#horrors

"Wes Craven's New Nightmare" is like a minimalistic "Omen" and a story about how filming a horror movie can drive you crazy, especially if you are the final girl. Although, of course, deeply Wes Craven reflects on the fears of adults passing their curse to children. And the main protector turns out to be... a plush tyrannosaurus

In general, Wes Craven is brilliant. Although that has been obvious for a long time. He managed to return to the franchise as a director and sole author of the story after working on the very first film [10 years later] and give a master class. He simply nullified all previous 5 films and made the sequel he wanted to see. At the same time, he cast the main favorites from the cast and made a cameo himself.

Now it's clear who David Gordon Green was emulating when reviving "Halloween". True, in the end he lacked the corresponding elegance

"Wes Craven's New Nightmare" was released in 1994, 2 years before the first "Scream" (1996), and importantly, long before the third "Scream" (2000), where Craven was already actively flirting with meta and making a film within a film. The seventh Freddy film is exactly that sandbox where Craven started

P.S. I felt the vibes of "Terminator" and "Beetlejuice"