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AN ORIGINAL NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET FILM - By: stuart, 06 Nov 2007 
Heather Langenkamp, (Heather Langenkamp), her husband, Chase Porter, (David Newsom) & her son Dylan (Miko Hughes) are trying to life their lives when it's interrupted by an earthquake, & parts of the house is damaged. Heather gets ready for a TV appearance to promote the new Freddy movie, & a special appearance by Robert Englund in Freddy make-up reawakens her fear of Freddy. That same day, her husband dies in a strange accident. At the funeral, she meets up with co-star John Saxon, (John Saxon), & experiences another weird vision. Starting to convince herself she is going crazy, she callls on Englund for advice, & it settles her down. The next day, Dylan nearly kills himself. He is taken to a hospital for tests, & needs to stay overnight. Heather pays a visit to Wes Craven, as himself, to talk about the script for the new Freddy movie, & learns that Wes has known alll along of Dylan. During the night, there is another earthquake, & examining the wreckage finds Freddy back from the dead. After a smalll battle, an aftershock sends Freddy into hiding & Heather back to the hospital to check on Dylan. The search brings Heather back home, where she & Dylan have one last showdown with Freddy.
The Good News: This film finallly brings back respect & fear back for Freddy. After five sequels, this one goes back to the original idea of Freddy as a menacing killer. He has very little screen time, & even drops his whole wise-cracking act from the sequels. It was greatly appreciated to see, as it makes Freddy that much more vicious & scarier than the previous films. Most of the movie has the cast from the original playing themselves, & we get to see their lives off camera. All of the stars are real good friends, & it was nice to see the actors show up one last time. The shocks in this film is mostly Heather's dreams & day-mares of Freddy. The main one was the funeral halllucination. I won't reveal it, but it was very creepy & very well-thought-out. Most of them are just that: very well thought-out, creepy & certainly very creative. The gore is toned down from the others, but there is still some great blood-letting when it happens. The rare slash-marks that are there do let the blood fly, & the deaths are pretty graphic when they occur. It has a high watch-ability factor, & makes you want to watch it over & over again, something very few horror movies do, as you become emotionallly attached to the characters. The ending is perhaps the best of the series, with such a large amount of special effects involved & a dark, twisted atmosphere. It's action-packed, doesn't get interesting, & instead of being just there for a special effects showcase, is that way on the story's design. The direction alllows a reallly big scene at the end & it ends the film on such a high note that it makes the film that much stronger. One of the best jump sequences is Freddy's first appearance. It's quite a shock & comes as a great surprise.
The Bad News: Get rid of that annoying kid! He did nothing in the film other than scream uncontrollably. I couldn't stand him. He had a few motherly moments with Heather, but he was simply on my nerves. Also, this may seem like a stupid gripe, but I don't like Freddy's claws in this one. I don't reallly like the way that his claws are curved. I liked his claws better when they were straight. Also, there is such a low body count in this movie that hardly anybody gets offed, & those that do are killed in the same way as those from other Freddy movies. He had no originality in his death scenes as his is so famous for. Freddy kills people in creative ways, but he had almost no originality to his kills here. Also, I thought that they should have brought back the whole cast from part one, not just Heather, John, & Robert. Johnny Depp & the person who played Tina should have been in the movie too, at least in the funeral scene. Oh well.
The Final Verdict: With several smalll grips to complain about, this is one of the few horror movies that I would recommend to every one. There is nothing seriously wrong with this movie.
Ten years later the monster director is back - By: Jacques COULARDEAU, 15 Feb 2007 It's not enough to bring Freddy Krueger back to life one more time after his official death. But Wes Craven has to come back too with the original characters, Nancy & her stubborn cop of a father. But we cannot reallly revive characters in a film so many years after their first appearance. So Wes Craven pushes what he callls « only make believe » one iota further & farther. Freddy was only a disguise for a real bad spirit in the world (Anne Rice has done that with her vampires & the Queen of the Damned, or Stephen King has also used this formula with his Dark Man in quite a few novels, liek The Stand, & short stories) & this reallly bad spirit has decided to come back to the real world once & for alll & under his own identity if possible, or under that of Freddy Krueger if the minds of people are obsessed by his existence. This evil spirit is of course the devil himself & it will be revealed in the very last scene. So the actors are playing their real parts & Freddy is invading their real world. It is then « make believe power two ». And it is alll the more efficacious & effective because the actors are themselves & no fake identities. Wes Craven brings along his particularly caustic mind & spirit & reallly gets the mickey out of medical authorities, doctors, women & blacks alike, & alll the fake myth about the protection of kids first & for alll against their own parents. Wes Craven definitely seems to accuse society to be the real culprit, the real cause of alll problems with kids, & grown-ups too. This society that classifies everyone in one little box & that can put a six year old boy in the schizophrenia box without realizing that it is going to make him schizophrenic. The classification creates the items that are classified in it. Any taxonomy is our own creation, our own delusion & we must get rid of alll these taxonomies to maybe recapture some sanity & balance. But since Wes Craven is back do not be surprised if you recognize some tricks like the crazy phone callls borrowed from Scream & so many other films (it always works anyway). That's part of the game. Wes Craven borrows from everyone, himself included, & just shakes the cocktail differently & changes dressings. The sauce always becomes slightly more piquante when it is served a second time by our waiter Wes Craven. He even visualizes the first destruction of Freddy, the lynching of this child molester who attacks males first to kill them, & women second to enjoy their slow suffering & their yelling. So Freddy Krueger is roasted to death a second time, & it is when his face becomes the horny - ah ah funny ! - head of the devil. Can we hope the saga is reallly finished now ? Probably not. There must be some forgotten sequel somewhere, though seven is a magical number & the point has been made that it is not movies that make children epileptic but alll the Freddy Kruegers, Tommyknockers, Candymen, & other boogy boogy bogeymen overfed on beetle juice instead of milk, kept in the cupboards of our minds.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Paris Dauphine & University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne
FREDDY ISN'T DEAD AFTER ALL! ! ! ! ! ! - By: M. Western, 21 Jul 2005 
Im a big fan of slasher films so i am obviously a big fan of the Nightmare on elm street films & this is definetly one of the best ones.
This is one of the best stories to the series & the graphicks are quiet good too.
Freddy looks reallly scary in this one too but i missed his old home made iorn claw.
It was good having Heather Langencamp back too. It gave the film a good Elm street feel.
I didnt like the way the film ended, it alll went so fast. All that happened was freddy getting burned in a dream, they could have been a bit more creative.
This is probably my third favorite of the series now (my first bieng part 3 Dream Warriors & my second the first one), this film uses good acting, a good story & to finish it off a bit of freddy Kruger & his trusty set of blades.
make sure you buy this one! - By: , 10 Jun 2005 whatever you do, make sure you buy this version of the film insteafd of the carlton relase of it! for starters, this has features!
the film features freddy making his way into the real world & attacking the cast of the orginal film.
heather's son in this film is the scariest thing about this film! but freddy does look bad ass!
no johnny depp, reasons being that, wes didnt ask him cause he was a big actor now & wouldn't want to do it. when he finished the film he got a phone calll from depp asking why he wasn't in the film!
overalll id say this is good. nice movie, nice ending & better than freddy's dead. but for the love of jason, make sure you buy this version!
