What is the boards opinion regarding Wes Craven's New Nightmare?

Pretty decent if I remember correctly. Much better than what the actual franchise had become

To me, it's the third best in the series after parts 1 and 3.

Should have been considered groundbreaking due to it's "reality" spin. Instead, it still has the stigma of "just another Freddy movie".

was Wes Craven's nightmare supposed to be that Freddy comes into our reality or is the movie supposed to be happening in real time?

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. He would have done it too but Craven assumed he was too big a star and didn't ask

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that's what happens when one assumes, and the worse that could've happen is Depp turns down the cameo

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Wes Craven's nightmare supposed to be that Freddy comes into our reality

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More or less this but "Freddy" was a manifestation of some demon or something that Wes Craven was trying to keep locked in with his writing, IIRC.

I thought it was very good and the only legit "scary" Nightmare movie (the original, IMHO, was more creepy than scary) It went off the rails just a touch at the end but still pretty good overall.

It's pretty solid. It's very meta, like Scream before Scream, basically.

It had potential, the story.. but it's execution was rather weak.

Depp said he would have been in it too, but was never asked. They didn't even bother asking him because they felt he would say no. Shame.

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The only thing missing was a Johnny Depp cameo. He would have done it too but Craven assumed he was too big a star and didn't ask.

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that's a damn shame for sure

I think it's the best in the entire franchise.