MF
Massimo Filograna
•Nancy, after the horrifying death of her boyfriend, all her best friends, and her mother, although she survived, suffers a nervous breakdown. Recovered, she graduates in psychology and years later decides to return to her hometown. One of her colleagues, in fact, is in charge of a group of maladjusted youths who inexplicably commit suicide in the most bizarre ways. Aware of Freddy's responsibility and determined to settle the score once and for all, she rushes to their aid, making them a fierce team of "dream warriors" whose strength will be to overcome psychological insecurities and physical disabilities that haunt them in real life. The same skeptical colleague will have to reconsider and will stand by her side in the fight against evil. This time Freddy will have a lot to deal with... For the first time, Freddy's origins are revealed: he is the son of a nun kidnapped and raped 50 years earlier in a criminal asylum by hundreds of sexual maniacs. The film boasts a subject strongly desired and therefore scripted by Wes Craven himself, in which we witness the return of the beautiful Nancy, now more mature and prepared than the defenseless and neurotic teenager seen in the first chapter, and one of the first appearances of Arquette in the role of Kristel, the girl whose power is to guide the outcome of dreams; but the originality of the film lies mainly in abandoning the themes of a crude and dark dream reality in favor of a more colorful and action-packed world where the victims are no longer pale shadows with a destiny marked by Krueger's clawing claws, but intrepid heroes, whose psychological traits and actions resemble the protagonists of manga and anime series that begin to emerge in those same years. Craven also has the merit of having known how to reinvent the character of Freddy, adding a biting irony in the remarks addressed to his victims, to the point of becoming almost "likable" to the viewer. It is a characterization that we will find punctually and affectionately boring in the various clumsy sequels of the 90s (except the original "Nightmare New Nightmare" in which Craven, at the conclusion of the series, takes care of the direction again - see review). In conclusion: the most fun and innovative chapter of the entire series.
