A Nightmare on Elm Street

Plot synopsis:
Fifteen-year-old Tina Gray is stalked through a boiler room and attacked by a disfigured man wearing a blade-fixed glove. She awakens from the nightmare, but her mother points out four mysterious slashes in her nightgown.
The following morning, Tina is consoled by her best friend Nancy Thompson and her boyfriend Glen Lantz. Later, Nancy and Glen sleep at Tina's following her mother's out-of-town departure; the sleepover is interrupted by Tina's boyfriend Rod Lane. Falling asleep, Tina sees the man and runs. Awakened by Tina's thrashing, Rod witnesses her being fatally slashed by an unseen force. He flees as Nancy and Glen find Tina, mistakenly blaming Rod. Nancy tells her father, Lieutenant Don Thompson, of Tina's death.
The next day, Rod is arrested by Don, despite his pleas of innocence. At school, Nancy falls asleep in class and finds the man, calling himself Freddy Krueger, chasing her in the boiler room. Nancy burns her arm on a pipe and then awakens. She notices the burn mark on her arm and is concerned. At home, Nancy falls asleep in the bathtub and nearly gets drowned by Freddy. Nancy goes to Rod, who tells her what happened to Tina, and Nancy believes Freddy is responsible for Tina's death.
Nancy has Glen watch over her as she falls asleep. She tries to find Freddy and sees him preparing to kill Rod. He turns his attention on her; she runs and wakes up when her alarm clock goes off. Nancy and Glen go to the jail and discover Rod dead in his cell in an apparent suicide. At Rod's funeral, Nancy's parents become worried when she describes the man in her dreams. Her mother Marge takes her to a dream clinic. In her dream, Nancy is attacked again and grabs Freddy's hat. When the staff wake her up, she has a gash in her arm and Freddy's hat in her possession.
At home, Marge bars the windows and begins drinking heavily. She tells Nancy that Freddy was a child murderer released on a technicality. In a form of vigilante justice, the parents in the neighborhood burned him alive. Realizing that Freddy desires revenge, Nancy convinces Glen to help her. She plans to take Freddy into the real world, and sets up booby traps in her house. Concerned over her influence, Glen's parents prevent the two from meeting. Glen falls asleep at their appointed hour, and Freddy kills him and releases his blood in a large fountain in his room, which is witnessed by Glen's mother.
Alone, Nancy puts Marge to bed and asks Don, who is across the street, to break into the house in twenty minutes. In her sleep, she locates Freddy at the last second and pulls him out of the dream. In the real world, Nancy runs from Freddy, who trips on the booby traps. She lights him on fire, locks him in the basement, and rushes to the door for help. The police arrive, and they realize Freddy has escaped the basement. In Marge's bedroom, they see a still-burning Freddy smother her. After Don puts out the fire, Freddy and Marge have vanished. Despite her father's words, Nancy believes she is still in danger.
Freddy attacks Nancy once again. Realizing he is powered by his victim's fear, she calmly turns her back on him, reducing him to nothingness. She steps outside into a bright morning where all of her friends and mother are still alive. She gets into Glen's car to go to school when the top comes down and suddenly locks them in. As the car is driven uncontrollably down the street, Marge is grabbed through the window of their front door by Freddy's gloved hand and is dragged through it to her apparent death.

Tags: revenge, psychedelic, murder, violence, flashback

Review:
When it was announced that Jackie Earle Haley would be taking on the role of Freddy in the new Elm Street franchise reboot, a collective sigh of relief went up from the fans of the originals.
It's like the director realized he didn't know how to direct a scary movie and instead of quitting and finding a new job, he decided to edit in sudden loud noises and hope no one would notice.By the end the audience I saw it with could hardly hold back their titters of laughter and I don't mean that in a good way.
What's left is a dreary, poorly-lit slog with uninteresting characters, wooden acting and a complete lack of tension, suspense or energy.We could spend all day talking about the problems, but two big ones sink this new Nightmare all on their own.The first is the new Freddy – he's not scary at all.
(Robert Englund's original Freddy at least was creepy for a couple of films before falling into camp.) Haley's tiny frame makes Freddy look puny and his voice sounds like an even-more-ridiculous take on the raspy Christian Bale "Batman" voice.Haley's not helped by the terrible new Freddy makeup, which presumably is supposed to look like a more "realistic" burn victim, but it robs him of any expression.
