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Wes Craven's New Nightmare

 Starring: Robert Englund

 Directed by: Wes Craven

 Rated R

 Genre: Horror

 Original Release Year: 1994

 Synopsis: A new Nightmare on Elm Street movie comes to life.

 My Thoughts: Wes Craven returns to the dying franchise to give it one last boost.

   Scorecard

     Acting- Heather Langenkamp returns as herself playing her first role Nancy. If you are not confused you get a cookie! Langenkamp over acts everything and I know she was supposed to, but it was one of those overacting jobs that gives you a headache it was so bad. Robert Englund returns as Freddy Kruger, but you would not know it, during the credits Freddy Kruger is cast as himself. Which was pretty funny. And Wes Craven as himself was actually not too bad. Overall the acting in this movie was average at best. (1/2)

     Direction- When you are making a movie within a movie it has to be incredibly confusing and hard to do. Wes Craven pulls it off. I was very impressed with the way Craven made this film flow. There was not a lot of greatness, but again, it worked very nicely for what Craven was doing. Again, it was just average. (1/2)

     Story- Wes Craven decides to make one last Nightmare movie, but during the filming of this film Freddy Kruger comes to life. While it isn't the best written story, it actually played out pretty well. The cast oversold everything, but it worked for this movie, this whole movie was supposed to be over the top. (1)

     Expectations- When I heard that Craven was returning to make one last Nightmare movie, I had my reservations, but I was hoping that it wouldn't stink up the joint like the last few. I was happy with what I got. It was not the greatest job by Craven, but it did not stink up the joint either. (1/2)

     Boring?- Like I said earlier, this film was way overdone. While it really worked for this film, there were quite a few parts that really had you rolling your eyes because it was a little too overdone. This film had a running time of 115 minutes or so, so of course with a running time like that for a horror movie, you are going to get lots of slow spots and lots of down time, and we did get a lot of them, but the film still flowed nicely so I cannot deduct the full star. (1/2)

  Final Score: 3 out of 5

 Final Thoughts: This was a good way to end the franchise. Now lets just hope the filmmakers do not decide to bring this franchise back. I was very impressed with everything this film had to offer. Again though, if you are not a fan of the franchise or the genre, do not see this because you will not understand it. 

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