Wes Craven: Every Movie Ranked Worst To Best
3. New Nightmare
Wes Craven really bloody loves taking a look at the genre from the outside in doesn't he? In this version of A Nightmare On Elm street, the director decided to make the original movie exist within New Nightmare's world as a popular horror film, with himself and his actors all playing themselves, establishing a link to our own society when Freddy was taking the world by storm.
But the legend of Fred is all but dead when he jumps from fiction to reality and begins to hunt those that made films about him. It's a living homage to the original movie that features all the same talent in some weird reality-based shrine to all things Krueger, even replicating some of the most famous set pieces to great effect.
Craven knows what he's doing with this sort of narrative, and it works wickedly well. If anything was like the living embodiement of Tenacious D's Tribute, this film would be it...