The Verdict
Nancy, after the horrifying death of her boyfriend, all her best friends, and her mother, despite saving herself, suffers a nervous breakdown. Recovering, she graduates in psychology and years later decides to return to her hometown.
Nancy, after the horrifying death of her boyfriend, all her best friends, and her mother, despite saving herself, suffers a nervous breakdown. Recovering, she graduates in psychology and years later decides to return to her hometown. A colleague of hers is indeed treating a group of maladjusted teenagers 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 handicaps that haunt them in real life within the dream itself. Even the skeptical colleague will have to reconsider and will stand by her side in the fight against evil. This time Freddy will have a taste of his own medicine… 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 especially 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 fate sealed by Krueger's clawing claws, but intrepid heroes, whose psychological traits and actions resemble the protagonists of manga and anime series that are emerging in those same years. Craven also has the merit of having reinvented the character of Freddy, adding a biting irony in the remarks directed at his victims, to the point of making him almost "likable" to the viewer. It's a characterization that we will find punctually and affectingly boring in the various clumsy sequels of the 90s (except for the original "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.
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