A Nightmare on Elm Street 7: Dream Nemesis
 a TRUE FANEDIT byUncanny Antman
It’s about making the Fred Krueger storyline the main focus of the film, and to trim as much of the terrible acting as I could without sacrificing story elements. Sure, Freddy still only gets one kill, but whatcha gonna do? member ratings: |
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INTENTION:
To reduce some of the more cringe-worthy elements of the film, primarily on the acting side of things. Also to trim some moments that blatantly disregard the ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ and ‘Friday the 13th’ histories.
EDITING DETAILS:
A basic ’snip the moments I hate’ and ‘add some deleted scenes’ approach. Some minor rearrangement of scenes, but the film mostly plays out in the same sequence as the original version.
I just hope people enjoy it. …And keep an ear open for several songs added to the film…they were all chosen due to their titles being in keeping with the themes of the A Nightmare on Elm Street series.
CUTLIST:
- Replaced opening score to remove Jason theme.
- Removed Freddy explaining entire plot after previous kills montage.
- New opening scene, Blake being unsuccessfully attacked by Freddy.
- New opening credits.
- Credits lead into long version of Crystal Lake counsellor leaving to go skinny-dipping.
- Removed morphing victims talking to Jason.
- Removed Mrs Voorhees being revealed as Freddy, “Freddy vs. Jason” title screen, and Jason walking down Elm Street.
- Altered two shots of Lori to stop her from glancing towards the film crew.
- Removed Kia asking Lori and Gibb if she should get a nose job.
- Removed Kia and Lori’s exposition about Will, Lori’s “true love”.
- Removed Kia telling Lori to go upstairs with Blake.
- Inserted deleted scene with Trey complaining about dirty sheets.
- Removed exposition about Lori’s dead mother.
- Removed crappy body double for Gibb in the shower.
- Removed wide shot of Jason stabbing Trey. He’s clearly stabbing the bed far away from where Trey really is.
- Removed the first of Gibb’s two screams when she finds Trey.
- Removed Stubbs talking to Lori at the police station, and Lori trying to remember Freddy’s name. Cut to Westin Hills prior to Lori’s nightmare.
- Removed the deaths of Blake and his father.
- Removed all the back-story about Will seeing Lori’s father kill her mother.
- When Freddy jumps out at Lori in her nightmare, he comes from right next to her where she should be able to see him off-screen. Altered Freddy so that he fades into the shot, literally appearing right in front of her. Also removed Lori’s terrible “relieved” acting after waking up.
- Cut back to Westin Hills again, but removed Mark talking about missing his family, and Will talking again about Lori’s father.
- Added scene of Lori’s father picking her up from the police station.
- Removed Lori meeting up with Gibb and Kia outside school.
- Added deleted scene of Gibb screaming at people to stop staring at her, and Will and Mark sneaking into school.
- Removed Kia referring to Linderman as a humping dog.
- Added Freddy’s theme to the scene where Lori describes him to Kia and Gibb.
- Removed Will berating Mark, “You’re scaring her.”
- Removed Lori in the infirmary, and Kia’s nose job nightmare.
- Inserted deleted scene of Principal Shaye talking to Will and Mark.
- Inserted deleted scene of Kia and Gibb picking up Lori to go to the rave.
- Inserted deleted scene of the girls driving to the rave.
- Removed Will starting to tell Lori about why he was in Westin Hills.
- Altered the colours during Gibb’s nightmare so that it looks dry and washed out instead of bright red.
- Erased visible hand in frame when Gibb falls backwards off of walkway.
- Trimmed the ‘head-twist’ kill so that Jason doesn’t poke the guy to make him fall over, and to show as little of the crummy effect as possible.
- Trimmed some shots and altered others to minimize the chunky fire-suit Jason in the cornfield.
- Removed the shot of Shack laughing with his mouth closed, clearly holding stage blood in his mouth.
- Removed the raver throwing cups of beer on Jason.
- Removed Kia and Lori’s crummy “I can’t believe Gibb is dead” moment. Now, Kia simply hugs Lori goodbye.
- Removed Lori arguing with, then sneaking out on her father. She doesn’t go home at all.
- Removed Freddy’s blatant exposition during Mark’s nightmare.
- Removed Freddy’s line, “I’ll have to pass that message myself, won’t I?” It looks badly looped.
- Slightly restructured Lori and Will witnessing Mark’s death.
- Removed Lori saying, “Freddy died by fire, Jason by water…how can we use that?”
- Removed shot of Freddy’s ear morphing into maggots.
- Removed Kia’s terribly delivered line, “We’re not safe awake or asleep.”
- Replaced shots of group looking up hypnocil on the internet. The pages don’t look real, and Linderman takes a stupidly long time to notice the huge text at the top of the page regarding FDA approval.
