An average movie

I wasn’t expecting much from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Rooney Mara and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, even though apparently everybody pretty much hated the damned thing when it was released, to be honest, I thought it was actually not bad at all. At least, it was watchable which is rather unique for a modern horror remake delivered by Platinum Dunes. One of the biggest critics about this movie was the fact that it was way too similar to the original version but it didn’t bother me, in the contrary, I thought that it was rather faithful and the mood was decent enough. I also enjoyed the fact that they kept focusing on one character who would turn out to be Freddy’s next victim. It was actually pretty neat because, as a viewer, you would root for them for a while until they got mercilessly killed and it’s too bad they didn’t continue with this concept until the very end. Still, there was plenty of stuff that didn’t work though. For example, if Jackie Earle Haley was a decent choice to take over from Robert Englund, however, they completely messed up Freddy Krueger’s look. Sure, this make-up was maybe more realistic but it was not charismatic at all and it was just a hot mess. Another major issue was that not a single kid did remember going to this school together and none of them remembered either the events that occurred either. Sure, that one of them would suppress these memories would have been fine but all of them? That was some really lazy writing. Anyway, to conclude, even though this movie has a seriously lame reputation, I thought it was actually a decent watch but, of course, it is still a rather useless remake and, if you have the choice, you should always go for the original version directed by Wes Craven.