Comments on: A Nightmare on Elm Street 7: Dream Nemesis

By: TMBTM

TMBTM — Sat, 28 May 2011 21:59:20 +0000

I do not remember the original movie enough to spot all the cuts (and I’m too lazy to read the cutlist, lol) but I must say that, even with my poor english understanding and no subtitles, the story was all very clear to me. All we really need to know is shown or told, IMO.
This movie now feels like a true ANOES movie with Jason as a “guest star”. Well done.
That said, I also feel that the series should have ended with ANOES part 3 Dream Warriors.
They went over the top in a good way in this movie, after that it was a bit too much. Freddy was no more scary, and to be fair not very funny either.
So even if this fanedit achieves to feel like a ANOES movie, it is still an average ANOES movie, IMO. But it’s not the faneditor’s fault. It’s just me bitching against what happened to Freddy’s character during all those years… Uncanny Antman did a masterful job.

PS: I also feel that the last scene was not needed. I understand why it was used though, as it is in the mood of the ANOES series a lot.

By: asocialjester

asocialjester — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:57:14 +0000

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.

By: r8s8fr8

r8s8fr8 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:13:12 +0000

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.

By: Sunarep

Sunarep — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:05:26 +0000

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

By: rmania

rmania — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:42:15 +0000

Great edit. I watched this edit first then watched Jason vs Freddy right after and your edit was alot better.

By: aicdragon

aicdragon — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:19:47 +0000

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.

By: Zagadka

Zagadka — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:10:51 +0000

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!

By: Kolpitz

Kolpitz — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:09:27 +0000

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.

By: Uncanny Antman

Uncanny Antman — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:18:27 +0000

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.

By: Uncanny Antman

Uncanny Antman — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:22:02 +0000

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.

By: MOS2009

MOS2009 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:08:21 +0000

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!.

By: paindrain

paindrain — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:21:13 +0000

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