My review I wrote for 8up... A Nightmare On Elm Street - 2.5/10 - High expectations will get you nowhere with most horror remakes, Nightmare is no exception. With Jackie Earle Haley stepping up to the plate to attempt to fill Robert Englund's shoes in the role of Freddy, I remained relatively positive until I saw the final outcome mainly due to Haley's exceptionally powerful performance as the creepy child molesting pervert from 'Little Children'. Unfortunately he didn't have much to work with content wise and especially considering he was working with a first time director. Freddy lacks his usual wit, looks like a deformed blow up clown doll, and the set is completely lacking in the signature intricate pieces the series usually builds it's stories around. All in all, this is down there with 'Wolfman' as being one of the most disappointing horror remakes of 2010, and maybe this century. Skip it. Skip it. Skip it. Oh and I'm not even going to tackle the plot holes... oh my god, ouch. Stand by as I'm sure there will be more disappointing remakes to come.
Thanks for the heads up; I’ll wait until it comes out on DVD No one could fill the role of Freddie more brilliantly than Robert Englund H
Although I haven't seen the remake I'd have to imagine it is difficult to recast such an iconic charachter. Friday the 13th, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, it can be relatively easy to cast that slasher because they were all mute. We can go down to Home Depot and grab one of the day laborers out front, make sure he can take direction in English, slap a mask on him and we're done. Freddie Krueger has lines and delivery to work with on top of the physical demands of the work. And you can't really change actors in the middle of the series. Peace Out, Rev J
the new one is not as good as the old one for me i would say the old one was alot better because it was more real if you no what i am saying it looked more real. i hope you no what i am saying like. i am not going to be getting it on dvd
Yep... I just downloaded it illegally because i heard it was bad... but I was expecting it to be at least slightly interesting. I actually thought the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre was alright... it was grisly and gross, but at least it looked good and was generally a well-made film... and there were some great new characters in it as well. The new Friday The 13th wasn't half-bad either... it was never such a great series, but this one was actually kinda well done. But this wasn't AT ALL interesting. It wasn't scary, Freddy kept saying really dumb, cliched things, he wasn't scary, nothing interesting or new happened, the kids he killed were boring, the dream sequences had zero originality, fun, or scares. It was actually more tedious than the copy/remake of Psycho...
