A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) Trailer
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) Review
Dark Castle was responsible for pushing out remakes for a long time, but the last few years Platinum Dunes have been churning out the remakes. They have been behind “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, “The Amityville Horror, “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning” and a few more pretty generic films.
Platinum Dunes remake of “A Nightmare on Elm Street” is a huge disappointment. Its disappointing because the producers knew they were approaching a connect the dot style remake and they simply didn’t care. The original “A Nightmare on Elm Street” was clever, creepy, and all around creative, everything the remake is lacking. This film is a huge giant $8.50 sleeping pill. It’s absolutely horrid. The producers in this film seem absolutely lazy. That’s the only explanation on how something this bad could have came from a genius horror film.
Rewritten, and I say that loosely, by Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer, the plot is dealing with several kids all being haunted in their dreams by an evil villain. After, what seems like an enternity we find out the burned man is Freddy Krueger. Freddy Krueger was a pedophile who was burned to death by the parents of the victims. The story was delivered to whomever is reading this the same way its presented in the film, slow, boring and uneventful. Sam Bayer falls flat on his face in the first feature. The whole film is shot very bad with focus on dream scenes few and far between.
The cast doesn’t help the film at all. Freddy Krueger with his new makeup looks more odd and a little humorous then scary. In regards to what’s new in this film, there isn’t much new. There is more detail on Freddy before he was the boogeyman, which never makes much sense, just ask Rob Zombie and his take on Michael Myers story. This film was basically a rip off of the original films visual appeal without any of the psychological thrill. This was a forgettable absolutely lazy film. Platinum Dunes looked for quick fillers of visual content and cared nothing about the essence of the film. They might as well have placed a caption on the film saying “We just didn’t care!”.
