History Film / WesCravensNewNightmare

** Heather reading Hansel and Gretel [[spoiler:echoes how her and Dylan kill the demonic entity at the climax. Extra bonus if you look at the picture, you can see the witch in the drawing is wearing stripped clothing similar to Freddy.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Heather reading Hansel and Gretel [[spoiler:echoes how her and Dylan kill the demonic entity at the climax. Extra bonus if you look at the picture, you can see the witch in the drawing is wearing stripped clothing similar to Freddy.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: Since Heather Langenkamp and John Saxon change into their ''Nightmare'' personas in the fictional world, [[spoiler:this supposedly would mean that Robert Englund changed into Freddy to fight Heather. However, it isn't clear if the Entity [[DemonicPossession possessed Englund]] to become Freddy or if the Entity was able to manifest independently without help]].

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* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: At the end, the UltimateEvil has been defeated and [[SealedEvilInACan Resealed away]] now that Wes has finished the screenplay portraying it. Heather Langenkamp and her son read from the screenplay, which depicts the first scenes of the movie.

* VertigoEffect: Used when the police visit Heather and inform her about Chase's death.

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->'''Wes Craven:''' I think the only way to stop him is to make another movie. Now I swear to you I'm gonna stay by this computer and keep writing until I finish the script, but... when the time comes, you're gonna have to make a choice.\\

''Wes Craven's New Nightmare'' is the seventh ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' film, released in 1994, ten years after the original. It is the only film in the franchise besides the first to be directed by series creator and horror maestro Creator/WesCraven.

In [[RealWorldEpisode the real world]], people behind the ''Elm Street'' films are preparing for a new installment. As this goes on, it becomes apparent that Freddy Krueger has seemingly come over the wall separating reality and fiction, and is now haunting the actress Heather Langenkamp, who played Nancy in the films.

* OverlyLongTongue: "Freddy" attacks Heather with it.

** Freddy's shadow going by the wall is similar to the stair ascending scene from ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}''.
** Freddy's defeat evokes "Literature/HanselAndGretel".
* StockSoundEffects: "Breaking vase" sound can be heard during the onscreen earthquakes.

* AdultFear:
** Although Heather's troubles are being caused by Freddy, they're based on real-world fears that don't actually require a supernatural presence. The doctors can't tell what's wrong with her son, her son wanders off into traffic, she loses her husband in a car accident, she's got a stalker and an earthquake damages her house. Your young son climbing to the very top of a jungle gym will give any parent palpitations, much less him falling off.
** Heather also has to deal with Child Services beginning to consider her an unfit mother, meaning they might take her son away from her.

* SkunkStripe: Heather Langenkamp gets one, much like her character Nancy.

* AmbiguousSituation: Since Heather Langenkamp and John Saxon change into their ''Nightmare'' personas in the fictional world, [[spoiler:this purportedly would mean that Robert Englund changed into Freddy to fight Heather. However, it isn't clear if the Entity [[DemonicPossession possessed Englund]] to become Freddy or if the Entity was able to manifest independently without help]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Heather reading Hansel and Gretel [[spoiler: echoes how her and Dylan kill the demonic entity at the climax. Extra bonus if you look at the picture, you can see the witch in the drawing is wearing stripped clothing similar to Freddy.]]

* JackTheRipoff: The villain of this film is not Freddy but an ancient supernatural entity whose form changes throughout the ages and just so happens to take Freddy's form for the past decade.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Heather reading Hansel and Gretel[[spoiler: echos how her and Dylan kill the demonic entity at the climax. Extra bonus if you look at the picture, you can see the witch in the drawing is wearing stripped clothing similar to Freddy.]]

* MesACrowd: When Dylan is crossing the freeway, he sees a group of Freddys at the other side.

*** Nancy removing Freddy's power through belief is a call back to the climax of the first film. It could be argued that Craven was doing a TakeThat to the Executive Meddling that changed the ending of the first film [[spoiler:as Nancy actually gets rid of "Freddy" for good in this film]].

*** The God-like Freddy appearing as a puppetmaster to a sleepwalker (though in this case, no "strings" are involved)

* CallBack: Many to the first film and to the sequels. This includes the "phone tongue" and a recreation of Tina's death from the first film, the God-like Freddy appearing as a puppetmaster to a sleepwalker (though in this case, no "strings" are involved), the Freddy and Alice morphing head from ''[[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet5TheDreamChild The Dream Child]]'' appearing as a prop at the beginning and Robert Englund quoting the "You are all my children now!" line from ''[[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreetPart2FreddysRevenge Freddy's Revenge]]''.
** Nancy removing Freddy's power through belief is a call back to the climax of the first film. It could be argued that Craven was doing a TakeThat to the Executive Meddling that changed the ending of the first film.

* JackTheRipoff: The entity masquerading as Freddy.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:The movie leaves what happens to Robert Englund ambiguous. The last we see of him he seems to have become possessed by the Freddy Entity. It's unclear if Freddy ultimately DemonicPossession took over his body to fight Nancy or not, and if he did, whether that means that Heather killed Robert.]]

* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Whenever the entity is trapped within a story, it becomes the main antagonist of that story so long as the villain is pure evil. It's heavily implied that the entity once took the form of the witch from ''Hansel and Gretel'' and one point in history. The entity's most dangerous form is Freddy Krueger, due to spending so long trapped in the ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' films that it actually believes it ''is'' Freddy, and consequently seeks to infiltrate the real world.

* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Whenever the entity is trapped within a story, it actually becomes the main antagonist of that story so long as the villain is pure evil. It's heavily implied that the entity once took the form of the witch from ''Hansel and Gretel'' and one point in history. The entity's most dangerous form is Freddy Krueger, due to spending so long trapped in the ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' films that it actually believes it ''is'' Freddy, and consequently seeks to infiltrate the real world.

* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:Julie's "help me" right before Freddy snaps her neck. The palpable fear in her eyes and the sheer desperateness of the request, considering she's asking this to a ''five-year-old kid'', are quite obvious.]]

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Shortly after [[spoiler: Julie's death and Dylan escaping from the hospital to get away from Freddy]], Heather is desperately searching the hospital for him. When Dr. Heffner tells her that Dylan had been sedated, she explains that Dylan is prone to sleepwalking, and is perfectly capable of getting out of the hospital, only to realize that he had probably done just that.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: During his destructive rampage in the real world, Freddy Krueger kills four people, continuously torments Dylan Porter and tries to murder Heather Langenkamp simply because she played Nancy Thompson in the ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' series. Despite this, both Heather and Dylan manage to survive and the entity is destroyed once and for all.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: During his destructive rampage in the real world, Freddy Krueger kills four people, continuously torments Dylan Porter and tries to murder Heather Langenkamp simply because she played Nancy Thompson in the ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' series.
Despite this, both Heather and Dylan manage to survive and the entity is destroyed once and for all.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: There was nothing about an earthquake in the script - until one hit during filming.

* TakeThat: Wes Craven's comment about how sometimes a story gets watered down to become a easier sell or more marketable is a clear jab at Freddy becoming more comical in the later sequels, which Wes has always been very critical of.

* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: Creator/WesCraven attached his name to the title to announce his return to the franchise.

* IdentifyingTheBody: Heather Langenkamp has to identify her husband's corpse after he dies in a mysterious car crash caused by Freddy Krueger. The coroner tries to shield her from the worst of it by only showing her his face, but when Heather pulls down the rest of the cover, the giant slash marks on her husband's chest are shocking enough to cause her to [[VomitIndiscretionShot throw up right on the spot]].