- Removed Freeburg telling Linderman to stop and smoke a joint.
- Removed Freddy-caterpillar squeezing down Freeburg’s throat.
- Removed Freeburg/Freddy telling Will that he’ll, “…handle this, bitch.”
- Removed Freddy’s line to Jason, “These are my children, Jason. Go back where you belong!” Also removed same line being echoed as Jason goes to sleep.
- Cut to Jason dreaming about ruined house before Mrs Voorhees berates him.
- Altered Freddy/Jason fight from being bright red.
- Removed Freddy making a wanking motion to Jason.
- Removed Jason’s supposed fear of water, and Freddy getting into young Jason’s head.
- De-saturated scenes at old Camp Crystal Lake.
- Removed Freddy as camp counsellor.
- Removed group walking off in the opposite direction of Crystal Lake.
- Removed section of Lori’s nightmare dealing with her mother and father.
- Removed Freddy’s line, “Welcome to my world, bitch.”
- Removed shot of Will carrying Lori where her arm stays upright even when he lets go of it.
- Trimmed obvious shots of rubber arm when Lori is burnt.
- Removed shot of Linderman with obviously looped line.
- Removed long pan around Linderman bleeding to death.
- Removed Freddy’s indecision over who to kill between Lori and Kia.
- Removed most of Kia’s taunting of Freddy. No “Christmas sweater” or “butter knives” remarks.
- Removed Lori’s terrible rant about how Freddy has ruined their pasts.
- Removed Freddy falling and getting caught up on swinging mechanism. (This means he just pops up next to Jason, but I figured it was acceptable, seeing as he magically appeared on top of the construction site in the first place. Freddy has always had some limited power in the real world.)
- Removed small section of Jason hacking away at Freddy. Freddy’s spurting wounds here are terrible…even in the context of this film, where almost all the blood spurts are ridiculously comedic.
- Altered shot of Freddy slicing Jason’s fingers slightly to make it look like they actually go anywhere near his hand, unlike the original shot.
- Removed Lori screaming, “Welcome to my world, bitch!”
- Sped up slow motion shot of Lori swinging machete. (The slo-mo is terrible, and obvious that she was also acting in slo-mo.)
- Added proper Freddy face to dummy head as it is sliced off.
- Repositioned following shot of Lori to be higher in the frame.
- Removed shot of Jason closing his eyes before sinking. He just had his eyes stabbed out a minute earlier.
- Replaced Jason-emerging-from-lake ending with “Two Months Later” ending.
- Removed Lori asking Will about his wound, and speaking of her sympathy for Jason. (Which thankfully also removes a bit of Will’s bad acting.)
- Removed Lori screaming, “What’s wrong with you?” and shot of zoom in to Lori’s face.
- Shortened end credits.
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This is one hell of an editing job you have going on here! Some scenes I dont remember even being in the extras on the dvds. The intro is PERFECT, I was thoroughly impressed at everything in the first 5-10 mins, great beginning credits you made.
If there is any criticism I have, its over Jason, and that is on 2 different levels. 1st, hes there, it seems with a little more editing it mightve been possible to totally remove him, though that would leave more like a “Freddy’s Nightmares” episode more than a movie. Or 2, Jason being in the movie as is, I dont get why, by the way its edited, Im under the impression Freddy controls Jason more than hes just there to do a job, I just find the editing out of some of the story on the jason side makes me confused about why he’s there in the 1st place.
Either way, The edit is still amazing, and definitely aimed more towards my favorite indestructible demon Freddy, which all in all makes me happy
Review by paindrain — March 23, 2008 @ 3:21 pm
Loved the edit & is a massive improvement over the original. Being a Freddy fan I really enjoyed that this edit felt more like a freddy movie as apose to Jason. There are some criticisms however like keeping the Freddy playing pinball with Jason or the stoner seeing the catapillar Freddy, those were the kinda thing’s I’d like to not see in a Freddy movie & is one of the thing’s I hated about the NOES sequels. However Your editing is absolutley outstanding, I couldn’t find a fault, your a genius. The way you contructed the beggining credits and the end credits felt so proffessional that I could eaily fool someone into thinking this was actually a NOES sequel. You captured that 80’s Freddy movie feel & it imediatly made me feel at home. Great work, can’t say anough, keep it up. I’m just about to download the Terminator 3 edit of yours right now, after having seen your first edit i’m really looking forward to seeing how well you handle the mockery that is Terminator 3. Good luck with further edits dude & keep em up!.
Review by MOS2009 — March 25, 2008 @ 6:08 am
Thanks for the feedback, paindrain. Much appreciated.
