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A Nightmare on Elm Street

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Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man, Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley), terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when one of their number dies violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.
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Visually faithful but lacking the depth and subversive twists that made the original so memorable, the Nightmare on Elm Street remake lives up to its title in the worst possible way.

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Candice Frederick Reel Talk Online It's cliched, boring, and anticlimactic. Rated: D+ Sep 11, 2017 Full Review Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly I did jump a few times, and I liked Haley's dour malevolence, but overall, the new Nightmare on Elm Street is a by-the-numbers bad dream. Rated: B- Sep 7, 2011 Full Review Christine Champ Film.com Freddy's back -- and he's slicker and more sinister than ever. Rated: B May 6, 2011 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review A Nightmare on Elm Street is just as tedious as the other horror remakes by Platinum Dunes, avoiding any semblance of creative thought or innovative interpretation. Rated: 1/4 Aug 18, 2023 Full Review Nick Rogers Midwest Film Journal Re-imagining a character whose appeal is largely inextricable from his initial era is a suicide mission. Stay too pure to the original & what’s the point? Complications stray from its strengths. It's basically a question of who would fall on the grenade. Rated: .5/5 Nov 1, 2022 Full Review Cody Leach Cody Leach (YouTube) A commendable attempt by Haley to step into near-unfillable shoes is completely let down by a generic copy & paste script and an overuse of unforgivable CGI. Rooney Mara acts like she'd rather be anywhere else and most audience members will feel the same. Rated: 2/5 Aug 20, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Oscar S great cast, great kills, this movie is Definitely underrated Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 11/14/24 Full Review Jacob P Not really faithful to the story. While it is visually stunning, the story they were trying to tell, it just fell flat. Simply put, fuck this movie! Rated 1 out of 5 stars 11/11/24 Full Review Omar G A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), 7/10. Samuel Bayer had a better visual style in his music videos. If he had done it like this, his film would have been better visually. In a magazine I saw scenes of somebody lowering his face's zipper and was Freddy's face, was the same escene as a Rolling Stones video with Angelina Jolie. Unused Scenes from the trailer and cut scenes should be added in an extended version for Blu-ray or for Max. They take this weak script from several scenes from all the Nightmare movies, like Nancy is a waitress, this is taken from Alice Johnson from A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 The Dream Master (1988). Freddy gets in front of Nancy and Quentin's vehicle so they crash like what happened to Alice and Dan in A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 The Dream Master (1988). The floor turns to swamp and swallows Nancy, it's like Kristen Parker (Tuesday Knight) gets swallowed by quicksand in A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 The Dream Master (1988). Adult Nancy dressed as a child, just like Maggie Burroghs (Liza Zane) dressed as a child from Freddy's Dead The Final Nightmare (1991). Nancy slits Freddy's throat in the real world and says something like this is my world b...!, it's like when Lori decapitates Freddy and says welcome to my world b...! From Freddy vs. Jason (2003). Freddy comes out of a mirror and takes his victim, Nancy's mother (Connie Britton) inside, like in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 The Dream Warriors (1987). The script by Wesley Strick, Eric Heisserer is flawed, they should have made a direct sequel to A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), with the original draft of Dream Warriors by Wes Craven and Bruce Wagner. Using only the script with the same director and cast. For me, Jackie Earle Haley as Fred "Freddy" Krueger was fine. The attractive women in this film were Rooney Mara as Nancy Holbrook, I didn't like her character and performance, much less her criticism of this film, which gave her the opportunity for a career. Katie Cassidy as Kris Fowles and the sexy mature Connie Britton. I liked the use of the song All I have to do is dream by The Everly Brothers. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/10/24 Full Review Tommy D This movie destroyed the franchise and Robert Englund will always be Freddy Krueger. And a eccessive use CGI is orrible Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 11/07/24 Full Review Rowan C I don't think this movie is as bad as everyone says because this is the scariest Freddy that we have ever gotten. I was never going to hold this new Freddy higher than the original, because no one could ever out do the original. I personally felt entertained watching this movie and I like how they brought the name Nancy into the remake. This Freddy cracked some jokes, but this was the most serious Freddy we have ever gotten which made him more of a monster. However, I did think that the actual Freddy in this movie did look stupid but the acting was decent on his part. Overall, I do think this movie is hated on a little to much and it was not that bad. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/30/24 Full Review Deontae D A remake of Wes craven 1984 classic a nightmare on elm Street, I ain't gone lie, It wasn't all that, Robert Englund will always be Freddy Krueger, It probably would've been better if he was in it, It probably wouldn't got so many bad reviews, But Jackie hurley did a decent job though, Tbh they didn't had to remake a nightmare on elm Street. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/27/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man, Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley), terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when one of their number dies violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.
Director
Samuel Bayer
Producer
Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller
Screenwriter
Wesley Strick, Eric Heisserer
Distributor
Warner Bros.
Production Co
Platinum Dunes
Rating
R (Language|Disturbing Images|Strong Bloody Horror Violence|Terror)
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 30, 2010, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 1, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA)
$63.1M
Runtime
1h 36m
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