Ranking The A Nightmare On Elm Street Films From Worst To Best

One of the countless unnecessary remakes that the mid-to-late noughties spewed out, this highly misguided take on the Elm Street mythos was a bland, forgettable exercise in mediocrity that has very much been forgotten as of late.

It could be argued that the time was right to reboot the Elm Street series, given its long absence from the silver screen and the world of special effects coming on leaps and bounds since its heyday, but this was not the way to go about doing it.

There's plenty of good ideas found throughout, such as the micro-naps plunging characters into the dream world at any given moment, but the film has very little follow-through with any of them and the CGI-heavy aesthetic robs the film of any atmosphere and tension it was trying to build.

Jackie Earl Hayley's interpretation of Freddy Krueger is mostly good, but he really does lack the charisma and physicality that Robert Englund so effortlessly imbued the character with. However, he truly shines when he's out of the heavy prosthesis and playing the human version of Freddy, a weak and troubled janitor who may or may not have been guilty of the crimes he was accused of.