#belatedly finishing up my freddython so i can get started on the Jasoniad (and presumably be very disappointed by their eventual melding in

[mariocki]

Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)

"Wes. Wes! How can we stop him?"

"I think the only way to stop him is to make another movie."

#Wes Craven's New Nightmare #Freddython #A Nightmare on Elm Street 7 #slasher film #Horror imagery #Wes Craven #Heather Langenkamp #Miko Hughes #David Newsom #Tracy Middendorf #Robert Englund #Sam Rubin #Marianne Maddalena #Tuesday Knight #John Saxon #Fran Bennett #Tamara Mark #Tina Vail #J. Peter Robinson #belatedly finishing up my freddython so i can get started on the Jasoniad (and presumably be very disappointed by their eventual melding in #freddy vs jason). not sure why i put this off for so long actually‚ bc it's kind of everything i was looking for in a later Elm Street #sequel (and everything the previous couple of films weren't): an original idea‚ a new take on the mythos. a year or so before Scream‚ Wes #dips his toe in meta narrative by making a film about making a new Freddy film; cue lots of fun appearances by actors playing themselves #including Langenkamp giving quite possibly her best performance in the series. this is much more than knowing winks tho; it also goes back #to basics‚ keeping Freddy largely offscreen until the final showdown‚ building up tension through a series of unsettling fake outs and #misdirections. Englund has a lot of fun playing Englund‚ and I actually like the redesigned Freddy (tho it appears to be a source of #controversy in many of the reviews i read on letterboxd). a very fun and fitting way to end the series (kind of) (obviously he came back) #and oh what i wouldn't give to be beautiful widow Langenkamp‚ comforted by the strong arms of John Saxon