A Nightmare On Elm Street Movies: Ranked From Worst To Best

9. A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)

There was never any other real contender for the lowest spot on this list - the A Nightmare On Elm Street remake is the sort of tired, cash-hungry kick in the nuts that makes people protest the idea of remakes in the first place. Although we must come to terms now with the fact that all the greatest horror movies will be subjected to remakes or reboots at some stage or another, at least we can hope that those behind them will do the original some justice. There was some hope for the Nightmare remake, considering that production company Platinum Dunes made a good stab at the Friday The 13th remake a year before, but any hopes were dashed pretty quickly with this uninspired flick. There are a lot of problems with the film, and not least is the lack of Robert Englund to fill Freddy Krueger's boots - Jackie Earle Haley doesn't make a half-bad Freddy, but when Englund is the only other man to have ever played him, it just seems wrong to see anyone else in that striped jumper. It doesn't help that the material he's given is lame; the film doesn't stick exactly to the same plot as the original, but it's pretty damn close, and it doesn't do anything new at all. The only differences really are that the new helpless teens are more annoying, it's flashy rather than atmospheric and the special effects take away more than they really add. Totally unoriginal and wickedly disappointing.