Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)'s activity

I love the kind of meta shit that Wes Craven's New Nightmare serves up on a bloody platter, and I'm almost sorry that I couldn't have amnesia and see it without the benefit of knowing what it was about. What a great surprise it would have been. Basically, as the movie we're watching is being written, things start to take a dark turn for scream queen Heather Langenkamp (surely her best performance in the franchise) - a crazed Freddy fan keeps calling, everyone associated with the franchise is having terrible dreams, and her kid is having the worse of all. Then, people start dying. Freddy hasn't been this scary since the original, more a partial presence than a dude in a rubber mask who can be hit and humiliated (like Craven's other monster, about to premiere, Ghostface). Though he's that too, in the third act, when Heather gives in to the "film" and becomes Nancy once more. In New Nightmare, Craven says everything he wants to say about his dream demon, locking in one final bit of lore, and about his experience making horror films. It's darker, but the meta element create the humor we associate with Elm Street. Very cool, ballsy stuff.