Wes Craven's New Nightmare

Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) is the seventh in the A Nightmare On Elm Street horror film series. It was preceded by ', and followed by Freddy vs Jason. The film was the first in the series since the original to be directed by Wes Craven, who also wrote the film. Heather Langenkamp appeared in a "Freddy" film for a third time, playing herself and reprising her role as Nancy Thompson.

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1994 - A Nightmare On Elm Street - Horror film - Freddy vs Jason - Wes Craven - Heather Langenkamp

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The tagline of the film was This time, staying awake won't save you. A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 7: The Real Story and A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 7: The Ascension were working titles of the film.

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Wes Craven set out to make a deliberately more cerebral film than recent entries to the franchise - which he regarded as cartoonish and not faithful to his original theme. The film was well-received critically, particularly for a film in its genre, but failed to make as big an impression at the box office as any of the previous six films - the United States take was $18m dollars. Several critics have subsequently said that New Nightmare could be regarded as a prelude to the Scream trilogy - both sets of films deal with the idea of bringing horror movies to "real life". Whilst the Scream films appealed to huge audiences, New Nightmare is talked of as a clever project, personal to Craven.

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