Unlike the other films, but like Platinum Dune's other remakes, there is an attempt at a Freddy Krueger origin story.
I entered the movie expecting to get whisked away to the wonderful dream-world of Freddy Krueger but was instead pulled into a high school slasher film promoting a typical killer with a grudge and thirst for blood.
People get certain expectations in their heads when Hollywood comes out with a new movie based on a old franchise and when it doesn't meet those expectations, you better watch out, because no matter what you do, people won't agree with it.As soon as they announced the original actor for Kruger wasn't going to taking up his old role, people should have known this movie was going to take a hit.
The original Nightmare on Elm Street movies never took themselves very seriously, they were campy, B-Horror quality films that people learned to love and enjoy.
Anyone who's seen the original will agree this was an awful money making remake of a classic horror which could have been amazing but it just wasn't...Seriously, if i had the chance to remake a movie like this..
The guy who played Freddy was OK I suppose but he just wasn't scary enough to look at and didn't really creep me out as much as Robert Englund did.The whole charade was lacking everything I liked about the first Nightmare On Elm Street movie due to the complete lack of vision and story telling by the director.Throughout the whole movie I had my head in my hands thinking " WHY OH WHY IS IT THAT NO GOOD DIRECTOR EVER GETS THE CHANCE TO REMAKE CLASSICS LIKE THIS...WHY??"I think it should be a rule in future by which all remakes of horrors MUST be as good as or better than the original in order to be released.
I didn't think the acting was bad at all, I just think the script itself wasn't very good, definitely could've taken this movie in all kinds of crazy directions but instead just made it bland, it seemed like it was 3 hours long, Save your money!.
They used CGI to do the groping, stretching wall shot, I mean, the 80's latex looked nasty, but the CGI looked silly, like something out of a Disney movie.Why, when the opportunity came to remake a dark, near humourless film, they chose a non-horror director to do it?
2010's A Nightmare on Elm Street is a remake/re-imagining of Wes Craven's supernatural slasher classic about a group of teenagers being tormented by badly burned killer Fred Krueger in their dreams, with wounds inflicted in said nightmares manifesting themselves in the real world.There's a good reason that (as of the writing of this review) this movie's average IMDb rating is smack-bang in the middle, a perfect 5/10.
In fact, until the end of the movie, one might be lead to think that the characters are in fact being killed by their own repressed memories, and not some kind of supernatural dream-killer.Fans of the original will remember the intentional ambiguity of Freddy's past, starting off as a child killer who got away with it, killed by angry town folk taking the law into their own hands, and becoming more and more bizarre as the series went on, involving the strange circumstances of his conception, and a lot of religious undertones.
Freddy's backstory is more disturbing than the original version, and things which Craven may have intended, but never outright said, come to light here.I will also tell you this - a newcomer to Freddy would probably do better watching this film than a hardcore fan of the original series.
As such it's probably better for newcomers, but fans will smile at the number of references to the classics, with character names and lines from movies all across the series, even Freddy vs.
Nowadays, some troubled teens ( Rooney Mara, Killey Gallner , Katie Cassidy, among them ) start to be haunted in their nightmares by scar-faced and dream-hunting Freddy Krueger ( Jackie Earle Haley replacing the horror icon Robert Englund ) , a kind of spectre with horrible burns and large knives.
Furthermore , there is revealed a dark secret about his past who originally burned him to death.This is a reworking upon first film's plot by screenwriter Wesley Strick based on the characters created by Wes Craven and dealing with the imaginative premise about a kind of ghost who can enter their dreams at will and intents on taking over both his body and mind .
From original entry directed by Wes Craven , it was followed by a handful of sequels in which horrifying special effects dominate this slasher saga , as ¨Freddy's revenge¨ 1985 by Jack Sholder , ¨Dream warrior¨ 1987 by Chuck Russell , it's one of the best sequels from successful original film by Craven , as ¨Dream master¨ (1988) by Renny Harlin, and ¨The dream child¨ (1989) by Stephen Hopkins , besides a Television series ¨The Freddy's nightmares¨ and this last one ¨ A nightmare on Elm Street¨(2010) that is a simple copy with little imagination , too many flaws and giving routine treatment .