While one of my goals was to pare Jason’s involvement in the plot, I never considered removing him altogether. Not only would there be little story left, but Freddy only makes one kill in the film as it stands, and the climax would be impossible without Jason.
Even though I trimmed all of Freddy’s early exposition on his plan, I did make conscious effort to leave enough of the exposition in to explain Jason’s function in the story. At one point, Will theorises that Freddy brought Jason back to “spread the fear” which couples with Freddy-as-Pamela Vorhees’ lines about Jason not knowing when to stop. I wanted Jason’s involvement to be explained over the course of the story, rather than in the first two minutes of the film, as the original version does.
Be that as it may, I’m stoked you enjoyed it. Thanks again for the review.
Review by Uncanny Antman — March 25, 2008 @ 2:22 pm
Cheers for the love, MOS2009.
I can sympathise with you not liking the pinball bit. I actually went back and forth on that one. Chalk it up to personal preference. The caterpillar was kinda needed to show how Freeburg got taken over by Freddy, and I kinda liked that it reminded me of the Freddy-snake in NoES3.
I’m glad you picked up on my attempts to make it feel more like an ’80s Freddy flick. I knew I could only manage that to a certain degree, but I gave it a shot. (I feel like it worked for at least the first half of the film.)
I hope you enjoy my T3 edit. I’d love to hear what you think of it.
Review by Uncanny Antman — March 27, 2008 @ 4:18 pm
Uncanny Antman’s at it again! Who does this guy think he is?! As a movie-goer I like my movies (especially my sequels) mediocre. Then UA mucks that up time and again by turning said mediocre movies into much better, more enjoyable films. Seriously though, this is another ace editing job by UA. A Nightmare on Elm Street is one of my all-time favorite horror movies, even with the sequels being as hit-and-miss as they were. I remember when Freddy vs. Jason came out and people were so disappointed by it. They’d say stuff like “I’ve wanted to see this movie for twenty years!” Truthfully, I never wanted to see this movie. Sure, when I was 10, my friends and I would talk about how cool it would be to see Freddy Krueger battle Jason Voorhees. But, I was 10 and my taste in movies back then kinda sucked. And, it was a cool idea to talk about with your friends but none of us ever truly believed it would make a good movie. And, we were right. Freddy vs. Jason was a schizo film that never quite figured out whether or not it was a NoES film or an F13 film. Who’s the hero? Who’s the villain? What the Hell is going on? Then they fight. The End. Thankfully, UA has stepped in and done a commendable job trying to rectify that. Of course, it will never be perfect. He only has so much he can work with. But, I can honestly say, this felt like a NoES sequel, just with Jason involved in the plotline. Kind of like F13 7 where it was a F13 sequel, but they just threw Carrie into the mix … errr … Tina Shepard. Throughout the film, it feels like Freddy’s always the main threat. I like the fact that it feels like Freddy is physically controlling Jason because a.) it’s a subtle nod to NoES 2 and b.) it makes it Freddy’s film. It’s almost like he actually does get more than one kill. Aside from turning this into an NoES film 90% of the time, UA has also done a perfect editing job on cutting crap out. This movie flowed so much better this time around and it felt exactly as it should have felt. In other words, I actually had to come on here afterwards and read his list of alterations just to remember what he cut. It was that natural. It was like “Oh yeah, that crap was in there before. I forgot.” This is the kind of edit that you show people who’ve never seen the film in hopes that their initial opinion would be more positive than yours was. If I had a way to professionally print disc labels, I would toss my official FvJ disc and replace it with the NoES 7 disc once UA gets around to releasing it. This is the fifth edit of UA’s that I’ve watched and the guy’s on fire! 5 for 5! Now, stop it already and make something that sucks. Up Next: Dark Angel: Children of the Revolution.
Review by Kolpitz — June 26, 2008 @ 7:09 pm
Good work. But it wolud be better if you added this scenes, because I think the movie is too short and is inlogical (why Will is in Westin Hill?). You must add this:
- Kia talks Lori about Will and her first love)
- come back all motive about Will and murder mother’s Lori
- add scene where Lori exam her house door (extended scene)
- add scene where whrer Mark sees his brothers on monitor (extended scene)
- add scene whereFreddy’s kick Joasn balls
- add scene where Lori says that she doesn’t leave until Freddy die (the, you must add motive mother of Lori)
Please, add at least part of this scenes, ok? THANK YOU VERY MUCH:)
P.S: And if you want, add this dialog on the end of movie :WELCOME IN MY WORLD BITCH!
