Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
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Wes Craven’s New Nightmare is a 1994 meta-horror film that revitalizes the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise by blurring the line between fiction and reality, with cast and crew playing themselves as they are haunted by a real-life Freddy Krueger.
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| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| Wes Craven's New Nightmare | 4 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
film
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meta-horror film ⓘ slasher film ⓘ |
| basedOn | A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Mark Irwin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Wes Craven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | New Line Cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Patrick Lussier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Heather Langenkamp (fictionalized version)
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John Saxon (fictionalized version) NERFINISHED ⓘ New Line Cinema executive (fictionalized Robert Shaye) ⓘ Robert Englund (fictionalized version) NERFINISHED ⓘ Wes Craven (fictionalized version) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresElement |
blurring of fiction and reality
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film-within-a-film structure ⓘ self-referential narrative ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
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meta-fiction ⓘ slasher ⓘ |
| hasAntagonist | Freddy Krueger (darker redesign) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Freddy Krueger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | J. Peter Robinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early example of meta-horror in mainstream cinema
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revitalizing the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | A Nightmare on Elm Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays |
Freddy Krueger as an ancient evil entity
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actors playing themselves ⓘ |
| portraysActorAsSelf |
Heather Langenkamp
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John Saxon NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Englund NERFINISHED ⓘ Wes Craven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInSeries | seventh film ⓘ |
| producer |
Marianne Maddalena
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Wes Craven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | New Line Cinema ⓘ |
| ratingMPAA | R ⓘ |
| releaseDate | October 14, 1994 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 112 minutes ⓘ |
| setIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| starring |
Fran Bennett
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Heather Langenkamp NERFINISHED ⓘ John Saxon NERFINISHED ⓘ Julius Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ Miko Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Englund NERFINISHED ⓘ Tracy Middendorf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subgenre | postmodern horror ⓘ |
| writer | Wes Craven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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