What I Liked: Pass.
What I Didn’t Like: All.
Overall Impressions: The big question I kept asking
myself while watching was “what was the drive behind this remake?” And the only answer I can come up with is
this was a pure cash grab. To be clear
not all remakes are inherently bad but there needs to be a reason to dig up the
old material. A new twist on the story,
a bigger budget with more resources available, rearrangement of events,
etc. The 2010 Nightmare doesn’t
do any of this. The only thing is they
employed a lot of CGI tricks to pump up the dream scenes and make the deaths
gorier.
I don’t think Jackie Earle Haley (Alita: Battle Angel)
is very good as Freddy Krueger either.
Part of it isn’t his fault because they CGI-ed his burnt face too much
and the ADR for his voice doesn’t sound or line up quite right with what’s on
screen. Maybe it was intentional to make
the voice sound detached from the body but I thought it came off more like a
poor dub job. Even with that Haley looks
a bit too short in stature and he doesn’t seem totally comfortable with his
knife glove. The movements are sorta
awkward like he didn’t want to copy Robert Englund but hadn’t figured out his
own effective maneuvers yet.
Anyway, this film is instantly forgettable. There are too many callbacks to the original
and no cool unique moments of its own. Again,
they’re just banking off name recognition and duping long time fans of the
series. This makes perfect sense
considering this was the last of the Michael Bay produced horror reboots he did
in the 2000’s which included The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Amityville
Horror, The Hitcher and Friday the 13th. And even though they all made a lot of money,
including Nightmare, none are held in high regard. In fact they’re pretty heavily disliked by
most. Don’t waste your time.
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