Nightmare Villains The Entity And Freddy Krueger May Have Similar Agendas, But Here’s How They Differ From Each Other

1994’s Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, also known as A Nightmare on Elm Street: 7, was created as a standalone film and a part of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. The meta-slasher broke continuity, portraying Freddy Krueger as a fictional movie villain who invades the real world and torments the crew involved in making the movies about himself. That was the movie that introduced us to “The Entity,” who made the killings and not Freddy Krueger himself because, according to the movie itself, Freddy was a fictional character.

Set in reality, haunting real movie stars playing themselves

What sets the movie apart from its hit predecessors is that the movie is based on apparent ‘reality’ with various personalities from the movie industry essentially playing themselves. Actress Heather Langenkamp is shown to be compelled by the happenings to reprise her the franchise role as Nancy Thompson. The premise of the movie is that The Entity took the form of mankind’s worst enemy, who back then was Freddy Krueger himself. While the movies were in production, the demonic Entity, was contained within the movie universe, but the wrapping up of the movie compels him to come into our reality. The villain in this movie avoids the corny horror themes from the previous movies’ depictions of Freddy Krueger, which fans sometimes found comedic and introduces us to something to be taken very seriously.

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It could have given rise to its spin-off series, but it sadly did not

Premiering on 14th October 1994, although New Nightmare was acclaimed by critics, it made $19.8 Million at the box office. Produced on a budget of $8 Million, if you look at just the numbers, it is the poorest performing film in the Nightmare franchise. There was a sequel released in 2003, called Freddy vs Jason, which is a crossover with the Friday the 13th film universe, and that follows the same universe as the other Nightmare movies.