Trailer for the new Nightmare on Elm Street…

Updated on February 25, 2010 By Ken Begg 18 Comments

I kind of don’t care about this.  I mean, the odds that I’d actually get off my ass to go see it are pretty slight. And frankly, I’d be more excited if they just re-released the original Nightmare to theaters, only sans the nauseating ‘sting’ ending.  (Seeing the words, “Producer Michael Bay” isn’t exactly changing my mind, either.)

I guess the only initial thought I had on this was that the ‘kids’ all look like they’re in their mid-’20s.  At least Craven’s high schoolers looked like, you know, high schoolers. They get that Freddy’s supposed to target children, right?

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  • jzimbert

    I still like it better than the new “KarateKung Fu Kid” trailer.

  • Rock Baker

    All I could think was “what’s the point?” They spent all that time and money to tell what looks to be the same story we already know. I’m also confused about remakes that attempt to bring in a new audience, yet count on our familiarity with the property. It looks like all they really did was alter Kruger’s make-up, and if you’re going in a new direction there WHY are you putting it in the trailer? I honestly can’t think of any reason to see this flick, much less in a theater.

  • Foywonder

    I’ll let you in on one of the worst kept secrets in Hollywood right now. Word on the Elm Street remake is that it is a total bomb in the making. Rumors of infighting between the director and the producers and word coming out of the test screenings have been anything but positive. No doubt it will have a huge opening weekend based on name recognition alone, but barring a miraculous eleventh hour reshoot that turns everything around, expect it to fall off the face of the planet once word of mouth disses it into oblivious. They test screened it late last year and the feedback was so negative they did a bunch of reshoots. They just test screened it again and apparently all they did was downgrade the badness from total crap to incredibly lame. Now they are just about out of time to do anymore reshoots. Only thing that gets any praise is the cinematography. By all accounts the remake isn’t scary and it isn’t even gory. In fact, there is so little blood many wonder if they plan to release it PG-13 and fully concede to the tweener audience.

    Oh, well. At least Platinum Dunes planned remake of The Birds is said to be dead in the water. Guess they’ll just have to make their money back with that 3D Friday the 13th remake sequel they have in the pipeline. Jason in 3D – haven’t seen that before, have we?

    FYI – Platinum Dunes lost the rights to Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The company behind the Saw flicks picked up the rights and are planning their own Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake – in 3D. So for those of you keeping score at home, Hollywood is now so stuck in reboot tarpit they’re now working on remakes of remakes less than a decade old.

  • You sir, are a fount of incredibly entertaining information. Thanks.

  • Foywonder

    “You sir, are a fount of incredibly entertaining information. Thanks.”

    It also helps to write for one of the top horror movie websites on the web.

  • the NoES theme was thoroughly explored by the New Nightmare “remake” anyway, in which Freddie started actually menacing a preteen (which is what he was supposed to do before he was killed anwyay).

    While I don’t think Nightmare was one of the great movies of the century, I showed it to my jaded teenage son a few weeks ago and he definitely had the wind up. Why remake with nothing new? New Freddie makeup is hardly worth the effort – any kid with a Fangoria magazine can do that.

  • i will say that I really really hate the new Freddie voice though.

  • Indeed, Dread Central is pretty much a daily stop for me, and then there’s your blog. Thanks for all the great work. I don’t know how you keep working that Sci-Fi Original movie, etc., field; I toiled there for a year or two and it almost killed me. (That’s when they were going killer shark movies and the like forty times a year.)

    I should note that Scott has also put up on Youtube the entire legendary pilot for Poochinski, in which Peter Boyle (man, must he have been grateful for that Everyone Loves Raymond gig) played a crass cop who gets killed and has his soul transferred into the body of his pet bulldog (which in the scenes where he talks to his partner is played by a puppet.) It’s phenomenal. Just search for Poochinski on YouTube.

