In a 2010 NOES documentary (Never Sleep Again), Wes Craven tells a story about how they were unable to make the kid cry, take after take. At one point, the father approaches Craven: "If it helps, we have a thing to make him cry, although we don't like to do it too often...". Craven agrees. The mother leaves the room and the father tells the kid: "Miko, your mother is dead." Boom. While the kid is crying, Craven acts quickly: "Camera rolls ! Action!". In the documentary, Craven chuckles with a bit of shame at that point, but Miko acknowledges he was not traumatized by the event because his mother immediately came back with a Happy Meal. He explains: "My mom was alive. I got a free Happy Meal. So I was fine."
Freddy looks different because it's not Freddy. It's a demon who took the shape of the Freddy Krueger's character. Which makes the film even more bizarre.
A lot of the film is based off real life. Wes said the talk show with kids dressed as Freddy is based on an actual experience he had with Robert on a talk show I believe. Heather in real life was also actually harassed by a crazy stalker as well. And the Earthquake (which was already written in the script) actually happened and was one of the worst in California history. So the damage is real. Freddy’s reduced screentime is going back to the original roots by focusing more on the characters and developing them. And Freddy’s appearance is based more on his original design and attempts to make him different as this is the “Real” Freddy. Craven would later say he wasn’t sure if that was the right idea
The idea of the film is that it’s a movie within a movie within a movie. You’re watching the film made based off the movie that Heather is forced to play based of Wes’s Script! It’s so meta haha. Also, Wes isn’t really the villain within the story. The Freddy in the film is an ancient evil entity that has been around for thousands of years (which is why it’s lair looks like Ancient Rome) and it’s evil essence can be captured in stories like Hansel and Gretel (The witch has red and green). The entity was captured as Freddy in the original film but when they killed Freddy off in Freddy’s Dead, it was set free and is coming into reality to get everyone who made the films. So Wes is writing the script (based off Nightmares) of what the entity is doing and trying to capture it in another film to stop it.
I know I'm a little late to the party and plenty of good stuff has already been said, so, I'll just add my 2 cents. Freddy's look, as far as being changed from burned to ripped up: it's more of a symbolized tone of a demon trying to burst through into the real world. Freddy's look is that of a man being ripped apart by the emergence of that demon.
Great reaction as always!. I think I'm one of the few that really liked this new Freddy look, yeah it wasn't the "real" Freddy just a demon in Freddy form but I still think it looked great. I also loved the weird, surreal feel of it, there's something about the call backs mixed with the "real life" aspects that become more and more prominent as it goes on that I found really exciting. Dream Warriors is still my favourite, followed by the first then this one.
When heather calls Robert Englund and his answering machine picks up and says, he'll be unavailable for some time, its because he had been taken over by the dark entity to become Freddy Krueger in the real world
Soooo I just found out about a fan film coming out soon called "Dylan's New Nightmare" and it actually looks pretty decent for a fan film. It actually stars Miko from this film. If you're interested there is a trailer here on TH-cam. But I won't link to it as links in comments get blocked or hidden half the time.
The super dramatic chanting when he's doing his "It's all for you!" moment is very The Omen too, which is why I too thought of that movie almost instantly.
Omg I just remembered a line Tina said in the first film “I wonder if there’s going to be an earthquake. They say things get really weird just before” and then there was the whole earthquake sub plot in this.
Check out Dylan's New Nightmare. It just came out yesterday and it's only around 30 minutes long. Miko Hughes plays Dylan again and Dave McRae has taken over the role of Freddy in it. If the response is good enough they want to make a feature length film to complete the story.
Idk if you’ve ever seen the Phantasm franchise but I think you’d like it if you someday decide to react to it somehow. The first movie inspired so many other works from A Nightmare On Elm Street to Supernatural (the cw show) to The Black Phone because of so many similar scenes. It also started the dream sequence trope/trend in horror.
The reason Heather is "freaking out" more than anyone else because Wes told her to banish Freddy's once and for all is to play Nancy as it was Nancy that defeated Freddy and Heather gave Nancy her strength .....
Heather revealed some time ago that she is interested in returning to play Nancy in a possible new film about Elm street, but the character died in the third film and besides, the rights of the franchise are in the hands of the Craven family! I find it very difficult to create new films of the saga in these current times! wes craven died a long time ago, and he was the only person who knew how to make an excellent horror film with Freddy Krueger, I don't see anyone else with great vision to create excellent scripts for new stories.
Really? What all do you personally enjoy? Freddy looks so incredibly laughable. That kid is incredibly cringe. The effects....yuck. they looked horrible in 94 also. And there is so much that just doesn't make any sense and is trying to be so smart but it's not. What am I missing?
Haha I can see both sides. I think conceptually this film is pretty awesome. Some of the execution isn’t great and to think of the build up of when this came out in follow up to Freddy’s Dead and I can see how this film feels so much more sophisticated. So I think there’s a lot of nostalgia tied to it for people.
