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A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)
Directed By: Samuel Bayer
The Story
The story is pretty much the same as the original Nightmare On Elm Street (well it is a remake). The local children of Elm street are hunted down in their dreams and killed. And If you die in your sleep, then you die in real life. The problem here is, everything that made the original a horror classic has been ripped apart. The story dives right into Freddy Krueger's back story - which i hated. It also try's to be to serious, taking away the campness and humour of the original Nightmare On Elm Street. The deaths are weak, and the story is very poorly written.
The Cast
The cast are awful, and the charcters are awful, i truly didn't care about any of them. I hated Jackie Earle Haley as Freddie Krueger. I hated his look, i hated the fact he talked so much, and i hated the seriousness of the character. The rest of the cast are your average teenage actors what you'd expect to see in a horror movie these day's. You know the one's i mean right?. Your typical dull, screaming, and annoying teenagers that would give Freddie Krueger nightmares.
Movie Highlight
My movie hightlight would have to be the opening 10 minutes of the movie. Its set at the local diner were we meet a young teenager called Dean. Straight away we find out Dean is struggling with nightmares and he's terrified of falling asleep incase Freddie gets to him. Straight away, this character is the only character in the entire film were i got a sense of fear. The scene itself was very frightening, and when Dean is murdered, its done so in very violent fashion. This scene really captured the horror of Krueger. The setting was great, the horror was there, and the scene was very intense, infact - the movie felt like i was watching A Nightmare On Elm Street. Unfortunately the title hits our screen and all of the above it taken away. What follows is cheap scares, a poorly written story, and a total rip off of what Elm street is all about.
Verdict
Overall this movie is a pathetic attemp of a Elm Street remake. Everything that made the original the horror classic it is has been ripped apart. -- Why change something that worked so well?. Honestly ime sick of writing about this garbage now.
Directed By: Samuel Bayer
The Story
The story is pretty much the same as the original Nightmare On Elm Street (well it is a remake). The local children of Elm street are hunted down in their dreams and killed. And If you die in your sleep, then you die in real life. The problem here is, everything that made the original a horror classic has been ripped apart. The story dives right into Freddy Krueger's back story - which i hated. It also try's to be to serious, taking away the campness and humour of the original Nightmare On Elm Street. The deaths are weak, and the story is very poorly written.
The Cast
The cast are awful, and the charcters are awful, i truly didn't care about any of them. I hated Jackie Earle Haley as Freddie Krueger. I hated his look, i hated the fact he talked so much, and i hated the seriousness of the character. The rest of the cast are your average teenage actors what you'd expect to see in a horror movie these day's. You know the one's i mean right?. Your typical dull, screaming, and annoying teenagers that would give Freddie Krueger nightmares.
Movie Trivia: Johnny Depp accompanied his friend Jackie Earle Haley to auditions for A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). Instead of Haley being chosen for a role, it was Depp who was spotted by director Wes Craven, who asked him if he would like to read for a part. Depp got a part in that film, Haley didn't, but Haley would go on to play Freddy in this remake 26 years later.
For his big scene in the opening sequence, Kellan Lutz chose not to sleep for a few days to get himself into character.
Wes Craven was reportedly not approached about this remake. He has however publicly spoken against it.
For his big scene in the opening sequence, Kellan Lutz chose not to sleep for a few days to get himself into character.
Wes Craven was reportedly not approached about this remake. He has however publicly spoken against it.
My movie hightlight would have to be the opening 10 minutes of the movie. Its set at the local diner were we meet a young teenager called Dean. Straight away we find out Dean is struggling with nightmares and he's terrified of falling asleep incase Freddie gets to him. Straight away, this character is the only character in the entire film were i got a sense of fear. The scene itself was very frightening, and when Dean is murdered, its done so in very violent fashion. This scene really captured the horror of Krueger. The setting was great, the horror was there, and the scene was very intense, infact - the movie felt like i was watching A Nightmare On Elm Street. Unfortunately the title hits our screen and all of the above it taken away. What follows is cheap scares, a poorly written story, and a total rip off of what Elm street is all about.
Verdict
Overall this movie is a pathetic attemp of a Elm Street remake. Everything that made the original the horror classic it is has been ripped apart. -- Why change something that worked so well?. Honestly ime sick of writing about this garbage now.