Rooney Mara has got to be the most boring final girl I've ever seen. And I've seen tons.
Katie. Cassidy. YESSSSSSS! Wish she was in the movie more. SPOILERS:It starts off pretty well but once Kris (katie Cassidy) and her boyfriend Jesse (Thomas Dekker) are voted off of Elm Street we are left with the most boring duo I've seen in my recent horror memory. SPOILER END.
Jackie Earle Haley does a really good job as per usual but I miss Robert Englund. Nostalgia goggles. Some really slick visuals and notable twists of classic Elm Street (1984) sequences. It felt really rushed which meant less time with the characters than in the original series of movies. Even the worst of them(Freddy's Dead), you got to know the kids even just a little bit. I really didn't feel for these guys at all. LOTS of jump scares punctuated by loud music cues. Only a few worked. Wish there was more actual suspense. Never got the sense of desperation from the kids to stay awake. There wasn't a feel of togetherness of the kids bonding through their crazy ordeal. Wish there were more imaginative dream sequences. Freddy reused many of his lines from the previous movies instead of having new ones. None of the deaths are at all imaginative and could've very well happened in the real world. I did like the darker tone and Freddy is a lot more serious and disgusting here. Many scenes that I saw in the trailers never happened. The middle section is a bit boring. I just wish more time was taken to really flesh this out. It just felt rushed. I feel this didn't really live up to it's potential but I appreciated the effort. I liked it but at the same time I didn't. More Katie Cassidy please. The film was at it's best while following her. 5.5 or 6 out of 10.

-Shawn

I completely disagree with you. I thought the beginning was bad and overly rushed, but once Kris and Jesse were killed the story slowed down and got much more interesting. Overall it was a pretty good effort and I'm glad they tried to put a new twist on the character. While not as good as the original, easily better than ALL of the sequels. Good show.

~Zack~

Quoted Text Rooney Mara has got to be the most boring final girl I've ever seen. And I've seen tons.

I wouldn't hold her responsible for that. She played a thin character who was meant to be portrayed as a monotone bore. Pretty much all of the characters were the same way.


Anyway, I thought the movie was just okay. Better than ANOES2/5/6 for sure from a technical-standpoint, but it's probably the most bland entry in the series. I don't see myself remembering anything from this movie in a week or so. Nothing about it was horrendous, but everything about it felt watered-down and ordinary.

I'm not sure how I felt about this movie, saw it last night. It had its moments, I didn't really like how they set everything up but I thought the ending picked up pretty well. It kept me entertained but I was overall pretty disappointed, the trailers promised more for me and I just thought there was so much potential with what they could of done with it yet they chose such a mediocre route. I don't understand the love for Katie Cassidy to be honest, I really don't think she did that good of a job, she was kind of annoying but she seems to have a following somehow. The movie had that classic horror feel though, which hasn't been in too many movies as of recently so I guess that was kind of fun, I had a good time but it's definitely nothing special.

Quoted from Zack While not as good as the original, easily better than ALL of the sequels. Good show.

If this even got near New Nightmare (especially) or Dream Warriors in terms of being any good, they must've filmed a COMPLETELY different script from the one I read...

Artless, brainless, talentless trash, bereft of creativity, style, or anything else enjoyable.  Dark and gritty reboots are by and large idiotic (with all due exception to Christopher Nolan), and this is by far the worst of them all, removing the fun from the franchise while failing to replace it with anything worthwhile whatsoever.  Freddy's lack of creativity makes him seem like a pathetic excuse for a Voorhees knockoff, while the cast, writer, and director work together to create some of the most mind-numbingly moronic dialogue sequences in recent memory.  Offensively loud and totally devoid of anything that could be considered horror, this is not only worse than every Nightmare including 2 and VS Jason, but worse than any film I have seen in theatre in my entire life.  

