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Andra Haan

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Dec 8, 2023, 9:50:42 AM12/8/23
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Heather is a guest on a morning talk show the very same day, where they discuss the 10th anniversary of the "Nightmare" films. Also, as part of the talk show line-up, Robert Englund as himself tears through a screen dressed up as Freddy Krueger to surprise Heather, Heather is slightly disturbed by this. Producer Bob Shaye asks Heather to visit his office at New Line Cinema, and explains that Wes Craven is working on a script for the new and final "Nightmare" film. Heather is asked to reprise her role as main character "Nancy", but decides against it with her own recent nightmares, disturbing phone calls, and disgruntlement over her son's change in behavior. Bob explains that her husband Chase Porter is also working on the film and he is creating a scary new glove for Freddy, much to Heather's dismay.

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After a short sleep in Dylan's room, Heather wakes to discover Dylan is gone, she goes downstairs and finds Dylan in another episode. Heather finally takes Dylan to the hospital, there a doctor asks if Dylan said anything during his trance, Heather says "No" but the doctor later gets it out of her that Dylan has been doing Freddy-like actions and singing Freddy's theme. Later, Julie (Dylan's babysitter) shows up at the hospital and tells Heather she had a nightmare about him.

There was a scene in the script that depicted a Robert Englund Freddy nightmare. The nightmare had Robert stuck in a spider-like web, and Freddy was a giant spider. (Described as a giant black widow with the red symbol under the belly having red and green stripes.) This was dropped, because it didn't fit with the film's overall tone but according to Englund, it was due to budget issues.

AllGame gave the GBC version 3/5 stars rating, saying, "Despite the frightening battle system and confusing play, the game is ultimately redeeming. It is definitely worth seeing; the eerie graphics can really pull a player into its spooky environment. But customers should think carefully before purchasing it, and not jump into things as fast as Edward Carnby did. Those who are patient and dedicated will probably find Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare very rewarding, while everyone else might consider this game a bit too difficult and trying". The website also gave the PlayStation version 3/5 stars, saying, "This game should have been in development longer and more polished (there are numerous graphical glitches and clipping that occurs). A good game, but it could've been great. As with all survival horror games, play this game in the dark, and only at night. It's vital that you do, and it accents the game". Edge gave the same console version 7/10. X-Play gave the Dreamcast version 3/5 stars and said that "it isn't really bad. However, it also isn't really new. It's just a shambling clone in step with the rest of the survival horror games. Perhaps its creators would have been better off evoking an old nightmare instead". Carla Harker of Next Generation said of the PC version in its October 2001 issue, "Despite its faults, very few PC games provide these kinds of Lovecraftian thrills and chills. The New Nightmare suffices". Jeff Lundrigan of the same magazine later said of the Dreamcast version in its final issue, "If you haven't tried any other version, Dreamcast is definitely the way to go with this one."

After a short sleep in Dylan's room, Heather wakes to discover Dylan is gone, she goes downstairs and finds Dylan in another episode. Heather finally takes Dylan to the hospital, there a doctor asks if Dylan said anything during his trance, Heather says "No" but the doctor later gets it out of her that Dylan has been doing Freddy-like actions and singing Freddy's theme. Later, Julie (Dylan's babysitter) shows up at the hospital and tells Heather she had a nightmare about him. Soon, two nurses want to sedate Dylan, but Julie had been instructed by Heather to not let Dylan fall asleep while she goes home to get Rex. Julie ends up punching a nurse and threatening another with a needle (cameo appearance by Wes Craven's daughter), and locks the door. Meanwhile, Heather tried to leave but had been stopped by security guards to be questioned by the doctor, the doctor suspects Heather is insane, and tries to get her to agree to foster care. Next, Dylan drifts to sleep, Freddy appears in the locked hospital room and brutally slays Julie.(ironically in the same fashion as Tina Gray in the first film) The nurses unlock the doors, and discover the murder in progress. They run, but Heather is concerned where Dylan went, the doctor realizes Heather is right. Heather soon remembers home, (previously she comforted Dylan by telling him their home is right across the freeway from the hospital). She discovers a giant Freddy dangling Dylan from above traffic. She arrives home and finds Dylan, but Freddy begins to manipulate the world around her, causing her to become Nancy and her house to become the house on Elm Street. By forcing Heather to accept the role he wants her to play, Freddy rises out from Dylan's bed and is fully in the real world. Heather runs inside and into Dylan's room only to find him gone, and the toy dinosaur Dylan believed was protecting him totally eviscerated by Freddy.

