Every A Nightmare On Elm Street Movie Ranked Worst To Best

9. A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)

Remaking a classic of yesteryear is always a bold move, with that do-over always going to be held up to its predecessor. Stick too faithfully to what has gone before, and a remake can be deemed as utterly pointless. Bring too many fresh ideas to the table, and that film will lambasted for veering too far away from the original tale.

With the 2010 A Nightmare on Elm Street, though, we got he worst kind of remake; a totally soulless, bland, formulaic, and miserable one.

Jackie Earle Haley was as good a choice as any to replace Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, but the dour tone of this remake means his Freddy doesn't particularly have any of the playfulness of Englund's. Of course, Englund's spin on the character did become way too playful at times, but the 2010 Freddy and the 2010 Elm Street were just so dark and broody - and not in a good way.

With the likes of Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Katie Cassidy, Connie Britton, and Clancy Brown, Haley was joined by quite the impressive ensemble in this redo. The problem is, all of those characters were just so vanilla. There was no reason to care about any of them, they had minimal characteristics, and it really was a case of they were just there to add to Freddy's victims list.

Also, the decision to turn Freddy Krueger from a child killer to a child r*pist was quite the questionable call.