Unlike most of the critical reviewers, I have seen the entire film franchise of Nightmare on Elm Street from part I to Dream Warriors and yes even, Freddy V Jason, and I am here to say with confidence that this film not only does justice to the historical precedents set by the original, but furthers its future existence into the next realm of this new decade.
Now, in response to the criticisms': This movie has strong performances by Rooney Mara as Nancy, Kyle Gallner as Quentin, and of course Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger.
This movie however is just bad, the acting never a biggy in horror films feels like you are watching people who have not yet learned to act.
This is not only a poor remake of the original but just an all around horrible movie that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy, trust me save yourself and don't even rent this one wait till it goes to Big Lots for $3 I would give it a year tops to hit that point if the public and critics voice their opinions..
The other 4 actors are Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker (John Connor from the TV Terminator), Rooney Mara, and Kyle Gallner (who gets to add this credit to his growing string of cheap horror movies, earlier including The Haunting in Connecticut and Jennifer's Body).For anyone on the planet who's never heard the name Freddie Krueger before, he was burned alive by an angry mob of Elm Street vigilante parents many years ago, and now his spirit returns to haunt their children.
Once, the production house of New Line Cinema meant new and groundbreaking films, especially the Nightmare On Elm Street Series, and excluding the terrible part VI - Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, were pretty decent at doing that.So they decide to try and breath life into a long dead Kruger and bring the nightmares back to life for a new set of fans......
However, this Freddy isn't anybody to be scared of Robert England is still KING!Everything that a horror film should be is missing from this movie.What could have made the movie better?Do Not remake the first film; use a completely different story.
What boosted Robert Englund's performance in the original was the fact that he could go through a whole range of emotions, mannerisms, and the like, but Haley, who is an excellent actor and choice for Freddy, is limited in his range, because of the serious line the film takes.
It follows the tried and true formula of the American Horror Remake, pioneered by Michael Bay: Music video director, no- name cast (except the guy who played Freddy in this case), big budget (but not huge enough to do anything really interesting), new "darker" (not scarier) look, lots of jump scares, and a script that sticks very close to the original, bringing nothing new to the table except more exposition.
With horror sequels it is almost inevitable that they descend into camp when they reuse a pre-established idea, and they can either roll with it, trying to up the ante with increasingly extreme variations on the original (like the Nightmare sequels), or resist it, and try to scare you again with the same old stuff (the remake).As far as the much maligned reliance on jump scares goes, they can work effectively if they're used sparingly, but they become monotonous after a while, and at the end of the day, nobody gets scared of somebody jumping out of nowhere with loud music suddenly coming on after they leave the theatre.The most puzzling part of all of these remakes, is the amount of time devoted to exposition.
It should be assumed that even people who've never seen a nightmare on elm street film should know what it's about walking into it, but for some reason they always find it necessary to spend the entire first half of the movie explaining what's happening.
The only way to keep a remake like this interesting while sticking so closely to the plot, is to play on what the audience already knows and expects (ie, the 90s night of the living dead remake), not explain it to them.On a positive note, this is the last truly classic horror film left to be remade, unless someone has the balls to redo The Shining, or out of formality makes an official Exorcist remake, instead of just ripping it off and using a different title..
He just diddled them, and cut them a little with his glove....So instead of Freddy being a evil, child Killer...he's just a like a creepy uncle with a knife fetish.The most tragic thing in this movie though, is they didn't even have the common sense to really give Jackie Earl Haley a chance.
Bad writing, bad direction, mediocre special effects and lack of imagination made this film nothing more than another extremely boring remake.Sometimes I think that Michael Bay is sitting in an office somewhere with a list of all the things from my childhood that I loved.
The original Nightmare on Elm Street will always be the best and no remake could make the film any better.
I understand that when remaking a movie, they change up the story a bit so us FREDDY fans don't know what to expect but...
Of course every wants to know about Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy and while he isn't as good as Robert Englund, he does do the character justice and in a way makes it his own.
Michael Bay did a good job with the production of this remake and re- imagining of Freddy Krueger, without these movies I would not have written The Fandom Writer or The Fandom Writer II -- I can see where there are critics saying the film sucked.
