Happy fortieth anniversary to Wes Craven’s A Nightmare On Elm Street.
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“One, two, Freddy’s coming for you…”
Chris LIKED the remake of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET!
As much as I have come to loathe remakes in general – for reasons which I will get to shortly – and even knowing that my opinion is probably going to be in a solid minority, I must confess that I was pleasantly surprised by and rather quite enjoyed the 2010 remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street.
What’s my beef with remakes? It’s like this: I can always tell when a movie project rehashing of an earlier successful film is being overly-driven by the pursuit of excess lucre. Look at Clash of the Titans: no I haven’t seen its remake yet but I’ve heard nothing but unbelievably bad things about it (and even worse about it, ahem, “3-D” version, but that’s a rant for another time). And then there are films like Peter Jackson’s adaptation of King Kong: the movies that don’t put the potential ...
First trailer for the A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET remake
Hmmmmm…
Much to my own surprise, I have to say this is a great trailer and it hints at what could end up being a fairly good movie. I’m going to always consider the original series featuring Robert Englund to be the definitive Elm Street canon, but Jackie Earle Haley is looking and sounding very good here as Freddy Krueger.
A Nightmare on Elm Street slashes its way into the waking world on April 30th, 2010....
It’s Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger!
Last night I started on the Watchmen Director’s Cut DVD (review coming soon) and I was thinking then: Jackie Earle Haley might do all right as Freddy Krueger in the upcoming remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Now comes the first photo of Haley in the trademark hat, sweater and glove…
Can’t see much of the face ‘cuz it’s swathed in shadow, but just going by this one pic it looks like Haley is channeling Freddy in all the right ways (though that may not necessarily be the healthiest of things to channel)....