Freddy's makeup sucked.  The kills sucked.  The "scares" were non-existent.  The direction sucked.  The photography sucked.  The sound was incredibly obnoxious.  Everyone involved creatively in any way with this film did an absolutely terrible job.  The movie is a product of big business and it shows in every boring, suck-ass frame of this artless piece of pandering, pop-culture filth.  Do yourself a favour and go see Girl with the Dragon Tattoo instead.

Quoted from Heretic Artless, brainless, talentless trash, bereft of creativity, style, or anything else enjoyable.  Dark and gritty reboots are by and large idiotic (with all due exception to Christopher Nolan), and this is by far the worst of them all, removing the fun from the franchise while failing to replace it with anything worthwhile whatsoever.  Freddy's lack of creativity makes him seem like a pathetic excuse for a Voorhees knockoff, while the cast, writer, and director work together to create some of the most mind-numbingly moronic dialogue sequences in recent memory.  Offensively loud and totally devoid of anything that could be considered horror, this is not only worse than every Nightmare including 2 and VS Jason, but worse than any film I have seen in theatre in my entire life.   Freddy's makeup sucked.  The kills sucked.  The "scares" were non-existent.  The direction sucked.  The photography sucked.  The sound was incredibly obnoxious.  Everyone involved creatively in any way with this film did an absolutely terrible job.  The movie is a product of big business and it shows in every boring, suck-ass frame of this artless piece of pandering, pop-culture filth.  Do yourself a favour and go see Girl with the Dragon Tattoo instead.

So.......you loved it?

Quoted from Heretic Artless, brainless, talentless trash, bereft of creativity, style, or anything else enjoyable.  Dark and gritty reboots are by and large idiotic (with all due exception to Christopher Nolan), and this is by far the worst of them all, removing the fun from the franchise while failing to replace it with anything worthwhile whatsoever.  Freddy's lack of creativity makes him seem like a pathetic excuse for a Voorhees knockoff, while the cast, writer, and director work together to create some of the most mind-numbingly moronic dialogue sequences in recent memory.  Offensively loud and totally devoid of anything that could be considered horror, this is not only worse than every Nightmare including 2 and VS Jason, but worse than any film I have seen in theatre in my entire life.   Freddy's makeup sucked.  The kills sucked.  The "scares" were non-existent.  The direction sucked.  The photography sucked.  The sound was incredibly obnoxious.  Everyone involved creatively in any way with this film did an absolutely terrible job.  The movie is a product of big business and it shows in every boring, suck-ass frame of this artless piece of pandering, pop-culture filth.  Do yourself a favour and go see Girl with the Dragon Tattoo instead.

It's a Platinum Dunes production, what d'you expect? Logic dictates that - since they suck - everything they make will suck even more. These guys make Uwe Boll look visionary - and that should really not be even remotely possible.

Quoted from sniper It's a Platinum Dunes production, what d'you expect? Logic dictates that - since they suck - everything they make will suck even more. These guys make Uwe Boll look visionary - and that should really not be even remotely possible.

Hey, man, you may not dig Platinum Dunes and that's cool, I completely agree...but please leave Herr Boll outta this!

Quoted from Shawnkjr So.......you loved it?

Correct.  

I guess I hadn't been specifically familiar with Platinum Dunes before.  I checked out their site.  I didn't bother with any of that other bilge they produced, but I like Freddy so I wanted to try this one.  Glad to hear they'll be ruining Near Dark sometime in the future.

Haha, I've actually enjoyed every platinum dunes remake. It truly does worry me how easily I'm entertained.

~Zack~

What's with this movie having no tits in it, not even any cleavage, that was weak, a slasher film MUST have tits, its a rule that should never be broken!

There are only so many drops of water you are going to get from A SHAM WOW!

This series has been so overdone, Along the way, this movie turned into a re occuring nightmare in it's own right.

Then, just when I thought it was over, FREDDY, VERSES, ALIEN, VERSES, JASON VERSES THAT FAT KID FROM WHATS HAPPENING.

