Wes Craven's New Nightmare

Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) is the horror film you can watch online on iFILM, and it isn't just another Freddy Krueger sequel. Director Wes Craven pulls a sly trick: actress Heather Langenkamp plays a version of herself, and the wall between the movie set and her real life slowly comes apart.

Years after playing Nancy in the original, Heather has a quiet life with her special-effects-artist husband and their young son Dylan. The studio wants her back for a new Krueger picture the fans keep demanding. Then the nightmares return — familiar ones — except now they reach for her child. Something dark seems to be wearing Freddy like a mask, clawing its way off the film reel and into the waking world. Robert Englund straps on the bladed glove again, while Miko Hughes plays the boy whose dreams turn lethal.

Craven reinvented his own franchise seven years before Scream, turning the slasher into a story about scary movies bleeding into the lives of the people who watch them. The redesigned Freddy makeup, cameos from real Hollywood figures, and a closing gag crediting Krueger as himself. Stream Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) online on iFILM.