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Someone please tell me what the purpose was to remake such a classic! In a way, I felt this way going into the cinema but the reason why I saw it was because I wanted to see what it was like seeing as I love the original and to compare them together. Not only was it one of the biggest pieces of crap that I have seen in a long time but it was something that I just laughed at because of how pathetic it was! Despite it having better effects than the original and having seeing the original I knew what was going to happen, there wasn't just any suspenseful moments where I was scared at all.
Well, the acting was the worst thing about so-called "Nightmare On Elm Street"! The entire cast might as well shit on Wes Craven and Robert Englund's laps while they're at it! I had started to like Jackie Earle Haley as an actor like his great performance in Watchmen and he seemed like he was going to be a good Freddy Krueger from the trailer but he was TOTALLY miscast for Freddy! I know that Freddy is quite a hard character to play but he needed to be scary and he didn't need to be annoying which unfortunately turned out to be what Haley was like. Englund was a lot scarier and he made Freddy like a really scary, sinister psycho but Haley made him look like a zombie! His voice was a real pain in the arse too. I bet that Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner and Katie Cassidy who played Nancy, Quentin and Kris aren't even professional actors. They're probably amateurs.
Samuel Bayer, are you fucking mad?! Thinking you was able to make the remake better than the original? Uhh… don't think so!! It was badly filmed with a boring pace that I personally feel didn't have any traditional suspense to it at all! To be honest, it is quite typical that Michael Bay has produced it seeing as he hasn't been in the good books of cinema at the moment with his mega disappointing film Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen. Michael Bay tries too hard and it backfires every time!
Overall, A Nightmare On Elm Street is an absolutely appalling, boring, chaotic disaster that was laughably awful and couldn't have gone any worse! Even the effects didn't save this film! If this doesn't win the Razzie for worst remake/sequel or even Worst Picture, I'll be majorly pissed off! Goddamn you Bayer, Bay and Haley!!
2/10
