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A Nightmare on Elm Street

United States

2010

95 Min

Color

2.35:1

English

Currently 1.7/5 Stars.
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EXEC Richard Brener, Mike Drake, Walter Hamada, Michael Lynne, Dave Neustadter, Robert Shaye

PROD Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Bradley Fuller

SCR Wesley Strick, Eric Heisserer, Wes Craven

CAST Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker, Kellan Lutz, Clancy Brown, Connie Britton, Lia D. Mortensen, Julianna Damm

fleurare

6May13

If any dumbass teenager ever tells me that they prefer this to the original, I will personally don a Freddy glove myself and shred them to pieces.

What's really interesting about Heisserer's interpretation of this classic American myth is it's place in the time of the internet. While Craven's earlier versions convey Krueger as the passage of a sexual disease (like La Ronde), Heisserer emphasizes the disease of belief that spreads in the manner of discussion via the non-linear format of the internet. Fascinating that "belief" becomes a disease of modern times.

Trevor Tillman and Zach Closs like this

Mark Garrett

14Apr12

If Jackie Earle Hayley wouldn't even come back for this one, what does that say about it's quality...?

Graeme Higginson

28May12

Do you mean Robert Englund?
Mark Garrett

28May12

Facepalm. Yes.

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