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BM - The original postmodern, self-referential slasher-satire, and (with the eventual exception of Cabin in the Woods) my favorite of its type. Despite its ability to make fun of itself and the Elm Street series it's ostensibly part of, this also represents a welcome return to form for Freddy Krueger after the Elm Street sequels turned him more and more campy, and thereby less and less scary. Heather Langenkamp is great as both herself and her character from the films; also great as themselves are the likes of Bob Shaye, Wes Craven, and of course, Robert Englund in his own double-role. This is just so creative without being in any way smug about its own cleverness, and definitely ends up being one of the best, and certainly most intelligent entries in the franchise.

Genny - Aw yeah Freddy's back with a brand New Nightmare (presented by Wes Craven) that's more of a meta mind fuck than anything else. I'm okay with this. It's a clever way to refresh a series that was starting to run out its welcome while still paying homage to a time when the Nightmare franchise wasn't so stale, worthy of a 7.6/10

Johnbobb - Conceptually, this is one of Wes Craven's coolest ideas. He's not the only person to ever do the "fictional creature comes into the real world" trope by any stretch, but this is definitely one of the most intriguing examples of it. Freddy's reality-bending abilities have always been a defining aspect of the character, so twisting not just dreams but fiction as well into reality is just such a cool move. In execution, it could use a little work, falling victim to some of the cheesiness associated with both Freddy and 90s horror, but overall is just such a neat idea that it's easy to forgive some of its flaws.

JONA - Snake was patiently awaiting all the writeups for his board project. He checked his e-mail and he received writeups from scarlet and Genny. He decided to post on Discord confirming that he received them and to give a notification to others to send their writeups in. Snake posted Got both scarlet and Genny's. @gauntlet Just to check in and confirm again, I have Inviso, Karo, John, Genny, and Scarlet atm. And I'm waiting on charon, KBM, and JONA. JONA was not at all prepared to hand in his writeups. As of that notification, he only wrote passages for 12 of them and even he knew that they were simple. JONA started to do more writeups but then wondered if he should do a wacky writeup for Wes Cravens New Nightmare. He was unsure about his feelings on the movie and its meta-ness. He felt it helped made the movie feel fresh and that it gave some insight into the minds of people who worked on horror films. On the other hand, the meta-ness made the threat of Freddy was lessened due to it and it made the film somewhat alienating, due to him not knowing the franchise well. Then, JONA knew what his writeup should be like. He started typing, Snake was patiently awaiting

JONA: Alright, this writeup will do.

is what JONA originally wrote down to conclude his writeup, but then he decided to end his dumb writeup with this sentence right here.
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