FREDDY'S (NOT) DEAD: (Wes Craven's) New Nightmare (1994)
“I guess evil never dies, right?”
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, serial killers, gore, blood, childhood trauma, horror, earthquakes, demons, death.
Oops, Freddy wasn’t really dead after the final nightmare. But as Wes Craven makes abundantly clear in this film, horror legends never really go away, they always stick around. Wes’ work in this film is admirable, and it’s some of the best storytelling in the series. Yet watching you can’t help but think about the meta-horror classic that Wes would bring to us just two years later, a film that redefined the genre. Everyone here is doing admirable work and “sending off “ Freddy in style, but there’s a lot of missed opportunities that could have made this a sure-fire horror masterpiece. We discuss (Wes Craven’s) New Nightmare to finish our Freddy Knife Hands series this week on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!
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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.
Excerpt taken from “A New Nightmare Begins,” written and composed by J. Peter Robinson. Copyright 1994 New Line Productions; Milan Entertainment, Inc.
Excerpt taken from the theme to the TV show Documentary Now! written and composed by Joshua Mosier.
