New Nightmares Original Wes Craven Cameo Plan Was Horrific

New Nightmare’s Original Wes Craven Cameo Plan Was Horrific

Wes Craven may have scored a critical success with meta slasher New Nightmare, but the horror legend originally planned a dark cameo for himself.

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New Nightmares Original Wes Craven Cameo Plan Was Horrific

New Nightmare may have made slasher villain Freddy Krueger scary for the first time in years, but the Nightmare On Elm Street meta-sequel originally featured a horrifying cameo for series creator Wes Craven. Even before he revitalized the slasher subgenre with the one-two punch of New Nightmare and Scream in the mid-‘90s, genre legend Wes Craven was no stranger to terrifying audiences. The Last House On The Left director had previously reignited interest in slashers with 1984’s A Nightmare On Elm Street.

This influential horror won over viewers with its ingenious twist on the subgenre’s predictable formula. Unlike most of the masked madmen hacking their way through ‘80s horror, dream demon Freddy Krueger stalked teens in the one place they could never escape him – their dreams. Robert Englund’s Freddy soon became a legendary villain on par with Halloween’s Michael Myers thanks to Craven’s clever decision to add an explicitly fantastical element to the villain.

However, by the early 1990s, the character had become tired. After the underwhelming critical performance for Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, Wes Craven returned to the franchise to direct New Nightmare, which saw an evil Entity taking the form of Freddy and attempting to cross over from fiction into reality. Craven filmed a cameo playing a version of himself, but the original plan for his appearance was a horrifying, self-mutilating sequence he wisely opted not to shoot.

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In the New Nightmare viewers got to see, Craven’s cameo takes place when he meets actress Heather Langenkamp (playing a fictionalized version of herself as the film’s final girl). However, in an earlier draft of New Nightmare, instead of meeting Heather in a luxurious mansion in Hollywood, Craven’s cameo was far darker, depicting a stomach-twisting fate for the horror helmer. As explained in the 2010 documentary Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, the original New Nightmare script revealed that Craven was on the run from his own creation Freddy, with the harried director being ferried around in a van by The Hills Have Eyes actor Michael Berryman.

It’s also revealed that Craven is frantically trying to finish the movie’s script, to the point where’s he’s cut off his own eyelids to stay awake. It’s a disturbing idea that the movie lost to keep New Nightmare’s delicate tonal balance just right. That said, it’s a testament to Craven’s talent for horror that he could think up such a gruesome fate for any character – even a version of “himself.”

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