Review of A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) by Lordnaseby — 26 Sep 2011

Acting: Weak. Very weak. Like Sidney says in Scream "these movies are all just some big breasted chick who goes up the stairs when they should be going out the front door" I'm not saying that happens here, because obviously Freddy kills you in your dreams and you can't really stop that, but the characters have the same I.Q. level. The characters in this one are all the same: one dimensional one emotion cardboard knife fodder. It sucks. Also Freddy, what is with Freddy? We all know that no one can beat Robert Englund as Freddy but COME ON! You have to try harder than that. He also goes directly into the 'pun kill' phase. why? why!? 1/10.

Plot: The same as the original just with a few changes some of them are major I will admit. One thing I absolutely hated with this film was that they had every major kill scene and scare scene, they were ALL done better with the original and they had all of them EXCEPT THE BEST ONE!!! The epitome of cool Freddy kill is not involved with this one at all. Why the heck not!?! you have all the others why not that one!? Yeesh. Ridiculous. I hated it. Retards. But frankly, they had the plot so that you didn't give a rats about any of the characters. and the changes they made were incredibly stupid. I hated them. 1/10.

Screenplay: Like I said earlier: Freddy goes directly into the 'pun kill' stage. Why? Also, no one says anything good. It was all cringe worthy. I absolutely hated it. I absolutely don't even see the point of any character saying anything simply because no one is going to the movie to hear great dialogue. They are coming to see Freddy butcher retard teenagers. So teens in this movie, don't open your mouth the audience will just flinch and groan if you do. 0/10.

Likableness: I didn't like it. at all. I don't want this one to exist. I feel that they missed the mark on Freddy which is the worst mistake anyone could make and they had every major kill form the original except the best one. Why is that? If you've run out of characters by the point where it has to come up, add another one. no one can tell the difference. No one really cares. There were some good kills but they weren't as good as the original ones at all. I don't even see the point. .5/10.

Final Score: 2.5/40 6% (S).

TRIVIA TIME: 1. two lines are taken out of past Freddy movies that I could spot. 1. "How's this for a wet dream?" from A Nightmare on Elm street 4: The Dream Master. and "I'm your boyfriend now" From the original Nightmare on Elm Street.

2. Originally intended to be a prequel, but the idea was dropped.

3. Billy Bob Thornton was considered to play Freddy Krueger.

4. Around 15 different drafts of the script were written. The final film is a hybrid of 4 of them.

5. Jackie Earle Haley would often improvise his lines on the set, feeling this might help unease his other cast members if they didn't know what line he was going to say.

6. Wes Craven was reportedly not approached about this remake. He has however publicly spoken against it. Good choice Wes.

7. To provoke a response from the actors in the scene in "Freddy's Cave", the photographs they found were Polaroids of little girls mixed with real Polaroids taken from medical surgeries.

8. Jackie Earle Haley scratched his corneas with the contact lenses he wore delaying production for a short time. He also had the whites of his eyes turn blood red for two weeks because of this.

9. Johnny Depp accompanied his friend Jackie Earle Haley to auditions for A Nightmare on Elm Street. 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.