10 Worst Slasher Movie Reboots Ever Made
2. A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)
You know a production company is bad when their films account for 40% of a "worst of" list. Platinum Dunes is back again with yet another rehash of a horror classic. And of all the 80s slasher icons who were given a reboot, none got a worse deal that Freddy Krueger.
The 2010 remake of Wes Craven's classic is an utter travesty of a film. It relies much to heavily on jump scares, fails in its attempt to create atmosphere at every turn, thinking that simply turning down the lights makes a scene scary, and gives new meaning to the word inconsistent all while being an overall boring affair, with glaring errors throughout, in regards to both continuity and logic.
The absolute worst thing about this film, however, has to be the fact that its portrayal of Freddy Krueger is an embarrassment. Credit where it's due, Jackie Earle Haley gave it everything he had, as he always does. However, it was far from enough to make us overlook the character's atrocious new design and needlessly altered backstory.
Moreover, the film is just unbelievably dull. Its attempts at recreating scenes from the original film all fall flat, the original ideas it brings to the table are uninteresting and never elaborated on properly, and the magic of the original that turned the likes of Heather Langenkamp and Robert Englund into horror icons is nowhere to be found.
Of all the horror reboots Platinum Dunes made, A Nightmare on Elm Street takes the cake as the absolute worst.