A Nightmare On Elm Street: 10 Ways The Reboot Can Make It Work

7. Don't Forget The Hormones

At their heart, the first few A Nightmare On Elm Street movies are about the sexual awakening of their protagonists. This isn't done with much subtlety, but it is effective and it does lend the films a lurid sense of body horror entirely missing from the remake. Sure, it may have completely copied the bit in the bathtub, but it seemed to have no reason for doing it other than the fact that, well, Wes Craven did it. The sexual element was intensified in the much-maligned 1985 sequel, a film which ostensibly sees its protagonist attempt to come to terms with his own burgeoning homosexuality. It's a sweaty, weird and confusing mess of a film, but it is made ten times more interesting than 2010's bland it-is-what-it-is slasher flick. By and large, teenagers are a horny, sleazy lot, so it follows through that their dreams should be too (remember Dream Warriors' Joey?). No-one's arguing for Fifty Shades of Freddy, but a wet dream or two will give this reboot the texture its predecessor was so lacking.