Speaking about props not being sharp lol they actually used real blades for Freddy's glove in the first movie, they were so sharp that Robert Englund actually cut himself the first time he tried on the glove but i don't know if they used real blades for the other movies, i'm assuming they didn't lol.
There is a fan theory known as the Beautiful Dream theory that turns the orignal, Dream Warriors and New Nightmare into a trilogy. If you remember at the end of Dream Warriors, Kristen promised to put Nancy into a beautiful dream forever. Well, what better dream for Nancy than a world where she is a famous Hollywood actress and Freddy is nothing more than a character in one of her movies. But Freddy somehow infiltrates her beautiful dream in New Nightmare. A fun little idea.
"Is Robert having Freddy Nightmares?" Robert Englund said there was a scene that omitted from the script where we see him have a nightmare where he's caught in a web by a freddy spider crying "Help me! Help me!"
I remember being 6 or 7 when I saw New nightmare on TV at the night. In fact, I saw it, while covering myself with a blancket. As a result, I had to sleep with my parents after I had seen it.
The woman who plays the teacher in the first one and a nurse in this one is also the producer's (Robert Shaye) sister Lynn Shaye, she is also elise Rainier in the insidious movies
All the people at the husband funeral are cameos from the previous movies, Like Nick Corri from Nightmare 1 Tuesday Knight from Nightmare 4 And so on .
Fun fact: the footage on Heather's tv of the earthquake in the film is apparently footage of a REAL earthquake that happened only a couple weeks before filming started. Also I feel like it's important to understand that this film is more like Scream than the original Nightmare. I feel like you maybe missed the point that it's not actually Freddy. It's a demon from thousands of years ago that has taken the form of Freddy, because for the last ten years Freddy has been the most common depiction of evil. So the pillars and paintings are not actually supposed to be a Freddy thing. They're supposed to represent that this demon has been around about as long as humanity has. Because the demon itself is a metaphor - it represents the darkness inside humanity ourselves.
I've had quite a time trying to get a comment to show up here for some reason. Basically: New Nightmare was the first meta-horror, so it deserves latitude on how grounded it is. I also recommended the recent Tippet masterpiece "Mad God," which I think is even darker than Lynch's "Eraserhead."
I gotta say though this actually frightened me as a kid. I've always been a huge fan of Freddy Krueger as a kid, but this was the only time he actually scared me. One he looked more demonic and two as as a kid I just didn't understand the whole meta thing especially since that just was never done back then. So I'm watching thinking he actually did come to life lol@@ScaredPale
Freddy was a rock star amongst audiences. The TV show scene is super accurate. This movie was far more critically acclaimed than any of the others. I'm not sure what your seeing
Not you HATING the second best movie in the franchise 😂 I think we’re all responsible in chat for over hyping you for it 💀 I’ve been waiting so long for this, thank you!
Thanks Brix!! Reading through these comments I’m surprised how divided this movie is for people! Some people hate it and others absolutely love it. I will say the more I’ve sat with it the more I appreciate it for sure. I’ll make a video at the end of the series run putting them in a favorite order. I’ll just say this one’s not at the bottom 😊
Ah yes 1994. I was 14 years old. By this time I would just watch Freddy movies for the laughs. We would still talk about it at school the next day however. 😁
I remember renting this from Blockbuster as a kid, and not knowing anything about it, I assumed it would involve Freddy in computers or RoboFreddy because his claw looked robotic on the DVD... boy was I in for a fun surprise
I really enjoyed your reaction to this and was quite hyped to see it! Unpopular opinion, but not only is this my favorite Nightmare film but it’s my favorite Scary Movie. I think it’s Wes’s best film too. More meta and mature than Scream In my humble opinion. And I think it builds on what Wes did in the original but shows his maturity as filmmaker. I love the commentary about horror films and the affect they have on the audience and the people who make them. And I love how he ties moviemaking to classic storytelling. He shows how these stories help release and exorcise demons and by destroying them or cancelling them causes mayhem. It’s so brilliant. I think this is Heathers best performance in the series too and I find Freddy really really scary in this film. It’s the only sequel where I feel like this is the same Freddy from the original. I also think moments like the cops telling Heather her husband died or Dylan trying to reach god as very profound, moving, and disturbing. I remember watching this late on tv and being so scared and shocked the whole time. I have been captivated since. It’s definitely a film that when I rewatch it, I love it more and more.