At last, it's done. he is dead. And son of a production if FREDDY the franchise the fricken boil on the corner of my drive in days a$$hole somehow regains his blades only to carve another uninspired (except the first and only) stream of movie shit paste squirting from the producers tube into any willings sucker's mind who once again wishes to pay twice for what wasn't  worth the cost to watch in the first place.

I might simply just be pissy though. I will hold judgement until the awards nominations are out.

Shawn.....><

Jordan, when was there ever tits in a Nightmare movie? I think I saw a pair in The Dream Warriors... but yeah, this series never really had a lot of nudity... or gore for that matter. If they toned down the cursing they could be PG13. haha

~Zack~

I thought this was just about average. I'm not familiar with a lot of the previous films in the series so I didn't know some lines/scenes were reused, but I can't say I hated this as much as some people did. It was probably just about what I expected for a horror remake with Michael Bay as a producer.

My brother thought it was quite boring and lost interest before the halfway mark. He normally likes any movie as long as it has gore or stupid explosions whereas I'm picky about which films I like. He said he'd never watch it again so maybe I'm being too nice about it.

I actually enjoyed this movie.

After all the hatred I've thrown toward the horror genre over the past decade I've found myself increasingly enjoying more and more which worries me because I've been starting to dislike my favorite genres which are all the same these days.

The Beauty and The Beast make-up and the plain Jane looking lead girl aside I thought they did a good job breathing new life into this piss poor franchise.

Also I saw tits in the original Nightmare movie when he pulls her into the underwater bathtub world.

They cut that scene from this film because nobody wanted to see her naked.

Quoted from Heretic Glad to hear they'll be ruining Near Dark sometime in the future.

Well, there's hope yet...although they messed up The Hitcher--they relied on  Eric Red's script so much, rewriting it, going back, to and fro, then just cherry picking through Red's script that they wound up giving him a co-script credit!

So...I'd like to think there's hope for Near Dark. I know PD changed its tune on remaking Hitchcock (The Birds) so... call me an optimist.

Yeah. I know.
Pipe Dream.

Fantastically the worst movie I've seen in 5 years.  Easily.  I've seen Youtube video's more entertaining than this shitball.  

Haley as Freddy just didn't do it.  At least Derek Meares was an imposing Jason, regardless of the stupid traps and net shirt.  I couldn't believe how alien Haley was as Freddy.  It was horrible.  He had no intimidation factor.  His make-up looked like something you'd find in a Halloween store.  The whole thing was awful.  All of it.  There were no cohesive characters.  Things just happened.  Cast just came and went and we didn't care why or how.  

There was One time, though, when Haley went to swing at One of the fodder filled cast members and he was so frail and fragile it looked like he actually had to support the gloved hand with his other hand just to have the power to lift it.

Then we got lines like

"I'm just petting him"  "Wake up" "We had the same dream.  Is that even possible?"  "We were just kids... We would've said anything" and the list goes on and on.    This movie is a parody.  A shell of the originals.  And even they sucked.  In reality.

I cannot imagine him coming back for another One.  I just can't.  This franchise, much like the Incredible Hulk and the Punisher needs to be rebooted again and again.  Wash this one away, please.  And I hated the Friday The 13th reboot, but even it was better than this.  Even, dare I say, Halloween 1 and 2, pains me to say that, are better than this.  

Epic bad.

I just re-watched the 1984 (superior) original again for the umpteenth time. Suddenly, it occurred to me something about the remake. Freddy's famous glove.  In the original film, he made the glove to scare small children before he killed them (as Nancy's mother Marge implies as she takes his "knives" out of the heater) but in the update, he only molested the kids, so there was no need for the glove itself. It just shows up in the nightmare.

Quoted from DarrenJamesSeeley I just re-watched the 1984 (superior) original again for the umpteenth time. Suddenly, it occurred to me something about the remake. Freddy's famous glove.  In the original film, he made the glove to scare small children before he killed them (as Nancy's mother Marge implies as she takes his "knives" out of the heater) but in the update, he only molested the kids, so there was no need for the glove itself. It just shows up in the nightmare.

