2010 Nightmare on Elm Street

I went to my first drive-in movie theater this week. I have always wanted to go to one, but because they are far and few between, I had never had the chance.

I went with my boyfriend to see Nightmare on Elm Street. I love horror movies and Wes Cravings Nightmare on Elm Street is truly a horror movie classic, so when I heard they were remaking it I knew it was a must see.

This movie was really in and out of the theater and I was lucky enough to catch it before it was gone for good.

The remake goes pretty much right along with the original film, but when you basically have perfection in a movie, why change it much? It starts off with Dean sitting in a Diner trying desperately to stay away. The waitress and main character Nancy, keeps walking by and waking him up. He friend Kris shows up and Dean breaks down and tells Kris about this nightmare he has been having where a burned man in a red stripped sweater and claws on his hand has been trying to kill him. Kris thinks he just needs sleep and tells him not to worry but as she is standing in front of her, a sleeping Dean cries out “You’re not real! You’re not real!” while a knife plunges into his throat and it appears that he is slitting his own throat. But we all (as the audience) knows that it is really Freddy.

Everyone is traumatized by Deans apparent suicide.

But Freddy doesn’t stop there. Now that Dean has shared his fears with Kris before he died, Kris begins to dream of the burnt man with the claws. Freaked out she allows her boyfriend/ex-boyfriend Jesse to stay the night where they both discover that they have both been dreaming about the man. While Jesse and Kris are in bed, Kris is killed in here sleep…in a very wow way. Jesse freaks out and in an attempt to escape the police he runs to Nancy’s house

Jesse doesn’t escape the police…like in the original…and you can fill in the blanks there.

Nancy turns to her friend Quentin (must say…I love that name) and together they realize that all of them had been in the same preschool together when they had been 5 and not meet in middle school and high school like they had believed. Makes me wonder how they didn’t meet in grade school, it is a small town, but that is just a huge hole in the plot.

Nancy’s mother finally confesses that while they had all been in preschool there had been a grader named Fred Krueger who hurt all the kids. Quentin and Nancy know that this is not the whole truth, but none of the parents are willing to tell them the rest of the story, so Nancy and Quentin set out on a race against the clock to uncover the truth as to what really happened to them in preschool and why Freddy is trying to kill them.

Gwen claims Krueger skipped town before he was arrested. Nancy does not believe her and attempts to track down the remaining kids from the school. Nancy eventually

This is not the worst re-make I have ever seen, and as a true lover of the mystery that makes up a good horror movie, this one lost it, stole it from you. It gave too much away, and told too much of Freddy’s history. But to each their own, but do not expect to be scared in the original Nightmare on Elm Street way (the way even to this day that movie send chills down my back), this one is very predictable and you see every attack right before it happens, nothing is a surprise. I didn’t find myself on the seat of my chair and sucked in by the characters…it didn’t provide me with that. But if you want to jump a little and like horror movies…you should check it out.

And they did…like the original, leaves it open for a sequel. With the budget being $35,000,000 and the worldwide gross revenue for Nightmare on Elm Street 2010 being $100,812,068, I would not be surprised if they did. But as well all know, Part 2 is never as good as Part 1