Don't know what you plan to watch next after you're done with the elm street series? But if I could make the choice as to what the next franchise would be I would choose the Toho Showa Universe, I would love to see you tackle Godzilla and other monsters within that franchise. I believe I've said it before that it would maybe be best to just break all 30 movies into trilogies if you want to watch other films in between the franchise just to keep it fresh' but if you think you can handle all 30 then that's cool by me! Not all of them have giant monsters in it' there is other stuff that it offers within the series to keep it different enough so you don't get bored, but anyway I will just write down the first three like last time in hopes that this might be the next one you watch? So here is the list of the first three out of thirty which are: 1.Godzilla (1954) 2.Godzilla Raids Again (1955) 3.Rodan (1956)
It's trippy but was so fun. I personally love all of the Freddy movies even the ones most think are wack. Nightmare 1&3 are definitely the best though!
These types of films are kind of an acquired taste. The 1994 film John Carpenter's "In the Mouth of Madness" have a concept very similar to this film where you watch the film unfold based on the script or the book unfolding. Another underrated film which is a Comedy / Drama which is also similar with a movie within a movie concept is 1997's "Hav Plenty".
I think you're missing real world context. Heather Langenkamp had a real world stalker just before this movie was made and it was fairly well known among her fans. Also, LA experienced earthquakes when the movie was made.
Yeah 😅 watching it out of context I definitely miss details like that. Cause I also don’t want to look up a ton about the film before watching it incase it gives any spoilers
I remember when this came out, I was 16 at the time, and was stoked since I had grown up on these movies. At first I was a little unsure of the more demonic Freddy look versus the movie Freddy but ended up loving it as I understood the movie more. I will say that I do agree, the line delivery (I hate to say mostly by Heather/Nancy), some of the pacing and general feel to the movie wasn't the best but I also wonder how hard it is for an actor to act "normal" for a character that plays a character. I will say that I did notice actor chemistry wasn't always the best is some 90s movies although I think some of the best movies came out during that decade, but these actors are much more of a horror movie actor and films such as this can be a bit of a transition at times, although I think Robert did a pretty good job. I think it was a nice way to wrap up the series though, granted they did a reboot years later that was just okay.
I’m gonna jump to Freddy vs. Jason. I don’t have a ton of interest in the F13th series. I’ve seen I think the first two a long time ago and over 2020 played the PlayStation game a ton so I get the premise enough to jump ahead
So I am little late. His look they just wanted to update it and with the demon wanted it to look like Freddy but same time not. Wes Craven wasn't writing and it was happening. He was dreaming and writing what he dreams. That's why was taking him so long to write the script. Last not many cover it (like you said Robert was having the dreams too which I wish we would of saw his side too) I think he became Freddy. At beginning when Chase is looking at the glove there is a prob of Freddy and another guys heads merging. One other thing is Julie the babysitter they said there was an early script that had her as the stalker, even the person that was calling her on the phone but that got scrapped. I do wish this morning had more dream stuff. Oh and last thing at the funeral there are lots of people from the movies. John Sax, Robert, Tina's boyfriend, Tuesday Knight from the 4th movie. Last there is a fan film, Dylan's new nightmare. They said they got the same actor, it's a long the lines of like the TV show and worth a watch. Also in fan film they took 3 nightmare songs and combine them into one which was interesting.
A voice actor/youtuber named Dave McRae is coming out with a fanfilm sequel to this movie with the original kid actor coming back to reprise Dylan in DYLAN'S NIGHTMARE. Movie will be on his TH-cam channel 😁 I can't wait for this famfilm because I love this movie. After ALL the sequels, this movie was refreshing when I watched them all in order as a kid. Part 2, Dream Warriors and this one has stuck with me the most and always gets replayed at Halloween 😁😇 Obviously Wes Craven perfected the Meta aspect in Scream because Shocker to me is terrible 🤣🤣🤣
It's a movie within a movie. . Everyone is playing a FICTIONALIZED version of themselves . Miko ( the little boy Dylan) has his own issues from watching Freddy . The point of the movie is the effect horror movies have on society and the psyche of actors from the movie. In reality Heather Lamgenkamp was stalked for a period of time after a show she did in 1988 just the 10 of us. She was so afraid she moved out of the country for a while.. Imagine being part of such a groundbreaking mirror when you're 20 years old and that role is what you are indentified with . It never left her To answer your question . Yes it's hella meta...
I knew someone who claimed that when she first saw this, she was a kid watching it with her family and when the answer the phone part came up their phone in real life rang at the exact same time and scared the shit out of them😱🤣
I was definitely as obsessed as those kids in the audience. I'd make my own glove with butter knives lol. Surprised no one thought I was deranged. I think Heather did actually have a stalker irl, but it was grom her Just the Ten of Us fandom, not Nightmare. She also has a husband that does effects. I'm surprised by your reaction, but I get your points. I've said before that I'm biased, but usually people love this one.
Even tho I think it’s it’s a good well made movie I’m never in the mood to rewatch it nor do I think the meta nature worked for Freddy. Thankfully Wes Craven perfected the meta horror with Scream. I don’t remember if you said if you’ve seen all the scream movies but if you haven’t you should do a reaction and if you had to rank the nightmare movies wha would it be?
