Don't listen to all the bad reviews that plague this movie. Yes, the original was better. But this recreation of the horror classic was one of the best I have ever laid my eyes on. I thought that they did a really good job with this movie. There's only a couple scenes that bear resemblance to the original, but other than that, it's all original. Jackie Earle Haley does a good job as Freddy Krueger, even though he's no Robert Englund. He brings a much darker element to the character, and it works. The dream sequences are just as good as the original albeit updated via CGI. They made me jump many times. Overall, I greatly enjoyed this movie & would definitely recommend it to fans of the original movie or horror movie fans.