{"id":18113,"date":"2025-11-03T21:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T02:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18113"},"modified":"2025-11-02T21:24:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:24:02","slug":"new-nightmare-1994-wes-craven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18113","title":{"rendered":"New Nightmare (1994, Wes Craven)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years I&#8217;ve suspected I was wrong to hate this movie, which I saw in the dollar theater where they spray windex on the popcorn, and now can confirm it&#8217;s actually a good movie.  They try hard to sink it, having two out of three scenes turn out to have been only a dream, which becomes tiresome, and including a haunted child (who Poltergeists and Shinings and Exorcists) and giving digital assistance to the claw effects, and evoking worst <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16844\">sequel #5<\/a> in the climax of a mom searching for her kid in dream world, and Craven learning to make everything All About Trauma, and Freddy looking like <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/pd187\/film\/new-nightmare\/\">a Dick Tracy villain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/newnite.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Linking the Elm Streets with the <em>Scream<\/em> series, Freddy interferes with the making of an <em>Elm Street<\/em> movie, killing the effects crew and tormenting Heather\/Nancy and her kid.  Englund and John Saxon play their actor selves, concerned friends of Heather, then gradually turn into their <em>Nightmare<\/em> selves, pulling her back into the movie-world.  Since the kid is full of fairy-tale bedtime stories, Freddy gets wicked-witched <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18083\">again<\/a> &#8211; after the silliness of the last few movies this one is trying to get darker and more serious with higher stakes, then she stabs Freddy in the eye with an eel and he fights back by extending his <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18112\">hundred-foot tongue<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years I&#8217;ve suspected I was wrong to hate this movie, which I saw in the dollar theater where they spray windex on the popcorn, and now can confirm it&#8217;s actually a good movie. They try hard to sink it, having two out of three scenes turn out to have been only a dream, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,494,3388,3069,265,181,822,2001],"class_list":["post-18113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-dreaming","tag-eels","tag-john-saxon","tag-meta","tag-sequel","tag-three-dimensional","tag-wes-craven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18123,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18113\/revisions\/18123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}