Let's Talk About Movies: "A Nightmare on Elm Street"

Let's Talk About Movies: "A Nightmare on Elm Street"

"A Nightmare on Elm Street"

Out of all the remakes of horror flicks that have been remade (i.e. Halloween, Friday the 13th, My Bloody Valetine, The Hills have Eyes, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Black Christmas, originally A Stranger in The Attic, just to name a few) this was the only one that sucked! They used too many of the same scenes from the orignal one, no humor from Freddy that was funny, and wasn't half as scary as the orignal. The only difference was they changed Freddy's character from being a child killer and him getting off to a child molester....and the parents did the exact same thing and burned him. So Freddy was getting even with the parents in the orignal one by killing their kids and this one he is getting revenge by killing the children he molested because they spoke up and told the truth. Not a big leap though. When you do a remake it whs to be a big leap, HUGE so it stands out and this was not done here. Speaking of Freddy, the guy they got to play Freddy was no comparison to the original. They made him look just a little too unreal. He looked like he might be the result of inbredding.....What they should have done, which is similar to what Halloween and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, was go back further in the past and explain how Freddy came to be. Make a movie about the time he was going crazy, how he came to be, killing and molesting children. Then have a trial and explain how he got off, the parents reaction as a result, and then go into how and why Freddy is killing. Not just a parent telling the story to their kid explaing what they did, but actually make that a small part of the movie. Something would take about 30-35 minutes and take the place of too many unnecessary suspence scenes (because I wasn't in suspence). That would have been a whole diff spin, since they couldnt come up with anything else.
I give it **. Wait till it comes on HBO. Not dvd, HBO.