10 Best Slasher Horror Movie Remakes Of All Time

2. A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)

A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) really needs little introduction. It was a visionary movie created by one of horror’s true masters in Wes Craven (Scream), which turned the genre on its head when it dropped in the mid-eighties. It introduced us to the ultimate horror icon in the child-murdering dream demon Freddy Krueger, who was played exquisitely by Robert Englund.

The franchise would go on to deliver one of the finest horror sequels of all time with Dream Warriors (Part 3 - 1987), before slowly descending in quality with Krueger becoming a parody of the pure evil character he once was. The 2010 remake is a polarising film for sure, with many original fans of the classic eighties era immediately turned off by the thought of anyone other than Englund applying the grotesque burn makeup and knife-fingered glove of Krueger. But the reality is that Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen) does a fine job.

His performance takes Freddy back to the very darkest side of the character, with the movie overall devoid of the unpopular direction of humour that we saw in the likes of Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991). Paying a dark and gritty homage to the early films, and with many faithful recreations of some of the most iconic kill sequences, this is a remake which was on a hiding to nothing with what it had to live up to, but is actually a far better film than many give it credit for.