A Nightmare On Elm Street: 10 Ways The Reboot Can Make It Work
3. A Cast To Care About
Freddy Krueger aside, the thing that really separated the A Nightmare On Elm Street films from the rest of its slasher ilk were the teenagers who tended to populate its world. Where the denizens of Crystal Lake busied themselves smoking pot, boozing and getting laid, the kids of Elm Street were a troubled, traumatised lot, consisting of misfits and outcasts. Not so the cast of the 2010 remake, a bunch as bland and uninteresting as their Freddy. It may have listed Nancy among its characters, but there was no-one to stand up to Freddy as Heather Langenkamp did. To be fair, no-one really cares about the Final Girls anymore, and that's a shame. If a reboot accomplishes anything, hopefully it'll be to give Freddy a foe to be reckoned with. Give us another Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Laurence Fishburne or Patricia Arquette, not... who was in the remake, again?
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.
