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I detect a Halloween 3-esque down on Freddy's Revenge, here - particularly strange given the downward spiral into throwaway comedy farce of the succeeding sequels.
Like the original, the second movie was dark... back in 1985, Freddy was still a menacing presence - not least because his actual time onscreen was wisely restrained, and the showstopping body horror and slapstick that was required to fill cinemas for the later films was not necessary.
It isn't a great movie by a long shot, but it is a nicely surprising sequel to the classic original with its grim overtones, doomed male protagonist, dubious gay elements and occasionally surreal special effects.
The idea of New Nightmare was not a bad one - bogey man comes out of dreams, then bogey man comes out of movie - but its execution was limp, with bland performances and an unremarkable script which wasted the premise with few decent shocks and more than a hint of the smug "knowingness" that Craven was about to unleash with his other "clever" horror movie, Scream.
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