I didn't gather Freddy, in the absurd trash ass remake, did molest the kids.  In fact, they kind of made it seem he was the victim, which was pretty lame.  Kind of made us feel bad for him (Haley), above and beyond being wrong for the part of course.  They did this with Freddy V Jason too, though.  Made us lobby for Jason over Freddy.  It was stupid.  Made it out to be Jason was the retard puppet and Freddy was the mastermind.  Lame.  I could write for these characters better than the so called pros.  I have a script I wrote for fun for Friday The 13th and it's actually pretty original.  Deals with Jason not being the killer, rather he has a brother, with the help of his mother, who exacts his revenge upon the counselors who neglected Jason and ultimately killed him.

It's called "The Incident At Camp Crystal Lake" -- subject to name change.  I wrote 2 drafts of it and put it up.  I might do a rewrite on it now that I'm back to writing again, actually.  Then again, this isn't about Jason so I'll end my rant with -- Everything about the ANOES remake was absolute garbage.  Haley's piss poor rendition, the acting, the story, the whole shebang!

Quoted from Baltis.   I could write for these characters better than the so called pros.

That is also one of the biggest blunders any aspiring writer can make. FI understand you did it for fun, and mean no harm, but the point I'm making is that most of us sometimes forget that scripts can be rewritten/changed to something that does not reflect the sold script at all. The fault of the film's failure (note that as dumb as they were Freddy vs Jason and Elm Street 2010 still made money, how "failure" is seen is subjective) may not be the fault of the (re) written script alone. Although some of the sequels to Elm Street and Friday were written under the gun when old scripts were tossed weeks before production, or films were rushed into production.

Somehow, these writers got assignments or sold a script. They didn't start out as hacks.

Just sayin'.

Quoted from DarrenJamesSeeley That is also one of the biggest blunders any aspiring writer can make. FI understand you did it for fun, and mean no harm, but the point I'm making is that most of us sometimes forget that scripts can be rewritten/changed to something that does not reflect the sold script at all. The fault of the film's failure (note that as dumb as they were Freddy vs Jason and Elm Street 2010 still made money, how "failure" is seen is subjective) may not be the fault of the (re) written script alone. Although some of the sequels to Elm Street and Friday were written under the gun when old scripts were tossed weeks before production, or films were rushed into production. Somehow, these writers got assignments or sold a script. They didn't start out as hacks. Just sayin'.

I've sold scripts.  I have a movie in production as we speak called "Deliver Me Death"; a short film... and another one, a feature length, which hasn't started production;"Dog Pound".  I got really real money for these.  I don't do this for a living, either.   I play guitar in a band.  Hack is as subjective as these movies being considered failures...

Just sayin'.

P.S. I didn't mean to come off rude, by the way.  I realized how I sounded and wanted to come back and say it was as subjective as the above statement.  I come off sounded ruder than I am sometimes.

Quoted from Baltis. I've sold scripts.  I have a movie in production as we speak called "Deliver Me Death"; a short film... and another one, a feature length, which hasn't started production;"Dog Pound".  I got really real money for these.  I don't do this for a living, either.   I play guitar in a band.  Hack is as subjective as these movies being considered failures...

I am not questioning what you may or may not have sold. I hope 'Dog Pound' turns out well. But let's say it gets rewritten by the director /studio and he/they messes the whole thing up. Film is released. Folks think it's a crock and some new writer proclaims "I can write better than that!"

Same thing.

Quoted from DarrenJamesSeeley I am not questioning what you may or may not have sold. I hope 'Dog Pound' turns out well. But let's say it gets rewritten by the director /studio and he/they messes the whole thing up. Film is released. Folks think it's a crock and some new writer proclaims "I can write better than that!" Same thing.

Of course there are other elements that are involved and that's why I went back and edited my post.  I came off sounding rude.  I didn't want that to be the case.  There is always that chance... I think, largely, when you sell to independents and write for budget you don't fall into those traps as easily.  Write by means... Not by pocketbook.  You save those scripts for when you do have that chance.

