Wes Craven's New Nightmare

Veteran horror director Wes Craven was responsible for the hit 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street, which introduced the character of Freddy Krueger. After Craven sold the rights to his character, Krueger became filmdom's top grossing monster, with five sequels by 1991. In this post-modernist horror ...more

Perhaps the most effectively frightening entry in the Nightmare on Elm Street series, with the noted exception of the original, Wes Craven's postmodern New Nightmare re-imagines the child-murdering Freddy Krueger as the pure embodiment of ancient evil instead of the wisecracking menace that audiences had come to expect at this point. In this respect, Craven's bid to reclaim Krueger as a truly inspired villain pays off, providing the character with a fresh sense of unpredictability that had ...more