Bodhi Elfman, Claudia Haro, David Newsom

A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?

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R, 112 min.

Directed by: Wes Craven

Release Date: October 14, 1994

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DVD Release Date: August 21, 2001

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  • September 15, 2009
    Interesting idea but not fantastic. Certainly not as clever as people made out but it's slightly better than scream though I thought!
  • October 11, 2007
    This one was okay.
  • August 26, 2007
    Standard film, mediocre, nothing further, worth one watch or two.
  • August 6, 2007
    Genuinely interesting - if not completely scary - movie blends fiction and reality as several people associated with the "Nightmare" franchise play themselves, in a story in which actress Heather Langenkamp is being plagued by nightmares about the Freddy Krueger character. She gr...( read more)adually learns that the "Freddy Krueger" character has taken on a life of "his" own and is determined to punish the makers of the "Nightmare" series for killing him off in Part Six.

    I'll say this for what writer / director Wes Craven has done - this is ambitious work that could legitimately claim to be more intelligent than standard slasher cinema. Like I said, I didn't find to be particularly scary (at least not for my tastes), but this doesn't rely on any standard slasher formula, and for once the characters aren't certifiable morons. The most amusing thing about the movie is watching various actors and executives play themselves, or at least versions of themselves. Miko Hughes, who plays Langenkamp's fictional son Dylan, is cute and a tolerable young actor - I've seen worse child actors in my time.

    Best of all, "Freddy" has become a genuinely frightening bogeyman again instead of the joke he had become by Part Six.
  • June 9, 2007
    Totally innovative film, which pretended the other Elm Street films were simply films, and brought Freddy into our Elm-Street-viewing world. They made Freddy so much real and scarier, he had a new look which was twice as frightening. They had Heather Lagenkamp and Robert Englund ...( read more)play themselves as actors in the Elm Street film franchise. Wes Craven even appeared as himself, writing the next Freddy script, which was totally cool. It was good how they tied in the Los Angeles earthquakes with the return of Freddy. My only complaints: I did not like the possessed-kid plot, which has been overused. I also thought the freeway scene looked totally fake, like it was back-projected.
  • November 4, 2009
    Oh no not a Freddy movie. Yes Freddy is a classic bad guy, but one of the most cornyest one ever.
  • October 31, 2009
    Such a great film, stand alone or as a sequel. The concept is very intriguing.
  • October 29, 2009
    Hello Freddy? Killed any one in the past 10 years?
  • October 21, 2009
    written, director, starring(as himself in the movie)wes craven return to direct next series again in "a nightmare on elm street" of the seven. heather langenkamp who is reprise starring the first one & third one in "a nightmare on elm street" as herself/nancy thompson & with robe...( read more)rt englund who did all of the series that he role as himself/freddy krueger and he made new look(it like "new" it look jason voorhees in "jason X"). there footage from the first one original "a nightmare on elm street" in tv. there with references, same line, and some of cast of same as the original. im surprise the cast and the director into the reunion in 10 years from the original. one of the good series film.
  • October 11, 2009
    trying to milk the success...but failing....

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  • thedoctor2k7
    March 31, 2008
    yh i have and has anyone else noticed the aomunt of references to the first movie and not the rest of francise
  • CSN91
    May 12, 2007
    has anyone else noticed that at the end credits it says Freddy Krueger was played by Himself and not Robert Englund hmmm

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