Nightmare On Elm Street

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I was one of the very many die hard Freddy fans who did not condone this remake, in fact I was heavily against it, but I always try to go in with an open mind no matter what my expectations are. This remake gave me pretty much what I expected. Unfourtantley Nightmare On Elm Street suffers the same fate that many of the remakes do now a days. For starters it relies way too much on phony jump scares that just don't do the trick for me, and it made the Cardinal mistake of picking an attractive cast instead of pure acting talent. It felt like they were just thrown in there, with the only true exception being Kyle Gallner|Quentin|. I bought into his character all the way, for me he was the heart of the movie, and was one of the reasons this movie managed to make it to the level of average. The reason the original was such a big smash was due to it's creativity, and the horrifying fact that some maniac like Freddy could kill you in your dreams. Nightmare on Elm Stree doesn't know whether to go it's own route, or copy the scenes from the original, so it tries to do both to make the die hard...

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