Nightmare On Elm street 2010 - School Pictures

Looks a bit like the school in the dream master,i read the script a few days ago and its not very good,the biggest problems i had with it is that they made fred a child molester and nancy is now a goth loner type with not near enough screen time,looking to be another pointless remake.
 
Apparently he was meant to be a molester,and there are certainly some slight hints towarRAB that in the first two movies.However,in no way would a child molester be acceptable marketing wise in the mid 80's and Wes Craven wanted him to be basically the personification of evil anyway.By the third movie,New Line realised it had a hugely marketable brand on their hanRAB and toned him down into a wisecracking slasher.

I think the only way to remove all the cartoonish elements and reinvent the character into something scary again is to make him as nasty as possible.

My main concern is whether the actors playing the teens in this remake can actually act.There was some fine acting in the first NOES movie,and Nancy was no model,she was a normal looking teen.Wes certainly knew what he was doing...
 
I believe he was a child molester and killer when he was alive, I think that it was mentioned in the films and also the series backed it up too.
 
I agree, he went from a cold blooded killer of the 80's to some sort of anti-hero of the 90's. Hell, by Freddy 5 I was rooting for the guy lol.

I loved the Freddy movies but by the time Freddy vs Jason came out I couldn't give a brass (although it wasn't a bad film :o). They do need to reinvent him and make him the way he should of stayed in the 80's (IMO).

All this talk of Freddy makes me want to get out my Freddy collection and dust it off for some serious watching. lol
 
He was never a child molester,not in any of the movies,it was hinted in the original script but later dropped 2 just a murderer because of a spate of highly publicized child molestation cases in California around the time A Nightmare on Elm Street went into production.
 
The worst thing about the Nightmare franchise is the endless amounts of potential it has for a good remake/reimagining...and knowing that the remake is just likely going to become another bog-standard Hollywood horror with nothing special about it to make it truly stand out from all the other bog-standard Hollywood horrors.

I wish I could get more optimistic and excitde about this. The pictures of the school look good. But history has taught me to approach remakes with great caution or not even bother.
 
If it is any consolation, the decision to have Jackie Earl Haley as Freddy Kreuger may be the film's saving grace, as it is a perfect bit of casting imo
 
I'd give him a chance. Only last week moviegoers were claiming Leonard Nimoy was the one and only Spock, and they have all been pleasantly proven otherwise.

JEH is a great actor, and if anyone can bring something to the character, he can
 
I must admit, I'm not particularly impressed by the idea of this remake. The 'Nightmare' films are my favourite movies of all time and as much as I will go and see the new version with an open mind, I really don't hold out much hope.

That said I liked the Halloween remake better than the original. Pfft, where's the originality these days? It's all remakes and sequels.
 
Not really.That's like saying Bela Lugosi was the one and only Dracula.We all know how Christopher Lee made the role his own. Heath Ledger created a fantastic Joker after everybody thought Jack Nicholson mastered the character.



That's the thing that get's me.The creative possibilities surrounding a dream stalking child murderer are endless.I feel few of the dream sequences in the original franchise actually felt like nightmares.Movies such as Jacob's Ladder did nightmarish sequences better than NOES.
 
He did.But the latter sequels,merchandise,and increasingly cheesey performance (e.g the cartoonsh bad guy cackle) turned a great character into a joke.Freddy's Dead killed any credibility Robert Englund's Freddy Krugeger had left.
 
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