Quoted from Baltis. Of course there are other elements that are involved and that's why I went back and edited my post.  I came off sounding rude.  I didn't want that to be the case.  There is always that chance... I think, largely, when you sell to independents and write for budget you don't fall into those traps as easily.  Write by means... Not by pocketbook.  You save those scripts for when you do have that chance.

Sounds good.
Of course, just between you and me? I hope that Plat Dunes dumped the Friday The 13th II plans...I'm twisting my fingers that they decide Elm Street II (in 3D) isn't the best thing either.
I'd love to see another jab at Texas Chainsaw if they could, though.

Half of this movie was pretty good. I liked the changes they made to the story, the mystery of whether or not Kruger actually molested them or not was kind of interesting and I really liked the whole prologue with the guy in the diner. Coming in and out of his dream and introducing the idea of those kinds of ideas early in the film was an interesting way of getting the flick out of the gate.

Everything else basically sucked. There was nothing scary about any of the kills, there was no imagination in the dream sequences. Jackie Earl Haley was neither threatening nor amusing and it was impossible to tell any of the characters apart. I kept getting all the leads mixed up because they were emotionless, uninspired and completely uninteresting. I haven't had this much trouble keeping track of people since all the bald guys in Alien 3.

Also, is it just me or did the characters keep falling asleep at extremely strange moments during this film? During class, in the library, in the middle of swim training? Were any of these characters ever actually awake? That seemed fuckin' weird to me.

Waste of time movie. Why do they keep remaking movies that are already as good as they're going to be? I can see why you'd wanna remake something like King Kong, because the technological advances had made it possible to enhance the original ten fold. Hollywood should focus on remaking movies that no one liked. That way if they do it well, then the story finally has a good interpretation, and if not then no one is surprised or disappointed because the original sucked too.

Goddamn Michael Bay. Damn him.

Just saw this on Blu-Ray last night.  What a piece of shit!  Very, very disappointed, as I usually am.

$35 Million budget blown on…on…shit, I don’t know.  FX?  Didn’t look like it.  Big set pieces?  Don’t think so.  Big name actors?  Definitely not.  Who knows.

It raked in $116 Million World Wide, so it’s another big success for Platinum Dunes.  Congrats to them.  How and why it grossed all this is way beyond me.  DVD sales and rentals are also quite big, so we can look forward to a lot more of this garbage.

OK, let the rant begin…

I just don’t understand why 20 something actors are cast as 17 and 18 year olds kids. It just pisses me off to no end.  The cast here ranged in age from 22-25, and for the most part, none of them looked or acted anything remotely close to a 17/18 year old.  Just absolutely ridiculous and stupid.

Casting Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy?  WTF?  Come on now…I have nothing against him as an actor, but this didn’t work and actually makes no sense whatsoever, IMO.  They guy is a whopping 5’ 5”, and 130 pounds after eating a whole turkey dinner.  Far from imposing.  Robert England is no Hulk Hogan, but at least he stood about 5’ 10”.

Freddy’s make-up looked like shit.  I read that it took almost 6 hours to apply at first, and then after they got the hang of it, somewhere around 3 hours, plus a ton of CGI.  It didn’t work.  England’s practical make-up 25 years ago looked better.  Horse shit!

There were so many different angles they could have gone with this.  Being that so much takes place in a dream world, why didn’t they go for it?   Why didn’t they create some cool worlds, some unique stuff?  I’m just shocked how lame the sets were.

And don’t even get me started on the kills and violence, which were just weak.  Nothing stood out at all.

No nudity?  C’mon, man!  Are you frickin’ kidding me?  R rated horror movies need some T & A.  No reason not to offer up some nude babes, or at least some scantily clad bimbos.  Again, just WEAK!

Good point about the glove that was brought up.  In this rehash, there’s absolutely no reason for Freddy to be using his iconic bladed glove.  Another HUGE misstep.

