On October 14, 1994 “Wes Craven's New Nightmare” was released in theaters! Written and directed by Wes Craven. It’s a standalone film and the seventh installment in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. It is not part of the same continuity as previous films, instead portraying Freddy Krueger as a fictional movie villain who invades the real world and haunts the cast and crew involved in the making of the films about him. In the film, Freddy is depicted as closer to what Craven originally int