An objective–no matter how ambiguously presented–is key to the success of any work of art, and the objectives of these remakes is, simply: the cashing in of a recognizable name "for a few dollars more." That being said, there are times when the PD Plastics Factory has appealed to my most easy-to-please instincts, whether it be a distinctive performance within something otherwise mediocre (Sean Bean in "The Hitcher," for instance), or adhering to formula to deliver just what the viewer expects ("Friday the 13th").Unfortunately, those easy-to-please instincts went unstimulated by "A Nightmare on Elm Street," a miserably dull update of Wes Craven's 1984 original.
Freddy Krueger is my number one maniac of horror movies and I have watched the original "A Nightmare on Elm Street" franchise many times in the movie theaters, on VHS and on DVD.
Robert Englund became a cult-actor because of his magnificent interpretation of Freddy Krueger, blending humor and cruelty in the right proportions.This remake of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" does not add any value to the franchise, with a story that does not show anything that has not been seen before, except the awful Freddy Krueger, performed by Jackie Earle Haley.
I fail to see how this movie is rated higher than pg13 there is just nothing there you don't see on every other crime drama past 8pm.Jackie is definitely no Robert but if you think of him as "another version" of Freddy, then he pulls it off pretty well, he just has absolutely nothing to work with and it's only his personal style and mannerisms that bring any quality to his character,his dialog and direction are just purely redundant.As for Nancy and all the rest of the cast, think Twilight and High School Musical, if Disney made horror movies, this would be one of them.For the younger generation,(and I am only 25) sure go watch this but make sure to take the time to watch the original, you will be blown away and I would hate to see it not rediscovered because of the moronic outcome of this adaption.
All fans are waiting for new movies with the horror legend Freddy!"A Nightmare on Elm Street" is my favorite movie!
All fans are waiting for new movies with the horror legend Freddy!"A Nightmare on Elm Street" is my favorite movie!
All fans are waiting for new movies with the horror legend Freddy!"A Nightmare on Elm Street" is my favorite movie!
All fans are waiting for new movies with the horror legend Freddy!"A Nightmare on Elm Street" is my favorite movie!
Considering the poor quality of recent remakes, Freddy fans are justified for feeling pessimistic about the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' reboot, especially with Robert Englund being replaced by Jackie Earle Haley.
Hi everyone this is Jack Red, I been a fan of Freddy for a long time and I can't believe how bad this movie actually is.At the time I seen it I thought A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge was the worst though on it's own, it's a good horror movie.Where to begin on actually describing this horrible remake based one of the greatest horror movies ever made.Wes Craven wasn't involve since he is currently working on Scream 4 as well as a few lawsuits with the company behind the franchise.Nancy in this movie was nothing like the one in the original in fact I don't even think it was her at all.Nancy's friends in the first film are replaced with ones that suck pretty bad.Too many dreams are in this movie along in fact if I did count all of them of the series this one would win it.You barely get to see their parents though you do see a lot of Nancy's mom in the movie.The deaths all suck so bad because they're so unofficial and terribly planned out scenes.A lot of lines from the previous series are taken in the movie sadly according to a fact four of the fifteen scripts they came up with ended up being messed together.Originally they were planning a sequel to Freddy vs.
Jason for a new Freddy movie to be very upset.They change him to the point that I hope it doesn't get a sequel in fact what happen to him, he used to be quite a character but now he just sucks.Freddy doesn't even look scary in this movie at all I tried to not laugh at him for trying to be scary.If you want a good Freddy movie then you are better off with the original.So in conclusion stay the away from this movie at all costs even Wes Craven hates the movie anyway thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy..
The movie also had more of a story to it then then the original, in the original Freddy killed people for no reason in this film there is a good reason why he is killing off all the teenagers.2 and 1/2 stars is what i would give this movie because of their descent attempt to make a new version of Nightmare on Elm Street..
The fact that they casted Jackie Earle Haley to play the new Freddy Krueger as well as trying to get the film back to a serious tone only peaked my excitement.
The performances and visual effects are improved in this film and while Haley may not be better than Englund, he did a great job as the new Freddy Krueger.
The film had good death scenes, good direction, some good scares, good acting, a great look and feel to it, and last but not leasta fantastic new take on Freddy Krueger.
Have people fight back at Freddy Krueger dream world in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 remake.