The plot is stupid as well.  They tried to actually bring in some back-story here as to why this all went down, etc.  But they fucked up again, as it didn’t make sense.   Why in the world wouldn’t Freddy just get put in prison?  We’re talking about the mid-late 90’s!  Some whacko molesting children and nothing is done about it?  Yeah, right…

And why all of a sudden, is Freddy coming back for revenge?  Is there any reason whatsoever why this is taking place all of a sudden?  Not that I’m aware of.  Just foolish.

Wait, one more thing…so they throw the kid in jail because they think he killed his girlfriend…and they throw him in a cell with a 43 year old man!  HUH?  WTF is that all about?  Throwing a suspected murderer juvenile in a jail cell with a guy more than twice his age.  I must be missing something, right?  Nope, afraid not.

Based on what I dug up, there were a total of 15 drafts of the script, which were whittled down to 4, and then the final product was a hybrid of those 4.  And this is the best they could come up with?  Well, I guess it really doesn’t matter what the script looked like, cause it made a shitload of money.  No one cares anymore about making a good movie, only a successful one.  And why these loads of crap are successful is just beyond my grasp, I guess.

Pure shit.  I fell asleep 3 times and finally had to reposition myself so I’d be able to see the finale.  Dull, lifeless, cliché-ridden, unoriginal crap!

SPOILERS

I think they tried to sum the whole Nightmare series into this one. Why i think this? There are some memorable scenes in this one from previous movies. For instance, the ending where the girl kills Freddy is an exact rip off from the Freddy vs. Jason ending.

A lot of bad reviews here. Some of them, really bad. And yet, I've noticed this is probably the most bumped movie review of the past year. So I have to ask. Did anyone think this would actually be good? Jeff and Balt, I'm particularly surprised either of you bothered to sit through this so I'm especially curious as to the circumstances in which you guys found yourselves doing so.

Quoted from James McClung A lot of bad reviews here. Some of them, really bad. And yet, I've noticed this is probably the most bumped movie review of the past year. So I have to ask. Did anyone think this would actually be good? Jeff and Balt, I'm particularly surprised either of you bothered to sit through this so I'm especially curious as to the circumstances in which you guys found yourselves doing so.

I often do things I don't like to do to let others know what not to do later in life.  I once sat through a 50cent album and just recently had to listen to Taylor Swift's horrifying shift toned train wreck of an album on a trip back from St.louis.  We do things in this life not because we nessassarily love doing them, rather we have to or have a need to be fair.

But believe me, I played the hell out of my music on the way down there.  

As for this film, to gross that much and to be so grossly miscast is a huge travesty.  Robert England and Wes Craven probably use this film as in inside joke at cocktail parties.  They probably point and laugh at Hailey behind his back -- Hell, they probably do it in front of him.  Lame as dude.  The worst recast I've ever seen.  EVER!  

P.S. This movie was free for PSN users one night I believe.  I think that's how I ended up watching it.  It was on a saturday and Sony had set up a promotional thing... Or I got the redeem code somehow.  In any event I'm sure it was on the Ps3.

I love movies, period...especially horror movies.  I sit through them all.

I did think it could have been decent to good.  No reason it wasn't.  The original, although far from great, was interesting and well done for the most part.  If nothing else, it is iconic and launched an entire slew of sequels, so that's saying something about it.

Normally, I'd see all these flicks in the theater, but money is extremely tight these days, so I see most of them on DVD through Netflix as soon as I can get my hands on them.

We don't even have a review thread for Splice and yet this one gets all the attention.

At least someone mentioned how bad the original was to begin with. None of the so called classic horror films are THAT good if you watch them without the fanatics who defend them to death.

You can only do so much in remaking this shit to make it any better.

W, I actually watched the original last night and was surprised how good it was...and shocked at how much better it was than the $35 Million remake.

I saw Splice last weekend and will throw up a post ASAP.