Review of A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) by Jonnyfendi — 10 Jan 2011

There were four legendary slash icons in 80s (as I remembered): Jason Voorhees (Friday The 13th), Michael Myers (Halloween), Chucky (Child Play) and the deathly-claws Freddy Krueger. On glimpse of the trailer, I expected thiz new reboot feature will be revealing the history and origin of mysterious Freddy figure.

Far from the expectation, thiz flick totally becoming the nightmare itself. If you have ever seen previous Freddy movies then you really can skip thiz one. Thiz is ninth movie that bring Freddy back to his series-killing (1984-2003), since Johnny Depp first appearance.

The movie is directing debut by Samuel Bayer who best known as Music Video Director. Robert Englund who played as Freddy back to back on previous movies, now replaced by Jackie Earle Haley. Haley seems to be suitable choice to fill thiz character.

Although on the physical appearance, Englund is taller than him. Other Casts are: Rooney Mara, Thomas Dekker, Katie Cassidy, etc. The storyline on thiz newest version was terrible. There was no creativity to bring something fresh.

Everything was rip-off from previous movies. It is always about a group of teens slashed one by one until the end. Freddy figure himself did not reveal something new here (Spoiler Alert!), as we knew he was child molester who burned alive as his punishment.

There is well known element from thiz franchise, the victims knew they could not fall asleep but in the end they always did not realize already in Freddy nightmare. Thiz scene which I talked about it was repeatedly told over and over again (although with various conditions).

It is very exhausting to spend your time for these monotone events. You could probably fall asleep even before thiz nightmare starts yet. Visit My Blog on JONNY'S MOVEE : http://jonnyfendi.blogspot.