A Nightmare On Elm Street: 10 Ways The Reboot Can Make It Work
6. A Hard 'R'
To be fair to Bayer's instalment, his A Nightmare On Elm Street didn't buckle under the urge to go PG-13 and completely neuter what remained of Fred Krueger. This is, after all, a roasted paedophile who walks around with four knives on the end of his hand. While recent horror films have proven that you don't necessarily need to bring the gore and violence to be effective, Freddy is best left as a man capable of anything. Especially if his censor-friendly antics in the (resoundingly silly) last few bona fide Nightmare sequels are anything to go by. Whether its dragging a girl's naked corpse across the ceiling, burning the word's 'Freddy's back' into a kid's (heh) back, or causing Johnny Depp to erupt from his own bed in a gushing geyser of gore, Freddy has never been one to shy away from spilling a little blood, and neither should his movies.
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.
