Amazon.co.uk Review
By this time, A Nightmare on Elm Street series was definitely flagging and no amount of overkill style from promising Finnish director Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2) covers for the fact that the screenplay (partially by LA Confidential Oscar winner Brian Helgeland) is a hash of thrown-together scenes and ideas with no coherence whatsoever. The pizza-faced child murderer returns from that limbo he inhabits between sequels and kills off all the characters left over from Part Three (the wonderfully named Tuesday Knight briefly takes over Patricia Arquette's role) before going after a new batch of uncharacterised, blatantly only-in-this-film-to-be-killed teens. The special effects highlight is a girl turning into a giant cockroach, though Harlin also includes more imaginative recurring and repeating nightmares. Lisa Wilcox is the new heroine, and Robert Englund finally gets top billing. --Kim Newman
Customer Reviews:
A DECENT ENTRY, BUT NOT SPECTACULAR.......2007-08-06
Alice Johnson, (Lisa Wilcox) is having extreme dreams, and her brother Rick, (Andras Jones) and his girlfriend Kristen Parker, (Tuesday Knight) are worried for her. When her friends Roland Kincaid, (Ken Sagoes) and Joey Crusel, (Rodney Eastman) are killed, Alice thinks it's Freddy Kruegar, (Robert Englund) and informs the group about his legend. When her friends start dying in rapid succession, Alice comes to term with the fact that she alone can stop Freddy's rampage.
The Good News: As one of the better entries in the series, this one features some great stuff. One of the new things is suspense. Normally, these films are used to having the situation the characters are trapped in drive the horror. In here, the horror also comes with the jumps in the film. Quite often, Freddy jumps into view behind someone or transforms from a person we don't expect him to. It's quite scary at times, even with all the dream sequences. Those were undoubtedly the highlights, as each one was a joy to watch. It really is hard to pick just one as a favorite, as they all have something different to offer, and that is quite rare in a film like this, but a true classic is the one which features "death by fire" sequence. It features a lot of ingenious special effects, a great gory death, and several suspense scenes that make it a great scene. All the other dream sequences are great, and they really are great to watch. Also worthy of mention is the opening sequence, which features a healthy amount of suspense and an overall fantastic sequence that brings Freddy back into the action. Also, strangely, the jokes in here worked for me. Most don't like the film because the humor started taking over from this point in the series, in here they come out funny.
The Bad News: It really didn't bother me with the amount of humor in this one, but it almost completely supersedes the horror in the series. It's a complaint that some have against the film, and I can see how it can happen. There are a lot more jokes in here, mainly due to Freddy's increased screen-time compared to the original sequels. Also, it's got a pretty standard issue plot for a sequel. It's pretty much the exact same as the first one, only with new actors and dream sequences. With the way the series was going, a new approach was definitely possible to do.
The Final Verdict: A couple of misstates should not deter you away from watching this one if you're a fan of the series. It features great moments in the series, and, love it or not, it features the start of the joking Freddy. Fans of the series will like this one, and those who enjoy the kind of films will want to see this one.
Seven, eight, better stay up late.......2007-05-17
Wow, I was very impressed with this entry into the series. I thought it might be tame in the gore department considering it only rated 15 (the previous three movies were all rated 18) but it's actually just as gorey as the first three movies - if not more so.
The Nightmare On Elm Street series just keeps gettin beter and better, this movie was very suspencefull and gorey and the deaths - in usual Freddy style - were inventive. I think that this is the scariest of the four movies that I've seen. There are a few funny parts in the movie as it is partly a black comedy but it still manages to be suspenceful and scary.
Horrifc and very SCARY!!!.......2007-04-14
Scared the crap out of me
and put me off pizza,
Lisa Wilcox and Robert Englund
were fantastic!!!!
This is one of
the best effects and
films ever made!
You think part 3
was good???
Well you aint seen nothing yet!
One, Two Freddies Gonna Kill you!!!.......2007-03-29
The 4th best in the series, but still good!
I love the song,
one two freddies coming for you
three four better look that door
five six grab your crucifix
seven eight betta stay up late
nine ten never sleep again!
The stroyline itself was great!
the acting was magnigicent
and the effects were so real!
Feel freddy kill you inside,
i love these and this is
one of the best ones!
Not bad, just not great........2005-04-15
The fourth installment of the Elm Street series is merely ok. Freddy Krueger again returns to terrorize the children of elm street. However this time Krueger comes up against Alice, a young girl with a vast knowledge of dreams and how to use them to her advantage. Could Freddy finally have met his match? By this stage in the series, alot of the real scare value had gone out of the films, as Freddy's status as an anti-hero had grown and as such, this one tends to rely upon gross-out scenes and gore to try and maintain shock value and scares(the infamous pizza scene and a scene involving cockroaches are perticually nasty!) That said however, director Renny Harlin keeps the movie fast paced, with enough action and will please fans of the series.
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