tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13994370.post4469493547637992422..comments2024-03-27T10:50:04.431-04:00Comments on living read girl: The Year of Freddy Fear awakens to a New Nightmarelady thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16287907577241697874noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13994370.post-33894763040282871182014-10-15T21:24:17.872-04:002014-10-15T21:24:17.872-04:00Great write-up! I have seen the NoES movies like 6...Great write-up! I have seen the NoES movies like 6+ times each, but I never made the connection to films 3 & 5, so good on you for catching that!<br /><br />This is my 2nd or 3rd favorite Nightmare film. Aside from the fact that this one was well-shot and had good actors, the ideas are really wonderful. In addition to bringing the real faces behind the film into the action, the concept of art being used to "trap" evil is brilliant.<br /><br />Sure, you see shades of that in Dorian Gray and some other stories, but New Nightmare makes it seem like it's practically a responsibility of artists to combat evil. Better still, the way they combat it is by "creating" evil characters. <br /><br />So it's a chicken and the egg scenario, where humans create evil myths that then become real, and must stay in the public's memory in order to be contained. These are very nifty and heady ideas, and they play nicely off the mundane cheapness of Wes trying to sell Heather on his script, stay at home mother Heather getting glammed up to meet the press, or Englund showing up at Heather's interview.<br /><br />I love that Freddy is back to being a scary MF, I love the new (& not teen-centric!) angle of this story, and I love all the times people say to Heather "like in your movies?"<br /><br />I provided my own MST3k-style commentary when I watched this for a second time in college, and my friends thought I was hysterical. Still, I wasn't mocking a bad film,ist one that afforded lots of chances for meta-humor.Thaddeushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17414047155226211676noreply@blogger.com