I’ll be doing a nightmare ranking after I finish Freddy vs. Jason and the remake. (Even though those questionably count as part of the series.) But I LOVE the scream franchise. The past two I saw in theaters. I’ve seen them all quite a few times :) I did an after theatre reaction on my channel after seeing the last one.
@@ScaredPaleNice! Just noticed your channel and turned the notification on. I asked that question about Freddy vs Jason while watching your reaction to this. Now I know that you brought up after this reaction you'll be doing a reaction to Freddy vs Jason. Look forward to that and your feature reactions.
I think the only reason this movie is Loved by alot of fans is because Wes came back to do it. Personally i think it is total crap and all over the place also while no-one in this is great at acting i think Heather is one of the Worst there is...she could never act
Gonna react to the fan film everyone is talking about with Miko Hughes from New Nightmare An unofficial sequel to Wes Cravens new nightmare Called Dylans New Nightmare
I didn't liked this movie when it came out cause it missing some new and fancy dream sequences a whole bunch were just recycled from older movies except the highway scene and the very last scene. It was missing the freddy humor all the previous movies got cause of course this Freddy was not supposed to be the Robert Englund Freddy. I appreciate this movie a little more today but it's still not in my top 3 of Nightmare on Elm Street movies. I was very surprised when Freddy vs Jason came out and it was such a well made cross over movie, but that one CGI scene was a mess luckily it was short. :D
In a 2010 NOES documentary (Never Sleep Again), Wes Craven tells a story about how they were unable to make the kid cry, take after take. At one point, the father approaches Craven: "If it helps, we have a thing to make him cry, although we don't like to do it too often...". Craven agrees. The mother leaves the room and the father tells the kid: "Miko, your mother is dead." Boom. While the kid is crying, Craven acts quickly: "Camera rolls ! Action!". In the documentary, Craven chuckles with a bit of shame at that point, but Miko acknowledges he was not traumatized by the event because his mother immediately came back with a Happy Meal. He explains: "My mom was alive. I got a free Happy Meal. So I was fine."
Crazy story but I guarantee someone is going to use that story to try to cancel Wes craven one day.
I wonder if other directors do things like this?
It's horribly mean.
@@JEBsDailyDose probably, remember how Stanley Kubrick treated that actress from the shining, I can't remember her name.
@@christopherking4932 that's an adult. It should be illegal to do that to a child actor.
If be surprised if that was allowed in 2023.
@@christopherking4932 wah wah. Poor lil baby.
Freddy looks different because it's not Freddy. It's a demon who took the shape of the Freddy Krueger's character. Which makes the film even more bizarre.
A lot of the film is based off real life. Wes said the talk show with kids dressed as Freddy is based on an actual experience he had with Robert on a talk show I believe. Heather in real life was also actually harassed by a crazy stalker as well. And the Earthquake (which was already written in the script) actually happened and was one of the worst in California history. So the damage is real. Freddy’s reduced screentime is going back to the original roots by focusing more on the characters and developing them. And Freddy’s appearance is based more on his original design and attempts to make him different as this is the “Real” Freddy. Craven would later say he wasn’t sure if that was the right idea
They say life imitates art, but in this case, art imitates life.
The idea of the film is that it’s a movie within a movie within a movie. You’re watching the film made based off the movie that Heather is forced to play based of Wes’s Script! It’s so meta haha. Also, Wes isn’t really the villain within the story. The Freddy in the film is an ancient evil entity that has been around for thousands of years (which is why it’s lair looks like Ancient Rome) and it’s evil essence can be captured in stories like Hansel and Gretel (The witch has red and green). The entity was captured as Freddy in the original film but when they killed Freddy off in Freddy’s Dead, it was set free and is coming into reality to get everyone who made the films. So Wes is writing the script (based off Nightmares) of what the entity is doing and trying to capture it in another film to stop it.
The first, third, and this one are my favorite nightmare on elm street movies
I know I'm a little late to the party and plenty of good stuff has already been said, so, I'll just add my 2 cents. Freddy's look, as far as being changed from burned to ripped up: it's more of a symbolized tone of a demon trying to burst through into the real world. Freddy's look is that of a man being ripped apart by the emergence of that demon.
Great reaction as always!. I think I'm one of the few that really liked this new Freddy look, yeah it wasn't the "real" Freddy just a demon in Freddy form but I still think it looked great. I also loved the weird, surreal feel of it, there's something about the call backs mixed with the "real life" aspects that become more and more prominent as it goes on that I found really exciting. Dream Warriors is still my favourite, followed by the first then this one.
While Wes Craven said he regretted redesigning Freddy's look, Robert Englund would later say it's his favorite design out of all of them.
