10 Horror Movie Remakes That Pissed Off Audiences

3. Made Freddy A Dull Boy - A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)

Back in the late noughties and early '10s, tepid remakes and reboots of classic slasher movies were all the rage, with Texas Chainsaw, Halloween, Friday 13th and, of course, Nightmare all suffering under the weight of studios' desire to keep their IP burning. While most of the films from this time were deeply flawed, few did as much - or as little - for their main attraction as Samuel Bayer's A Nightmare On Elm Street. 

The film has a higher BBFC rating than the original, which allowed Bayer and company the freedom to really go to town on the chaotic horror side of things, but instead they took one of the most animated characters from the horror canon and made him everyday and humdrum. And suffice to say audiences didn't react positively. 

Jackie Earle Haley does his best as dream demon Freddy Krueger, but the material just isn't there; no matter how much he snarled and menaced, there was no winning fans over on this one. Writers Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer turned Krueger into a dark paedophile, rather than an awesome otherworldly entity, robbing him of the humour Wes Craven and original Freddy Robert Englund had spent years injecting into the character. And the remake ruined Freddy's look to boot, removing the expressiveness of Englund's prosthetics, and giving Haley a pinched, stiff, ratty mask reminiscent of the Buffy vampires.