8 Horror Movies That Told The Audience Too Much
3. A Nightmare On Elm Street - Freddy's Sinister Crimes
Not Wes Craven's iconic 1984 movie, but it's the 2010 A Nightmare on Elm Street remake that's being lambasted here.
In Craven's original picture, there was very much a 'less is more' approach from the legendary filmmaker. That is something that can be applied to the amount of time that Freddy Krueger spends on our screens, and it's also something that can be applied to Freddy's backstory.
That '84 offering gave the horror genre a villain who was a child killer. Where the 2010 do-over told us too much, though, is in how it changed up this element and took it to a whole other level by informing us that Krueger wasn't merely a twisted child killer, he was a child molester, too.
Ahead of the 2010 film's release, many longtime Elm Street fans were already trepidatious about watching a needless remake of an all-time classic. And by then informing its audience that Krueger was a paedophile, that was just another nail in the coffin for those who took the time to watch the A Nightmare on Elm Street remake.
Wes Craven actually originally intended for Freddy to be a child molester in his 1984 movie. The thing is, Wes was wise enough to remove that element of the Krueger character before the film entered production.