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When heather calls Robert Englund and his answering machine picks up and says, he'll be unavailable for some time, its because he had been taken over by the dark entity to become Freddy Krueger in the real world
Next Thursday there's a fan film, called Dylan's New Nightmare with Miko Hughes repricing his role from this as an adult.
It'll be on TH-cam.
Can’t wait!
Soooo I just found out about a fan film coming out soon called "Dylan's New Nightmare" and it actually looks pretty decent for a fan film. It actually stars Miko from this film. If you're interested there is a trailer here on TH-cam. But I won't link to it as links in comments get blocked or hidden half the time.
I stumbled across it too!! I’m totally going to check it out
@@ScaredPale There's another decent one already out called "the final nightmare of detective Coleman" I believe.
This is my favorite entry in the franchise, and I personally love the new design! There’s something so freaky about it, to me 😆
The super dramatic chanting when he's doing his "It's all for you!" moment is very The Omen too, which is why I too thought of that movie almost instantly.
Freddy is an actual entity that haunts the crew ... . The earthquake was real. It happened not long before they shot the movie.
I actually love the new Freddy look ! He is not really Freddy it's a demon entity . The more watches you do you pick up more and more things .
Omg I just remembered a line Tina said in the first film “I wonder if there’s going to be an earthquake. They say things get really weird just before” and then there was the whole earthquake sub plot in this.
OMG amazing connection!!!!!
Check out Dylan's New Nightmare. It just came out yesterday and it's only around 30 minutes long. Miko Hughes plays Dylan again and Dave McRae has taken over the role of Freddy in it. If the response is good enough they want to make a feature length film to complete the story.
Idk if you’ve ever seen the Phantasm franchise but I think you’d like it if you someday decide to react to it somehow. The first movie inspired so many other works from A Nightmare On Elm Street to Supernatural (the cw show) to The Black Phone because of so many similar scenes. It also started the dream sequence trope/trend in horror.
The reason Heather is "freaking out" more than anyone else because Wes told her to banish Freddy's once and for all is to play Nancy as it was Nancy that defeated Freddy and Heather gave Nancy her strength .....
The bone glove is taken from the artwork of the first 3 posters nightmare 1, 2 and 3. It's explained in the Never sleep again documentary
Heather revealed some time ago that she is interested in returning to play Nancy in a possible new film about Elm street, but the character died in the third film and besides, the rights of the franchise are in the hands of the Craven family! I find it very difficult to create new films of the saga in these current times! wes craven died a long time ago, and he was the only person who knew how to make an excellent horror film with Freddy Krueger, I don't see anyone else with great vision to create excellent scripts for new stories.
Surprised you found this a bit underwhelming . To me is a masterpiece right up there with part 1
Really? What all do you personally enjoy?
Freddy looks so incredibly laughable. That kid is incredibly cringe. The effects....yuck. they looked horrible in 94 also.
And there is so much that just doesn't make any sense and is trying to be so smart but it's not.
What am I missing?
Haha I can see both sides. I think conceptually this film is pretty awesome. Some of the execution isn’t great and to think of the build up of when this came out in follow up to Freddy’s Dead and I can see how this film feels so much more sophisticated. So I think there’s a lot of nostalgia tied to it for people.
Binging your reviews of this series. For close ups in many nightmare movies, they had sharp practicals. This movie will always be top 3
Speaking about props not being sharp lol they actually used real blades for Freddy's glove in the first movie, they were so sharp that Robert Englund actually cut himself the first time he tried on the glove but i don't know if they used real blades for the other movies, i'm assuming they didn't lol.
I think I may have heard that as well!! So not the standards of today movie making practices haha so sketchy
This was meta like Seinfeld. “It’s a horror movie about nothing”.
HA, I LOVE Seinfeld. I watch it every night
There is a fan theory known as the Beautiful Dream theory that turns the orignal, Dream Warriors and New Nightmare into a trilogy. If you remember at the end of Dream Warriors, Kristen promised to put Nancy into a beautiful dream forever. Well, what better dream for Nancy than a world where she is a famous Hollywood actress and Freddy is nothing more than a character in one of her movies. But Freddy somehow infiltrates her beautiful dream in New Nightmare. A fun little idea.
I LOVE THIS
"Is Robert having Freddy Nightmares?" Robert Englund said there was a scene that omitted from the script where we see him have a nightmare where he's caught in a web by a freddy spider crying "Help me! Help me!"
Haha omg would love to see it but honestly was probably cut for the best
@@ScaredPale I would have loved to have seen that too, I don't remember why they didn't shoot it.
This movie’s so good. I think it’s my favorite film in the franchise because it’s so good & re-watchable
I remember being 6 or 7 when I saw New nightmare on TV at the night. In fact, I saw it, while covering myself with a blancket. As a result, I had to sleep with my parents after I had seen it.
The glove is supposed to look like the one that was on the Original poster for Nightmare one. Check out the old poster.
