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A Nightmare on Elm Street [Blu-ray] Overview
Five teenage friends living on one street all dream of a sinister man with a disfigured face, a frightening voice and a gardener's glove with knives for fingers. One by one, he terrorizes them within their dreams--where the rules are his and the only way out is to wake up. But when one among them dies, they soon realize that what happens in their dreams happens for real and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake. Buried in their past is a debt that has just come due. To save themselves, they must plunge into the mind of the most twisted nightmare of all: Freddy Krueger. Jackie Earle Haley plays the legendary evildoer in this contemporary reimagining of the seminal horror classic.
A Nightmare on Elm Street [Blu-ray] Specifications
Michael Bay (
Transformers,
Pearl Harbor) produced this remake of Wes Craven's 1985 horror classic
A Nightmare on Elm Street, which means updated shocks, computer-driven special effects, and a brand-new Freddy Krueger, this time played by Oscar nominee Jackie Earle Haley. Unfortunately, it also means a mechanical, largely scare-free carbon of the original film--the same fate suffered by Bay's remakes of
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and
Friday the 13th. Director Samuel Bayer, best known for helming videos for Nirvana and Green Day, does well by the film's visuals, which hew toward stylized doominess, but the film itself limps from set piece to set piece, with the ones borrowed directly from Craven's original scoring the most impact. What's left are a group of dull teens on the run from Haley's Freddy, who proves unsettling, if not the dynamo that Robert Englund was in the previous franchise entries. Speaking of which, the picture ends on a note that suggests a follow-up is imminent, though some more inspiration is clearly needed if Bay's
Nightmare intends to have the longevity of the first series.
--Paul Gaita
Customer Reviews
Wow, a heated debate on this film, and this is a good thing! I think this should be 2010 remake of the 1984 masterpiece of sacred fuel some controversy!
For me the only reasonable argument against this movie, it would be much imagination in relation to the dream world of ghosts have. In view of the thrills and kills the little remake brings to the table that could not or would not appear in the 80s. Some enemies are claiming that the remake is nothing more than eye candy for themselvesmodern audience with ads - I could not say more! Remake director seems Bayer was important to have covered this is not an action movie goo delight in CG.
for, ironically, the enemies themselves tend to argue that it was the remake of "boring" (Ok, so what time? ADD) Once again, I think the reason why the boring remake seems that the modern audience (including Members of the public was growing years may 80) that Bayer is effectively avoided, so that Gorefest xtreme / action movies likemany recent horror releases.
Instead, to Bayer, a target spectrum, scary, and more thin films, the horror lives mostly in the gradual revelation of suspense and bursts suddenly contemptuous of horror, it was like the original. The film is actually relatively slow pace, the actors seem to be asking and deliberately look tired because they have not slept for days, the music is slow and quiet ... There is something strangely hypnotic about everything, and some people may interpret this as"Boring," but I think that Bayer has done this with great determination in a film that is after all about sleep and sleep deprivation. He sucks you in a dream world.
Everyone has the right to express their opinion about the new Krueger. Personally, I thought it was the genius of the film. And the new theme is pedophilia was incredibly dark and good. In this sense, is better than the original IMO.
The film is not perfect. It has some poorly executed scenes. But also the realityhaunting moments (I especially love the "cave" and the final battle), and there is nothing that is absolutely idiotic, as in all the sequels of cheese. I think over time this story as a remake rate of Nightmares exciting and successful as the original court.
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