Wes Craven’s New Nightmare

This time the terror doesn’t stop at the screen and staying awake won’t save you. Ten years after the original nightmare, writer-director Wes Craven resurrects Freddy Krueger for an ingenious slasher that mixes meta commentary with hallucinatory frights, pulling the knife-gloved horror icon out of his celluloid world to torment the actress who defeated him on screen. Heather Langenkamp and Robert Englund shine in this stellar sequel.