"When he finally turns into a snake at the end and he's wrapping himself around my throat and strangling me that way, it's the only scene that I've ever had nightmares about, because it really, to me, was Freddy," Langenkamp said. "He humiliated me in a way. It was really scary. It was really mean-spirited. It was a very sexual power that he was expressing. There was nothing funny about it."



VIOLENCE/GORE 8 - Four people are killed by slashing, with lots of blood. Blood is shown coming from people's eyes and noses. Heads are slashed off. The heroine falls into an open coffin and bangs her head during an earthquake (blood is shown on her brow). There are some gross-out scenes with flying green vomit, goo pours from a telephone, and some pretty nasty monster effects. There is a shocking moment when a boy tapes knives to his fingers and tries to kill his mother. A baby-sitter gets clawed in the back and is dragged to the ceiling until dead. A little boy is victimized by nightmares, after his father is killed.

It started its attack by killing Charles Wilson and Terrance Feinstein, two special effects technicians working on the new Nightmare on Elm Street film by making a robotic claw. Heather saw the attack in a nightmare and was shocked when she learned of their deaths. The Entity then attacks Heather's husband, Chase, killing him and making it look like a car accident, though the claw marks on his torso made Heather suspicious. Heather talks to Robert Englund about seeing Freddy, but Freddy was scarier. Robert completed it by saying darker, more evil, indicating the Entity was affecting Englund as well. Heather then goes to Wes and Wes explains the new movie is needed to contain the entity but asks Heather to be Nancy one last time.

This opening sequence (revealed shortly later to be a nightmare) occurred on the film set of a new Nightmare on Elm Street movie, directed by Wes Craven (Himself). The special F/X creator, Chase Porter (David Newsom), was manipulating the sinister metallic claw device, as it was jammed onto the arm stump, and tubes pumped fake blood. The shot ended with the command: "And cut. Print that, Gretchen!" Craven told Chase: "You're a genius. This makes his old claw look like Mother Teresa's mitten." The crew members congratulated themselves: "Some of our best work."

She was convulsing in her own bed, and experiencing a nightmare, as a 5.3 earthquake struck their home in Los Angeles. It was the fifth earthquake in three weeks in the area. After it subsided, Heather noticed and then questioned a cut on Chase's finger - the same one he had received in her dream.

After a few weeks of receiving harassing phone calls from a "nutcase," Heather said that they had stopped, but she was still fearful: "He's closer, if anything. It's giving me nightmares." She described her previous night's dream:

Director Wes Craven, Freddy's creator, had pitched the idea and was working on the script, although for a time he had stopped doing horror films when his inspiration dried up, due to his own lack of "scary nightmares." Shaye suggested that she would reprise her starring role as Nancy Thompson: "You're the star" - but she was very unsure, now that she was a mother. She was startled and dismayed when told that her husband was secretly working on creating a prototype for a new glove for the film. Over the past few months that the script was being worked on, Heather suspected, coincidentally, that "funny" things had begun happening: "Like weird phone calls, or nightmares."

That night at Dylan's bedside, Heather read some of the Hansel and Gretel storybook tale to Dylan, but she paused, remarking that the violent story would give him nightmares - but he urged her to continue: "I like this story," he claimed. She finished the tale of how Gretel fooled the witch and pushed her into an oven's flames to kill her once and for all, and to save her and her brother. The story ended when the two followed a trail of breadcrumbs back to their house where they were safe. Before Dylan went to sleep, he told his mother how Rex, as a guard under his sheets toward the bottom of his bed, kept "the mean old man with the claws" from moving up toward him at night.
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