The woman who plays the teacher in the first one and a nurse in this one is also the producer's (Robert Shaye) sister Lynn Shaye, she is also elise Rainier in the insidious movies
All the people at the husband funeral are cameos from the previous movies,
Like
Nick Corri from Nightmare 1
Tuesday Knight from Nightmare 4
And so on .
Dylan's New Nightmare, a fan film, check it out.Scared Pale as one freddy fan to another :)
This movie was well ahead of its time. To me it helped to make scream successful as it was meta. Wes was smart, he is missed as a person and filmmaker
Fun fact: the footage on Heather's tv of the earthquake in the film is apparently footage of a REAL earthquake that happened only a couple weeks before filming started.
Also I feel like it's important to understand that this film is more like Scream than the original Nightmare. I feel like you maybe missed the point that it's not actually Freddy. It's a demon from thousands of years ago that has taken the form of Freddy, because for the last ten years Freddy has been the most common depiction of evil. So the pillars and paintings are not actually supposed to be a Freddy thing. They're supposed to represent that this demon has been around about as long as humanity has. Because the demon itself is a metaphor - it represents the darkness inside humanity ourselves.
I was sad to hear of Wes's passing. For such a gifted creator dying of a brain tumor was just tragic irony
Great job as always, these videos and your explaining voice keep me entertained
Yes finally thanks for reacting ❤😊
"Return of the Mack!" (Mark Morrison)
R.I.P. Wes Craven.
The man, the legend .
This movie got the best reviews of the franchise
I've had quite a time trying to get a comment to show up here for some reason. Basically: New Nightmare was the first meta-horror, so it deserves latitude on how grounded it is. I also recommended the recent Tippet masterpiece "Mad God," which I think is even darker than Lynch's "Eraserhead."
Mad God was recommended to me on a live stream last year and I haven’t forgotten it. The animation is INSANELY BRILLIANT. I definitely need to see it
@@ScaredPale Extremely memorable. I would go so far as to call it genre-defining.
LMAO! The Booshie Freddy! Freddy trying to be styled up for GQ lol
Literally!
I gotta say though this actually frightened me as a kid. I've always been a huge fan of Freddy Krueger as a kid, but this was the only time he actually scared me. One he looked more demonic and two as as a kid I just didn't understand the whole meta thing especially since that just was never done back then. So I'm watching thinking he actually did come to life lol@@ScaredPale
Freddy was a rock star amongst audiences. The TV show scene is super accurate. This movie was far more critically acclaimed than any of the others. I'm not sure what your seeing
I’m only seeing what is in front of me since I don’t have the cultural context of the time when it came out
Not you HATING the second best movie in the franchise 😂 I think we’re all responsible in chat for over hyping you for it 💀 I’ve been waiting so long for this, thank you!
Or she has horrible taste in horror movies
Thanks Brix!! Reading through these comments I’m surprised how divided this movie is for people! Some people hate it and others absolutely love it. I will say the more I’ve sat with it the more I appreciate it for sure. I’ll make a video at the end of the series run putting them in a favorite order. I’ll just say this one’s not at the bottom 😊
That’s a fair judgement haha. It’s been fun watching a lot of these classics for the first time though. What are some of your favorites?
@@ScaredPale may I suggest a movie called A SERBIAN FILM. VERY CURIOUS WHAT YOU THINK OF THAT MOVIE.
Ah yes 1994. I was 14 years old. By this time I would just watch Freddy movies for the laughs. We would still talk about it at school the next day however. 😁
This was orginally Wes Cravens idea for Nightmare 3
So it was brought back for this movie Nightmare 7
Part 1, 3 and New Nightmare are the best in the franchise !
I remember renting this from Blockbuster as a kid, and not knowing anything about it, I assumed it would involve Freddy in computers or RoboFreddy because his claw looked robotic on the DVD... boy was I in for a fun surprise
Fantastic reaction! Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
In these movies some of the gloves were actually sharp for close ups.
I really enjoyed your reaction to this and was quite hyped to see it! Unpopular opinion, but not only is this my favorite Nightmare film but it’s my favorite Scary Movie. I think it’s Wes’s best film too. More meta and mature than Scream
In my humble opinion. And I think it builds on what Wes did in the original but shows his maturity as filmmaker. I love the commentary about horror films and the affect they have on the audience and the people who make them. And I love how he ties moviemaking to classic storytelling. He shows how these stories help release and exorcise demons and by destroying them or cancelling them causes mayhem. It’s so brilliant. I think this is Heathers best performance in the series too and I find Freddy really really scary in this film. It’s the only sequel where I feel like this is the same Freddy from the original. I also think moments like the cops telling Heather her husband died or Dylan trying to reach god as very profound, moving, and disturbing. I remember watching this late on tv and being so scared and shocked the whole time. I have been captivated since. It’s definitely a film that when I rewatch it, I love it more and more.
