Massimo Filograna
•Is Krueger dead? No, because in reality, he was just a movie character. But Wes Craven, in the role of himself, and the main actors from the previous films find themselves victims of a mysterious negative influence with Freddy's face that forces them to make new stories… But Wes is too tired and then the curse begins to kill them all in horrible ways hidden by presumed accidents. The only chance of salvation is the actress Heather Langekamp who, to protect her son and husband from the monster's claws, discovers the terrifying truth behind Freddy's burned face and decides to confront it for a… final showdown.
The film was written and directed by Wes Craven who couldn't stand that his character had been massacred by commercial operations in the name of "box office" and constitutes the worthy conclusion of the Nightmare saga, where the director gives a lesson of clear superiority to all previous directors who didn't know how to value his character by turning it into a caricature of itself. And so, taking advantage of the dissacrator popular wave of the moment, he makes a film disorienting the viewer once again as he did in 1984. In the first Nightmare, dreaming equaled dying. In the last one, the viewer, now used to the old Freddy, is suddenly thrown into a film whose themes, in many respects, resemble a documentary filmed behind the scenes of the previous films, a place where fiction and reality mix in a perverse game that captivates and chains the viewer to the seat, unaware of a film within a film within a film… Among the curiosities related to this film, there is a probable homage to an episode of the horror investigator (No. 48 "Horror Paradise" published in September 1990 and drawn by Castellini) where our Dylan Dog faces an "android" Krueger who has futuristic features and wears a raincoat that four years later will wear Craven's Krueger (who has participated several times in the HorrorFest organized by Sclavi). But getting back to the film and concluding, the director's main merit lies in his ability to retransmit the chill of the first Krueger, reconstituting his value as a bogeyman, terrifying threat coming from the unknown, unfathomable and therefore inevitable, ready to grab us with invisible claws, sharp and incisive as the blades of his four razors. Must-see!
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