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Not a Dream Come True
PostedApril 30, 2010
ARomo82
from Los Angeles
This only brings up the question that many of us wonder: why can't Hollywood go back to producing original films?
While I may have liked past horror remakes -specifically Rob Zombie's Halloween, and Marcus Nispel's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - I was quite disappointed in how this one turned out. My idea of remakes is this: you either try to make a film tribute on the same calibre as the first, or supersede it. This did neither.
First of all, it lacked any type of development or build-up in terms of storyline. If you're looking to get right into the gore fest, then this is your film. Right from the start, it's pretty much Freddy's glove meets flesh. Sure, it has the jumpy moments one expects from horror films, but there's no true horror happening. It reminds me of a quote I once read that hinted horror is not about what is shown (i.e. gore), but rather what we don't get to see - what's lurking in the shadows (maybe Peter Cushing?). It's what we get from Craven's 1985 masterpiece.
You also don't have much character development. The teenagers had no semblance of normalcy through the film. Again, we dive right into their "crazed" personalities, rather than see them develop this fear of a man with the "weird hat, and red and green sweater" who "uses these knives". And don't even get me going on this Nancy - they didn't do great casting on this one.
The only good things about this film were the suspenseful jumpy scenes. Jackie Earle Haley also did justice to our beloved Krueger by outperforming the whole film.
I wasn't expecting this film to be the greatest of all the franchises, but they had potential to take the story somewhere. The only reason I would recommend this to a friend is because my friends enjoyed it, and I can tell others would. I usually give movies like this a chance for pure entertainment value, but even movies like those live up to their purpose.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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