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As Scream was an easier film to pitch to mainstream audiences, the Kevin Williamson-scripted slasher managed to sell a meta-horror to the masses, but because Craven’s vision was complex, satirical, and thoughtful, New Nightmare failed to find the same success among the Friday night casual viewing crowd.Hard I Look Sega Fm Version by Victor Manuel Navarro In comparison, Scream’s story was an easy sell (small-town teens terrorized by a mysterious masked murderer) but offered numerous red herrings, twists, clever misdirections, and ingenious shocks to keep viewers hooked. ![]() In stark contrast, from its still-shocking opening sequence through to the twisty (but crucially not overcooked) finale, Scream is a strong whodunit whose fast-paced screenplay from I Know What You Did Last Summer scribe Kevin Williamson offers more guesswork than the comparatively slow (if wittily meta) New Nightmare.Īs such, New Nightmare was saddled with an ingenious premise that was at first tough to explain (he’s Freddy, but not really), and a relatively predicable-once-established plot (essentially, Langenkamp’s character still must find a way to defeat Freddy before he hunts down her and her loved ones in her dreams, in a meta- remake of the first A Nightmare On Elm Street movie). With the fantastical premise of New Nightmare being as complicated as it is (in essence, New Nightmare's evil Entity takes the form of whatever the predominant cultural fear is at the time of its awakening, meaning it turns into Freddy Krueger and starts picking off the creators who are responsible for making the slasher less scary in later A Nightmare On Elm Street sequels), it’s difficult to sell the clever story in a straightforward trailer. This cast further strengthened Scream’s broad appeal where New Nightmare hoped to pull in audiences through cleverness and nostalgia alone. Once again, viewers who didn’t notice horror geek details like Wes Craven’s cameo dressed as Freddy Krueger were still able to enjoy a string of superb turns from an entire generation of talented newcomers, not to mention the fact that their Scream co-stars Drew Barrymore, Henry Winkler, and Courtney Cox were all already independently famous and popular at the time of the movie’s release. But N ew Nightmare’s cast couldn’t compare to the still-incredible lineup offered by Scream, with Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, and Matthew Lillard all progressing from relative unknown status to stardom on the slasher’s back. Speaking of Heather Langenkamp and Robert Englund, the actors might be a pair of appealing performers and even Craven himself wrung plenty of wry laughs out of the self-parody performance he offered in New Nightmare. Freddy krueger wav series#As if to prove this point, Craven’s later Scream sequel Scream 3 proved the weakest installment of its quadrilogy and was also the only film in the series to focus its plot in Hollywood instead of a small-town setting like Springwood or Woodsboro, where the return-to-form sequel Scream 4 returned. ![]() Freddy krueger wav movie#Ever self-aware, Craven himself admitted that New Nightmare may not have been an appealing prospect for viewers as the movie’s characters (whose cast consisted of movie producers, professional actors, and industry insiders) simply weren’t as relatable as the witty small-town teens of Scream. However, despite this solid showing, New Nightmare’s box office was nonetheless the worst performance by a film in the A Nightmare On Elm Street franchise thus far, with it coming in lower than the previous worst performer A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. New Nightmare grossed a more-than-respectable $19 million at the box office upon release, earning back more than double its $8 million budget. So what changed in the intervening time that made Scream so appealing and New Nightmare such an un-involving prospect for cinema-goers? Numerous elements contributed to the disparity between their respective performances, but the characters, setting, and story structure all played a big part. The resulting meta-slasher Wes Craven’s New Nightmare was a hit with critics but fell comparatively flat with audiences, only for Craven’s subsequent meta-slasher Scream to become a huge hit a mere two years later upon its 1996 release. ![]() The unforgettably creepy Freddy Krueger and Craven’s addition of fantastical elements to the slasher formula led A Nightmare On Elm Street to become a runaway success, so naturally, fans were excited when the director returned to the series in 1994. ![]() The original A Nightmare On Elm Street saw Craven reignite the ailing public interest in the tired slasher sub-genre, which by the mid-‘80s had become overpopulated by wordless Jason Voorhees clones with masks, machetes, and little to distinguish them from one another. Related: Why Matthew Lillard Should Return As Stu Macher In Scream 5 ![]()
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