A Nightmare On Elm Street: 10 Ways The Reboot Can Make It Work
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Grim, gritty, realistic.Three adjectives which sum up Platinum Dunes' The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (plus prequel) and Friday The Thirteenth. Three adjectives which should never be applied to A Nightmare On Elm Street - not unless you're talking about a pre-immolation child molester Freddy (which is a really depressing idea for a film - who really wants to see that? Stop asking for that). In our modern world of sky's-the-limit CGI, Inception and Pan's Labyrinth, there's scope to create a visually fantastic - and utterly terrifying - A Nightmare On Elm Street movie, the likes of which Wes Craven's low budget could only dream (heh) of. And yet we were saddled with a remake which was content to simply replay moments from the original movie and whose idea of a dreamscape was a world only barely distinguishable from our own. We've all had boring dreams before, but they shouldn't be the focus of your whole movie.
A film critic and professional writer of over ten years, Joel Harley has a deep and abiding love of all things horror, Batman and Nicolas Cage. He can be found writing online and in print, all over the Internet and in especially good bookstores.
