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A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET REVIEW: A New, New Nightmare?

Once Wes Craven’s monster managed to get seven movies in a decade, it seemed pretty obvious that Freddy was feeling the franchise fatigue… not a even a bout with Jason Voorhees could get him back in the limelight with his own solo movie. Until the Hollywood cure-all was applied to Craven’s dream demon: reboot!

So now, Watchmen’s Jackie Earle Haley dons Englund’s signature fedora, claws and stylish Christmas sweater to terrorize the dreams of the sexy teenagers of Elm Street in a rehash of Freddy’s origin story. The only problem is that this Nightmare reboot seems more pre-occupied with being a shot-for-shot remake of Wes Craven’s original than it is at just being a good scary movie. The result is a bit bland, leaving us wondering if this movie is made for people who LOVE the original so much they’ll watch any Freddy? Or is it for people who have no idea how scary Freddy should be?

~Matt + Nat

Posted on Sunday, May 2nd, 2010 at 3:41 am under the categoies of 80's, Horror, reboot, remake, Supernatural. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

6 Responses to “A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET REVIEW: A New, New Nightmare?”

  1. Heath Says:
    May 4th, 2010 at 10:32 am

    This movie fraking sucked. Plain and simple. It wasn’t scary or anything remotely chilling. It was just boring!!! Boring, boring, BORING! F#%$ YOU MICHAEL BAY!!!!!!

  2. JJ Says:
    May 6th, 2010 at 3:15 pm

    Hey all!

    I was really hoping to see this movie. I grew up loving the Freddy movies. I haven’t seen it yet. I will probably wait until the DVD or netflix after this review. Damn you Platnum Dunes for ruining another 80s horror gem!! Lets hope they stay away from Child’s Play. I thought I had read somewhere that a Hellraiser remake idea was being tossed around. I could be wrong.

    Other movies that need a remake: Part of me wants a remake to Killer Klowns from Outer Space. That movie terrified me as a kid, but I still watched and loved it. I’d kinda like to see what a current one would look like, but then again it was so cheezy I think it deserves to stay in the 80s. damn it, now I’ve got the theme song stuck in my head.

  3. christian Says:
    May 11th, 2010 at 12:17 am

    i liked it i was awsome

  4. gilad Says:
    May 19th, 2010 at 7:39 am

    Great review! I realy loved the new YGN animations.

  5. Geeks Says:
    May 24th, 2010 at 12:13 am

    @Gilad: Glad to hear it!! We’ve gotta thank Izzy over at http://RageCG.com for being to awesome and whipping up those sweet YGN animations!

    ~M@

  6. Jinx Says:
    May 25th, 2010 at 12:08 pm

    I have to agree about the Freddy Extendo-arms(tm) – they were a bit silly back in the day. A bit too Inspector Gadget.

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