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After a young man supposedly kills himself his friends begin having these nightmares and one by one they are killed as they sleep. Quinton and Nancy must find the answers before they become the next victims. They begin to peice together that their parents are hiding something from them abour a man named Freddy Krueger. For Freddy this is all about revenge for what happened to him.
Freddy Krueger: Why are you screaming? I haven't even cut you yet!
Horror has to be the most predictable genre out there. The thrills are cheap and the dialogue is nowhere near how people would actually talk in a day to day conversation. The biggest problem of all perhaps is that we can see the outcome from a mile away and that can make for a boring film. Sam Bayer is attempting what Rob Zombie did back in 07 with Halloweem and that is to put a modren spin on a iconic horror villian. Freddy is much more psychologically appealing then Michael Myers because unlike Myers Freddy uses his words to taunt his victims and turn their innocent dream worlds into a hellish fight for survival. Freddy has limitless possibilities as he appears only in a dream world where Myers finds himself limited to reality. There is no escaping Freddy Krueger.
Horror a whole genre is supposed to make you cringe in fear, make it so you are afraid to go to sleep at night. Horror films are supposed to make you realize that there are things that happen out there that we do not even want to imagine possible. Somehow modern horror falls short of doing this. Perhaps because they make it all about the shadow that appears when it should not be there or the scaring of the characters by their own friends. Perhaps it comes down the characters coming off as stupid and oblivious to the dangers that surround them. As a kid we will be scared when one character annouces they are going to be brave and go off on their own. When we get older we begin to laugh when characters make this announcement. When people laugh during a horror film it means that the director has a done a bad job of making us feel compassion towards the characters.
Modern horror goes for the classic cheesy lines coupled with the cheap thrills, but that was the 1980's and the special affects can and should be 20 times better then they were back then. Despite all that Nightmare on Elm street is sure to get a sequel because it just took the number one spot at the box office. Lets hope that it is the start of a two part series like Rob Zombie did and not the start of another 6 or 7 part series.
6/10