  • fish eye no miko

    Joke for my fellow MST obsessives:

    Sandy Petersen said: “i will say that I really really hate the new Freddie voice though.”

    So what you’re saying is, “I HATE FREDDIE’S NEW VOICE!”?

    Ken Begg said: “They get that Freddy’s supposed to target children, right?”

    In all fairness, the idea of the first film was that Freddie was going after the teens that WOULD have been kids during his original killing spree. Technically, his victims should have been even younger (look at how young the girl at the beginning of Freddie Vs. Jason was). So instead of ten years (or so, I’m not sure there was a specifically # of years stated) after the original spree, making the kids now teens; maybe this takes place a little after, the the kids are now adults, or nearly.
    Or maybe I’m just giving the filmmakers way too much credit.

    And lastly: I’m not really against the idea of remakes, per se. I squealed with delight over the idea of the new Friday the 13th, and enjoyed it enough to see it twice in the theaters and buy the DVD. But the reason I liked the idea of the F13 was because I thought the original one was somewhat flawed (Alice is far from my favorite Final Girl, even just counting the ones from the F13 films). NoES, OTOH, is good just as it was (except for the “twist” ending; I’m totally with you on that, Ken), so the remake seems pointless.
    TL;DR version: Hollywood needs to stop doing remakes of good movies.

  • Anders

    I’d much rather watch a movie adaptation of Poochinski than a new NoES.


  • Yeah, I got that. Wow I’m a geek. Speaking of, I’ve been chatting at the local comics/games venue, and my fellow nerds all agree; there is no new Freddy, and there never should be. I don’t mean to seem close-minded but Freddy isn’t a figure like Dracula or Frankenstein, centuries old (folklore included) and open to generational re-interpretation. He’s a wholly developed character created by ONE very talented actor, and when Mr England goes on to his reward, I would be happy to let Freddy rest with him. There can be other actors pretending at the role, but they’re no more “Freddy” than an 8 year old with a cheap plastic Halloween costume.
    Deadpool was not in ‘Wolverine:Origins’, Malcolm McDowell is not Doc Loomis, and there is no new Freddy movie.
    Petulant old fart out.

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  • Petoht

    The thing about the new NoES, and something I mentioned to my wife the second I saw the trailer, is that, more than any other 80’s slasher, NoES is strongly tied with the big bad and the big bad’s voice.

    Replacing Michael Meyers or Leatherface with someone new is less of an issue, as they’re were just a large hunk of murderous meat, but Freddy actually talked. Replacing him is thus so much harder.

    Having a lame-ass script won’t help matters.

  • BeckoningChasm

    In regard to Mr. Englund’s identification with Freddy, and his irreplaceability of same, you might want to consider a fellow named Leonard Nimoy and his iconic character. Audiences didn’t have much of a problem, Summer of ’09.

  • monoceros4

    Audiences didn’t have much of a problem, Summer of ‘09.

    The movie wasn’t as fortunate but I guess that’s more excusable these days.

  • Petoht

    Audiences didn’t have much of a problem, Summer of ‘09.

    Actually, I did. Largely because I couldn’t see him as anything but Syler with pointy ears. Likewise, the Kirk character didn’t seem quite right either.

    Frankly, only Urban as McCoy and Pegg as Scott fully worked for me. With an honorable mention to Yelchin’s Chekov, even though it felt like more of a caricature than anything.

    Further, I would argue that Englund is more critical for Freddy because of the make-up. A good number of people had no idea what Englund looked like, so all the had was his voice.

  • Elizabeth

    Robert Englund isn’t even too old to play Freddy anymore! He doesn’t need to be replaced.

    New voice is boring and new makeup is probably more accurate to what a burn victim actually looks like, but that also makes it kind of boring. Seen it before.

  • Plus, I’m not sure a ‘realistic’ make-up even makes sense in this context. Freddy is a dream figure, he should look like a dream version of a burn victim, not necessarily a real-life one.