 Why did Wes Craven's New Nightmare fail to revive the series? It's kind of interesting because Wes Craven started this big phenomenon. Nightmare in Elm Street, man. And he also killed it, inadvertently at the same time. The least grossing of all the Nightmare films too. It's not scary. Don't make it boring and bland and kind of just flat. Don't really feel like dream sequences. It's not only the New Nightmare, it's the No Nightmare. There's no Nightmares really in this movie. They're not real claws and you don't suspend your disbelief at all in this movie. The kills are boring and unimaginative. It's so anti-climactic to reboot the series, to make it more scary. Yeah. To make Freddy more serious and failed completely at all those things. On every level.