In the town where movies go over schedule and directors go over budget something far more evil is about to go out of control! In a frightening new twist in the terror on Elm street Wes Craven (director of the original film) finds that his dreams have begun to dictate real-life horrors for the stars of the film!
Set in the deep American south Claude Montgomery (Thornton) and his wife Ruby (Dern) head back to their roots in Little Rock Arkansas to reunite with their family and lend support to their Uncle Hazel (Varney) who has been arrested for attempted murder. Here they meet with Ruby's eccentric mother Jewel (Ladd) her sultry sister Rose (Preston) and other members of their outrageous family in an amusing yet poignant story of family feuds mixed with sweeter emotions.
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
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