10 Awful Horror Movies With One Brilliant Kill
7. A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010) - Dr. Gwen Holbrook
2010's fresh take on A Nightmare on Elm Street has extremely little going for it bar one particularly impressive kill.
One of those countless remakes that simply didn't need to happen, this Elm Street do-over does nothing to justify its existence. Forever feeling like a carbon copy of the template laid out by Wes Craven with 1984's original A Nightmare on Elm Street, Samuel Bayer's picture stumbles through the same loose narrative as the '84 film, just with less of the practical SFX charm and uniqueness of Craven's offering.
Plus, poor Jackie Earle Haley was never going to live up to Robert Englund's Freddy Krueger - even if this redo added an extra layer of sinister by making Haley's Freddy a child molester rather than 'just' a child killer.
Still, you're hear for the one brilliant kill of the Elm Street remake, right?
That one moment of brilliance comes right at the movie's close, with Rooney Mara's Nancy having seemingly toppled Krueger. Home from the hospital, Nancy then witnesses her mother Gwen (Connie Britton) brutally slaughtered by Freddy; him appearing in a mirror and running his infamous blades through the back of Gwen's head and out of her eyes.