Nightmare on Elm Street 7:
New Nightmare
[DVD Info]

Heather Langenkamp (played by herself) is an actress. She acted in the first Nightmare on Elm Street film and the third one. She’s a wife and a mother of one. Lately she’s been getting threatening phone calls from a man who uses a character from her film’s voice to say threatening things. Who’s the character? Well…the evil villain in her movies…Freddy Krueger, of course. Her husband Chase (David Newsom) works building animatronics and special effects for movies. One morning after a horrible nightmare and being jarred awake by an earthquake her husband leaves for a business trip in Florida. As soon as he leaves the phone calls start again..."One, two...Freddy's Coming for Yoooou..." Her son, Dylan (Miko Hughes), begs her not to go to an interview she's about to leave for. He has a bad feeling. She consoles her son but has to leave anyway.

During the interview, Heather is asked about her past in movie making, and how her son reacts to her past films. Without much time to answer they bring out Robert Englund in his Freddy makeup. Heather is a little uneasy...wondering if maybe it's Robert who's been calling her. After the show she gets a phone call from New Line Studios. She heads over there and is asked to be in the new movie Wes Craven is making. It's a new Freddy movie. She refuses. She's been getting weird phone calls and letters in the mail...she doesn't want to fuel this psycho any further...but...she's not the only one getting phone calls and letters...

When she arrives home, she finds her son screaming and freaking out in his sleep. He's saying things about Freddy and foaming at the mouth. She calls her husband and tells him to come home right away. That night she has a dream that her husband was murdered by Freddy and when she wakes up there are police at her door. Her husband died in a car crash. Suspicious, she heads down to the morgue to look at his body...it looked like it had been clawed...like in her dream. Heather doesn't trust anyone...Does Freddy really exist? Or is someone imitating the fictional murderer? Or is she just plain crazy?

If you're getting threatening phone calls, there's no need to change your phone number.
Movie Stars drive old school Volvos.
The nurse is at fault when you don't tell her your son sleepwalks.
You can get hit by a speeding car and come out perfectly okay.
When looking for your missing child in the bed and he's not there...be sure you look underneath the pillow.

"Pick a pet for your rugrat...BITCH!" ~Freddy Krueger.

Bleh...let's just say...I wasn't impressed...

Ugh...this movie was so boring. They pretty much take the first movie but change the story around (they even use the goopy stairs again!) so that Heather knows she’s in a movie…but nothing happens until the last 15 minutes of the film. Just a whole lotta talking and wondering what’s going on...but no action. The whole premise of the story is stupid. Freddy is a fictional character who knows that his character was killed off in the last movie…so he comes to life to kill people so he lives again. That doesn’t really make sense. I hated that nurse who was like “Have you let him see your films?” and like freaking out when she did? It’s not her business. Anyway…it’s not a bad film but it was boring. They only show 1 ½ Freddy related deaths (and one of them is almost an exact copy of Tina’s death in the first one…the girl is even blonde). Yeesh…why did they even bother making this movie if they were going to basically make a lamer version of the first movie? Because of this, the jury gives this flick:

(Bored)

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