The Nightmare on Elm Street

Hello World...

Following suit with the theme of the month i.e. the scariness that is Halloween, i decided to make an attempt to scare myself. I decided to rent the newer revamped version of the old classic, "A Nightmare on Elm Street", and I was not disappointed. The movie more or less followed the same plot as the original, centered around teenagers at a school being terrorized by an unknown man with an unsightly sweater and a set of claws throughout the dreams, thus turning them into nightmares (hence the name). This reboot is one of three newer version of horror classics, the other two being Halloween and Friday the 13th. This one would rank second behind Halloween, which was phenomenally done by Rob Zombie. The movie also adds more terror by casting Jackie Earle Haley (The Watchmen), who unlike the original Freddy Krueger, actually added some scariness to the role. The original one, even though quite scary, grew to become more and more comical. The newer version of Krueger had many witty lines but overall kept his presence on screen as a villain and not just comic relief. This version also goes a lot deeper into the plot, detailing what really happened to the Krueger and why he is the way he is. This is done by using flashbacks within the nightmares he creates. Although I'm not a fan of the ending, as it seems the only to kill Krueger *spoiler alert* is to bring him to the real world and kill him here; it overall was a decently scary movie and serves as a pretty good box office movie on opening weekends, sadly not much else though....