Review by Zagadka — July 4, 2008 @ 11:10 pm
Everyone of course is entitled to their own opinion but I must say, I for one am glad you removed the CHEESE ass line “welcome to my world bitch!”. The one thing that REALLY pissed me off about the original cut of this movie was that the writers, director or whomever else was guilty of putting this movie together… was the fact that when they “integrated the two worlds” of Elm St. and 13th respectively(?)… they seemingly took the “type of teens” from the 13th series. IMHO the teens and characters were always much stronger and more fleshed out in the Nightmare series which always made atleast this viewer, much more involved in what was going on. Which was my big problem with “Final Nightmare” because I personally felt, aside from any other problems that plagued that flick, was that the characters were by far the weakest in the series… again only inho. To the point, there wasnt ALOT you could do to strengthen the cores of these characters since you can’t completely rewrite the script, however by removing a lot of the “crap” dialog… as for example the aforementioned “Welcome to…” line. You’ve atleast made the characters a bit more respectable, and not TOTALLY moronic. The scene where the girls are waiting for the guys and she talks about Will or not in the instance of your cut, is another fine example. All in all, a welcome edit and the new addition to my library when I want to see Freddy take on Jason. I do own the original but usually find myself scene jumping a lot when I do watch it. But I do have to say I will probably be goin from beginning to end a lot more often now that the entire movie isn’t cheesy dialog, cheesy one liners… bad character development…. and NOW with a MUCH better ending. No disrespect to Jason…(I’ll leave that for the latter half of the 13th franchise LOL) but I was always an Elm St fanatic and you’ve brought respectability back to the Krueger character. I touched upon it already but I want to part with… I love this ending much much more. Great Job my friend.
Review by aicdragon — September 5, 2008 @ 6:19 am
Great edit. I watched this edit first then watched Jason vs Freddy right after and your edit was alot better.
Review by rmania — May 25, 2009 @ 4:42 pm
watched this one some time ago, just wanted to post that i really enjoyed this edit – especially using the alternate ending improves the freddy focus, the use of dream on at the beginning was hilariously good – at first i was wondering why you chose this song since i forgot the chorus and when the chorus started i had to laugh so hard, really well done.
the title font further enhances the nightmare on elm street feel and reminds me of dream warriors, where they used this jarring green against the red font, something no one today would do.
all those small cuts really improved the movie which was already fine for me in the first place since i never saw this as a serious Noes movie but more of a fun movie in between, great job
9/10
Review by Sunarep — October 24, 2009 @ 10:05 pm
Sorry, but this one left me truly unimpressed. The original was over-the-top funny and this one removed the fun for a more serious version that was so much weaker in my opinion.
Review by r8s8fr8 — November 27, 2009 @ 8:13 pm
On of the first fanedits I was really happy with. Now, I really like the original Freddy vs. Jason; It’s fun, doesn’t take itself too seriously, and is just generally great fanservice. However, it is in a way a guilty pleasure because there is a lot to dislike about the film, i.e. terrible dialogue, the worst human cast of both franchises, etc. This fanedit actually fixes a lot of the faults of the original, so that it’s no longer a guilty pleasure and I can legitimately like the movie. I liked the addition of the dream quote and new credits. The only way it would have been better is if they were done better in terms of quality. They’re done pretty simply, so if there was a person with experience with After Effects or something and made cooler intro credits and end credits that would have been more awesome. Oh, and the Dream Master logo could have used a better design too, but I’m assuming that could have been done had Uncanny Antman asked someone with photoshop talent to do it or something instead of tackling the project himself.
I really liked a lot of the editing choices.
– The new intro is awesome, but I having Blake show up at Lori’s house later is a little strange because that’s the last we see of him. It’s a loose end since his death is cut from the film.
– A lot of the terrible line deliveries are gone, Kia and Lori are less annoying, Kia’s use of the word “faggot” is thankfully gone.
– A lot of dumb exposition is gone. The film doesn’t treat the audience like they’re stupid.
– I thought Gibb’s nightmare was a little too washed out and altered. A little red would have been fine, and in fact I think it would have been a little scarier. The boiler room in the original Nightmare wasn’t red, but subsequent films did so and if this edit was trying to make this film feel more in line with the sequels keeping the boiler room red JUST A LITTLE would have been cool.
– Glad Lori doesn’t yell “Welcome to my world!” anymore, that was laughable. And it makes the decapitation much more impressive and surprising, just like it is to Freddy.
– Jason’s lame fear of water is gone
– I do have to say that I disliked replacing the original ending with the deleted scene ending, the one with Lori and Will. Like I said earlier, Freddy vs. Jason has the worst human cast of both franchises, so ending with those characters is kinda, “…ehhh” BUT, since this edit is trying to be a purely Nightmare on Elm Street movie it’s acceptable.
I could go on and on about how great the cut is. I can’t say I have much reason to ever go back and watch the original. This cut is great.
Review by asocialjester — June 12, 2010 @ 8:57 pm