OldBoy

Please continue pre-release discussion here.

Movie:
"A Nightmare on Elm Street" (2010) (Starring Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker, Kellan Lutz)

Release Date:
4/30/2010

Rating:
R (for strong bloody horror violence, disturbing images, terror and language)

Running Time:
95 min. (1h. 35m.)

Rotten Tomatoes:
Fresh:20 Rotten:117 (15% as of 5/12/10)
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tylergfoster

Just got back. It was entirely not as bad as I was expecting. My number one concern going in was the kids, but they were much more appealing than I expected. Dialogue is truly atrocious, but Bayer steamrolls ahead with the visuals and basically ignores the story and characters, and those visuals are pretty good. Haley is enjoyable, although claims that Freddy is "scarier" here are only partially founded. Good scares, sure, but he's still the same old joke-crackin' Krueger.

Don't know how pleased Nightmare fans will be -- I was disappointed how they de-toothed Nancy, particularly in one horrendous moment near the end -- but it's different enough from the original that you can view it more as a distant sequel than a remake, and in that regard, it's a cut above.

riotinmyskull

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/44860

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and 2 more positive reviews

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/44856

OldBoy

0 for 4 on RT. i think i will see tomorrow with an open mind.

OldBoy

nice mini Tyler. gtk it isn't a direct remake bc from the trailers it almost looked scene for scene and i was hoping for some freshness. Freddy is my all-time favorite character and i quite enjoyed the F13 remake so i was hoping this wouldn't piss on the legacy and at least i can go in an enjoy. i don't get scared from movies too much anymore, but if the heart can kick an extra beat now and then i am satisfied.

Tyler don't forget to rate it up top.

tylergfoster

It's definitely similar, but the characters are pretty vastly different and most of the big beats are either re-arranged or altered. Bayer does an interesting (although admittedly far less satisfying) take on the blood-ceiling gag.

RichC2

thematahara

I watched the original the other night, and was very disappointed to find it didnt hold up as well as I remembered. Not very scary at all.

I'll probably see this, since now I don't hold the original as high as I remembered, this one can't be much worse.

Still wish that this one would have been primarily about Krueger when he was alive, with the film ending with his death.

stingermck

Yup, you really have to piece the flashbacks together, and the first episode of Freddys Nightmares. They couldve done this with England also. Oh well.

cosmosis

I saw a screening last night and I mostly hated it. (For background, I liked the TCM and F13 remakes and loved The Hills Have Eyes and Dawn of the Dead remakes.)

I guess I was hoping for more reinvention, but it's pretty much the same as the original, except with far more Freddie. It seems like more than half the film is dream stuff and it gets really repetitive and kind of dull. It's also not particularly scary or suspenseful.

Essentially no likeable characters, either. The actress playing the Nancy character is terrible and I laughed out loud when I realized that Katie Cassidy's character was actually supposed to be a high-school student. At first, I figured she had to be a college kid or a student teacher or something. The idea that she's 17 or 18 is ridiculous.

Young teens might like it, but I can't imagine any genre fans wanting to see it more than once (if that).

Barrybgb

I've read 16 reviews since this morning and only one, Harry from AICN, was good. The others were what you'd expect, which makes me happy. Even those reviewers who like Haley didn't have much in the way of good to say about the new Freddy.

The first one is still powerful and disturbing. Even though I'm no longer a kid and immune to the scares of it, I can still see and appreciate what it was that did scare me back in 1984. Absolutely terrifying. You can't say that about most horror films of the last several years, possibly decades.

tylergfoster

Here's my full review, although it basically (as you would expect) says the same things as I said above.

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/43505...street-2010-a/

Orndorf's is up, too: http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/43503...street-2010-a/

As always, he is not as kind as I.

ReduxGuy

I actually liked it quite a bit; compared to most Platinum Dunes releases, it actually has a stronger narrative, better casting and some pretty legitimate scares in the middle of bombardment central.

And while Haley will never be the Freddy we all grew up with, he still manages to make this version his own and delivers probably the most spine-tingling rendition of him yet.

Jumpman

Thoroughly enjoyed this "re-imagining" of Krueger. In all honesty, I think by changing the circumstances of Krueger's backstory, they fixed a problem I've always had with the original series.

Plus, by using the horrible cliche of jump scares in this film, they've made them a tad legitimate, considering that the jump scares in this film work with the narrative. We/the characters don't know the real world from the dream world.

I've always loved the idea of the series and Englund more than the execution of the films. I think, if this film makes money, they can do some very interesting things with Krueger in sequels, if they keep him on this path...the more vicious, menacing version of Freddy...because Freddy's pissed in this film and Haley lets you see how pissed he is. It's kind of refreshing.

Supermallet

This movie was terrible. Downright awful. The dour feel, the unimaginative dream world, the completely one-note performances by the teenagers, all of it. Haley completely bungled Freddy. This killer has no panache, no style, no imagination. And the climax is straight out of Freddy vs. Jason, except without Jason. Completely boring and utterly pointless.

Dr. DVD

FWIW, the ending of Freddy vs. Jason (or at least the concept of how to got rid of Freddy) was straight out of the original Nightmare and Freddy's Dead. So sounds like they just kept the climax of the original.

Supermallet

mdc3000

Pretty boring. I did think there were a few nice Freddy moments and the movie finally started to show a little flair with from the pharmacy sequence until the end, but overall mediocre. I love Katie Cassidy but the cast either had nothing to do or were just annoying... Rooney Mara was OK but I definitely would have preferred her sister. Hell, you've got Clancy Brown and Connie Britton in your movie and give them a scene and a half - wtf? And while I know that the original had one of those last second scares tacked on to it too, I fucking dare Platinum Dunes to make a movie that DOESN'T end on a last second 'Boo/Gotcha!' scare moment. 2/5 stars.

Poink

Yeah, I'd say you "missed" that part.

Original NoES spoilers abound:

The entire final act of the movie centers on Nancy's plan to pull Freddy into the real world in order to kill him. She puts traps up around the entire house; rigs a sledgehammer to her door to hit him when she runs out of her room, fishing wire to trip him in the living room, etc.

She willingly goes to sleep and sets her alarm so she can grab on to him and pull him into the real world, since she managed to steal his hat earlier in the film while under the sleep study at that clinic. It works, she manages to set him on fire, and knock him down some stairs and then he runs upstairs and hops onto her mother in bed. She then confronts his "spirit" which is when she turns his back on him and walks away.

islandclaws

They set that up for the entire beginning of the third act in the original. When did you last see it?

paradicelost

paradicelost

Sorry I missed those posts above mine that already answered suppermallet's question.

Applejack

I liked it, but it wasn't the best ever.

The acting was pretty good for a horror movie, and I liked having more of the backstory; however, I like the deaths better in the original version of the series

danstheday

HORRIBLE! HORRIBLE! HORRIBLE movie. Save your money and rent it from the redbox for $1. Even after paying just $1 to rent it it will be just only HORRIBLE.

Supermallet

Wow, it seems like I always wholly misunderstood that sequence. I thought she read about setting traps so she could set them in her dream, not the real world. The ending where he disappears makes no sense if he exists as a physical being in the real world. I always assumed it was all in the dream world.