A Nightmare On Elm Street 2010
 

in cinemas Friday.

Yeah..
I've been looking forward to this since early 2009, I just hope it doesnt dissapoint and that I get in.

I've also heard it got bad reviews.. :(

I'll go and see it Friday, going to pre-book tomorrow now. Good luck in getting in Patrick :)

how many nightmare on elstree jokes will George Lamb make this year I wonder

Cool, Hope you enjoy it.
And Thanks Ross :thumbs:

lmfao :joker:

I really want to watch this. It does look really good.

I watched the trailer earlier. It seemed quite true to the original. I am quite interested to see the new version because the original was bloody scary at the time, although not by todays standards. Remakes are not generally well percieved by critics who have seen the original. Maybe the reviews are biased. I keep an open mind until I have seen this version. Maybe it will surprise me.

Well the remake of Friday The 13th was amazing. Just as good as the original if not better, obviously due to todays technology and stuff. It still had the same creepy effect and unexpected jumps.

I heard this movie goes behind the story of Freddie, I heard they wanted to make him scarier so they cut the jokes :(

They also said they look more at how he died and if he really was guilty of the things he was ment to of done to the kids.

Sounds good, although im not that fond on the new look of Freddie.

I can't be bothered to do research but why did they burn him? Obviously something to do with children... did he molest them or just kill them?

The difference here though is that the original Nightmare is a classic of it's kind: intelligent and brilliantly made whereas the first Friday the 13th was just a serviceable scream fest. I think this new one is bound to be a clanger.

If it aint broke, don't try to fix it.

Well we'll have to watch it for ourselves and see. No doubt we'll probably have to agree to disagree but hey ho, that's life.

Disagree about what? That the original Nightmare is a classic and Friday the 13th is just so-so?

Well yeah because I prefer the original Friday the 13th to A Nightmare On Elm Street.

Ok, then we're definitely disagreeing here.

Which is what I said in the first place :S

Not really. I just needed a wee bit of clarification. Yeah, but Nightmare is far superior on every level.

Okay cool.

Apperantly in the originals, he killed them.

In this one they are going with the molest plot and that he use to be a school janitor.

They story is about us trying to guess if hes guilty or not, and I think he comes back to kill because some kids or the parents lied about him.

Oh ace, thanks Paddy.
Yeah I think I'll pre-book this tomorrow and go see a Late showing Friday evening. Come out in the dark then, preferably after midnight... I'll proper cack myself but nevermind :shocked:

The original Nightmare will not be beaten but Perez said it was good so I'll probably go and see it.

I actually want to watch the original Hellraiser now. Haven't seen it in years but I remember it being very graphic and scary.

I liked the original and I've heard mixed things about this one, it'll probably be a Sky Movies job for me. I'm not expecting much though, the only recent horror remake that was as good as the original was Friday the 13th and that's not exactly a hard feat.

It's a remake?!?!? Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

Can't beat the original

It was always going to be a remake sadly.

I just watched 'Wes Cravens New Nightmare' and it got me thinking of how good Robert Englund was at playing Freddy.

New Nightmare and the original were the only ones worth watching really, they ruined his character in the sequels.

Agree.

Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, wasnt that bad though but it doesnt beat the first.
I think Number 2 was horrible tbh, the worst in the series and so is 'Freddies Dead' I think that was the 8th one.

That was when they just killed it completely.

They tried and focuss to much on him being funny and the scare factor wore off.

Robert Englund IS Freddie.

Disappointed they've remade it. Some classics such as this need HANDS OFF!!!!

I also heard this is ment to be a trilogy.


So there will be at least 2 more of these Remaks made.

Well there was plenty 'Nightmares'. So they'll milk it

The second one was AWFUL, probably one of the worst films I've seen. The third one was fun though, the rest....not so much.

I used to quite like New Nightmare until I saw it the other week on TV. I know it tries to go for the whole satire thing. But the central theme of the lead female questioning her own sanity is just incredibly done to death (part of the reason I didn't like Alejandro Amenabar's the Others either) and is has to feature one of the most annoying child actors of all time.

Regarding the remake... a Nightmare on Elm Street is a childhood favourite of me and my cousin's so we will definitely be seeing it, but I don't think it will turn out to be any good... not with Michael Bay's track record.

to be honest 90% of horror movies are badly reviewed! there so harsh on them

Urgh, really not sure about this. The original was such a classic. I fear that they'll A) try to make Freddie a sympathetic character and B) make him so hell bent on revenge that he'll lose all of the quirkiness (not even sure if that's a word) of Robert Englund's Freddie.

And I always prefered the original Friday the 13th to the original Elm Street. But as an entire series, Elm Street was way better.

Very true. And most of the well recieved films are passed off as "thrillers" :rolleyes: Psycho, Halloween, Silence of the Lambs etc

The only horror movie in recent years that springs to mind as getting an unfair reception was the original Wrong Turn. Most of the time though, critics are too soft on horror movies if anything.

It's mainly because 90% of horror films are sh*t.