I don’t think your opinion is too unpopular 😊 it seems like people LOVE this movie
Don't know what you plan to watch next after you're done with the elm street series? But if I could make the choice as to what the next franchise would be I would choose the Toho Showa Universe, I would love to see you tackle Godzilla and other monsters within that franchise.
I believe I've said it before that it would maybe be best to just break all 30 movies into trilogies if you want to watch other films in between the franchise just to keep it fresh' but if you think you can handle all 30 then that's cool by me!
Not all of them have giant monsters in it' there is other stuff that it offers within the series to keep it different enough so you don't get bored, but anyway I will just write down the first three like last time in hopes that this might be the next one you watch?
So here is the list of the first three out of thirty which are:
1.Godzilla (1954)
2.Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
3.Rodan (1956)
It's trippy but was so fun. I personally love all of the Freddy movies even the ones most think are wack. Nightmare 1&3 are definitely the best though!
These types of films are kind of an acquired taste. The 1994 film John Carpenter's "In the Mouth of Madness" have a concept very similar to this film where you watch the film unfold based on the script or the book unfolding. Another underrated film which is a Comedy / Drama which is also similar with a movie within a movie concept is 1997's "Hav Plenty".
Interesting! I haven’t heard of either of those! ….ok but also your profile picture… JOHNNY RICO. Love it!!!
Oh you absolutely shoud check In the Mouth of Madness. Effects aged but concept and plot is insanely good
I used to watch this on dvd
The nurse with the needle is Wes Cravens daughter
heather was being stalked in real life as well after just the 10 of us ended
I think you're missing real world context. Heather Langenkamp had a real world stalker just before this movie was made and it was fairly well known among her fans. Also, LA experienced earthquakes when the movie was made.
Yeah 😅 watching it out of context I definitely miss details like that. Cause I also don’t want to look up a ton about the film before watching it incase it gives any spoilers
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I remember when this came out, I was 16 at the time, and was stoked since I had grown up on these movies. At first I was a little unsure of the more demonic Freddy look versus the movie Freddy but ended up loving it as I understood the movie more. I will say that I do agree, the line delivery (I hate to say mostly by Heather/Nancy), some of the pacing and general feel to the movie wasn't the best but I also wonder how hard it is for an actor to act "normal" for a character that plays a character. I will say that I did notice actor chemistry wasn't always the best is some 90s movies although I think some of the best movies came out during that decade, but these actors are much more of a horror movie actor and films such as this can be a bit of a transition at times, although I think Robert did a pretty good job. I think it was a nice way to wrap up the series though, granted they did a reboot years later that was just okay.
Now, is Freddy vs. Jason next or will you tackle the Friday the 13th franchise next before FvJ?
I’m gonna jump to Freddy vs. Jason. I don’t have a ton of interest in the F13th series. I’ve seen I think the first two a long time ago and over 2020 played the PlayStation game a ton so I get the premise enough to jump ahead
Heather langenkamp had a Freddy stalker in real life ! Wes used it and put it in the movie
Freddy looks like a Power Ranger villain in this movie, very cartoonish looking for a supposed "serious" take on the character
This is a movie within a movie Within a movie !
Great reaction 🔥💯😁 hope your day is going good
So I am little late. His look they just wanted to update it and with the demon wanted it to look like Freddy but same time not. Wes Craven wasn't writing and it was happening. He was dreaming and writing what he dreams. That's why was taking him so long to write the script. Last not many cover it (like you said Robert was having the dreams too which I wish we would of saw his side too) I think he became Freddy. At beginning when Chase is looking at the glove there is a prob of Freddy and another guys heads merging. One other thing is Julie the babysitter they said there was an early script that had her as the stalker, even the person that was calling her on the phone but that got scrapped. I do wish this morning had more dream stuff. Oh and last thing at the funeral there are lots of people from the movies. John Sax, Robert, Tina's boyfriend, Tuesday Knight from the 4th movie. Last there is a fan film, Dylan's new nightmare. They said they got the same actor, it's a long the lines of like the TV show and worth a watch. Also in fan film they took 3 nightmare songs and combine them into one which was interesting.
A voice actor/youtuber named Dave McRae is coming out with a fanfilm sequel to this movie with the original kid actor coming back to reprise Dylan in DYLAN'S NIGHTMARE. Movie will be on his TH-cam channel 😁 I can't wait for this famfilm because I love this movie. After ALL the sequels, this movie was refreshing when I watched them all in order as a kid. Part 2, Dream Warriors and this one has stuck with me the most and always gets replayed at Halloween 😁😇 Obviously Wes Craven perfected the Meta aspect in Scream because Shocker to me is terrible 🤣🤣🤣
Dave played Freddy but he didnt make the movie. It came out at the end of August on my youtube channel.
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It's a movie within a movie. .
Everyone is playing a FICTIONALIZED version of themselves .
