many ways it stands apart from the rest of the pack. For openers, Freddy Krueger seems to have lost his taste for teenagers. Instead, he’s trying to escape from the silver screen by tormenting Heather Langencamp (played by Heather Langencamp) and her pre-teen son. The end result is a reflexive romp through the demented imagination of Wes Craven. In a way this film provided good closure for the series and me, inasmuch as I was part of the teenage target audience when the first one came out and now I’m part of the older audience they appear to have had in mind for this final foray into Freddiedom. Even our villain looks different, abandoning the cartoonish look of the last couple of sequels in favor of the more genuinely eerie aura of the first two Kruegerflicks. Mildly amusing