This movie wasn't dead, but it was buried.
The Big Picture Wes Craven left one hell of a film legacy behind him. He is best remembered for starting a number of very subversive horror franchises, namely A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream, which bucked the trends of the genre by blending humor and meta-commentary into the framework of traditional teen horror.
The opening scene sets a great mysterious tone for the movie and establishes the root of its terror. A man dies in a Haitian hospital and his funeral is the subject of a vodou ceremony; as his coffin is lowered into the ground, tears roll down the cheeks of the supposed corpse. The sequence is brimming with atmosphere, with fire and chanting and chaos, evoking a world that poses many questions but doesn’t necessarily offer any answers.
This is very clearly of the Elm Street era for Craven, as he leans heavily into the surreal with his frequent hallucination and nightmare sequences, all while using practical effects that look great if just a tad cheesy. He mostly reigns in the dark humor that often went with the territory during this era, although there are a few laugh-out-loud moments that don’t throw the tone off too horribly.
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