New Nightmare

Freddy goes meta! The draft version of *Scream*? The first indication being the "alone in a house with a stranger calling" scene playing out just like a *Scream* movie at the beginning. Then we get a bunch of meta stuff and it starts to resemble *Scream 3* with the Stab stuff in Hollywood. It doesn't commit to the metaness enough though, even abandons it at times and ends up feeling half-baked. I do appreciate the different approach from the other movies in the franchise, it's just bad execution. If you stop comparing it to *Scream* it's still an incredibly generic horror movie. Filled with horror clichés that are used in the most obvious ways. Horrible design for Freddy, his face looks like The Creeper (*Jeepers Creepers*). There's one scene I really liked and it's the cemetary one. Terrible third act. A similar third act that worked wonderfully is [spoiler]*Child's Play 2*[/spoiler]. This one was absolute crap!

Way too few 'scary' moments to consider this a horror. None of the Nightmare movies are good, that's the charm of the franchise but this was a pain to sit through. And how is it possible Freddy looks worse than the first movie? He looks like one of them fake knock off masks in this. The kid was pretty good though. And I liked Julie.