Miko ( the little boy Dylan) has his own issues from watching Freddy .
The point of the movie is the effect horror movies have on society and the psyche of actors from the movie.
In reality Heather Lamgenkamp was stalked for a period of time after a show she did in 1988 just the 10 of us.
She was so afraid she moved out of the country for a while..
Imagine being part of such a groundbreaking mirror when you're 20 years old and that role is what you are indentified with . It never left her
To answer your question . Yes it's hella meta...
I knew someone who claimed that when she first saw this, she was a kid watching it with her family and when the answer the phone part came up their phone in real life rang at the exact same time and scared the shit out of them😱🤣
HAHA that’s awesome
Yeah this is actually an ancient demon, babe. Its just emulating Freddy. Your videos rock dude, turn up🤙
While editing this videos those dots connected more haha
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I was definitely as obsessed as those kids in the audience. I'd make my own glove with butter knives lol. Surprised no one thought I was deranged.
I think Heather did actually have a stalker irl, but it was grom her Just the Ten of Us fandom, not Nightmare. She also has a husband that does effects.
I'm surprised by your reaction, but I get your points. I've said before that I'm biased, but usually people love this one.
Honestly editing this video (it’s basically me getting to watch the movie again), I’m liking it more already. 😊
COOL WES CRAVEN NEW NIGHTMARE (1994 ) FILM REACTION -FIRST TIME WATCHING !!!!
Thanks!
This is Robert Englund fav makeup for Freddy and fav Nightmare film
Never sleep again documentary will explain all your questions from this movie
I wasn't keen on freddy's look in this (I prefer the makeup for NOES 2) but I do really like this film.
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Wes had to write Heather life in the new movie to trap the entity
The more re watches the smarter this movie is !
I think this was wes cravens experimant for the meta horror he would do later with scream
what a great movie reaction to start my sunday
Thanks!!
@@ScaredPale no .. thank you
Will you also be the first time to have seen the movie THE CROW by brandon lee?😊
I watched it once in high school but it’s been sooo long!
Thank you for answering
This is Robert Englund fav Elm street movie , even over part 1
Freddy had severe eye contacts in Nightmare 2
Even more then this movie
Even tho I think it’s it’s a good well made movie I’m never in the mood to rewatch it nor do I think the meta nature worked for Freddy. Thankfully Wes Craven perfected the meta horror with Scream. I don’t remember if you said if you’ve seen all the scream movies but if you haven’t you should do a reaction and if you had to rank the nightmare movies wha would it be?
I’ll be doing a nightmare ranking after I finish Freddy vs. Jason and the remake. (Even though those questionably count as part of the series.)
But I LOVE the scream franchise. The past two I saw in theaters. I’ve seen them all quite a few times :)
I did an after theatre reaction on my channel after seeing the last one.
Alot of scenes are supposed to be unrealistic
Did you know that in real life Heather Langenkamp owns and runs special FX company AFX Studio with her husband.
No way!! That’s awesome
my favorite nightmare
As much as I love this one, I do agree that his look isn't the best. I also didn't like the cartoony stuff at the end.
❤Great Review ❤
Will you also be doing a reaction to Freddy vs Jason
Yes!!! Should be coming out next week
@@ScaredPaleNice! Just noticed your channel and turned the notification on. I asked that question about Freddy vs Jason while watching your reaction to this. Now I know that you brought up after this reaction you'll be doing a reaction to Freddy vs Jason. Look forward to that and your feature reactions.
Should check out the Nightmare documentary Fred Heads
Loads of fans dress up like Freddy all the time .
Maybe it was a bit too hyped up by us in the comment section 😂
I can tell people have a ton of nostalgic love for this film for sure haha. But the more I sit with this movie the more I appreciate it
I think the only reason this movie is Loved by alot of fans is because Wes came back to do it. Personally i think it is total crap and all over the place also while no-one in this is great at acting i think Heather is one of the Worst there is...she could never act
Noo I love Heather 😭 but you’re not totally wrong haha….the acting is questionable
Freddy Vs Jason coming?
Yup! Probably this weekend!
Awesome can't wait 😊
Gonna react to the fan film everyone is talking about with Miko Hughes from New Nightmare
An unofficial sequel to Wes Cravens new nightmare
Called
Dylans New Nightmare
He was defeated by being contained in a story. I get not liking the execution.
Hi there
I didn't liked this movie when it came out cause it missing some new and fancy dream sequences a whole bunch were just recycled from older movies except the highway scene and the very last scene. It was missing the freddy humor all the previous movies got cause of course this Freddy was not supposed to be the Robert Englund Freddy. I appreciate this movie a little more today but it's still not in my top 3 of Nightmare on Elm Street movies. I was very surprised when Freddy vs Jason came out and it was such a well made cross over movie, but that one CGI scene was a mess luckily it was short. :D
F vs J will be my next watch! Can’t wait!