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A Nightmare on Elm Street

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5.5/10 • 2.8K

2010-04-301h 35m

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Welcome to your new nightmare.

Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when, one by one, they start dying violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.

Directors
Samuel Bayer
Characters
Wes Craven
Editors
Glen Scantlebury

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  1. Rooney Mara

    Rooney Mara

    Nancy Holbrook

  2. Kyle Gallner

    Kyle Gallner

    Quentin Smith

  3. Jackie Earle Haley

    Jackie Earle Haley

    Freddy Krueger

  4. Katie Cassidy

    Katie Cassidy

    Kris Fowles

  5. Thomas Dekker

    Thomas Dekker

    Jesse Braun

  6. Kellan Lutz

    Kellan Lutz

    Dean Russell

  7. Clancy Brown

    Clancy Brown

    Alan Smith

  8. Connie Britton

    Connie Britton

    Dr. Gwen Holbrook

  9. Lia D. Mortensen

    Lia D. Mortensen

    Nora Fowles

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Mar 5, 2017

3/10

This is a pretty movie. Its apparent from the start, that this remake of the 1984 classic, has a pretty good sized budget to work with. In fact the budget for this incarnation was $35 Million according to Wikipedia. The budget for the Wes Craven original, $1.8 Million. You don't always get a better movie if your budget is huge, look at Avatar. You just get a really pretty movie that looks polished and has flawless special effects. Again, see Avatar. That movie was nothing but flash. The story is unoriginal and weak... and don't try coming at me with this whole "Shut up man! Avatar proved itself!" shut up! The larger budget in this case makes the movie look too polished to be takes seriously. Why the hell are we caring about watching clones of the Twilight teens being chased by Freddy Kruger? Were not. This movie didn't need a budget of $35 Million. It feels wasted. Some of the appeal of the original came from watching the director be a director and figure scenes out. This movie didn't do that. It felt trite and forced. Freddy Kruger is less of a movie villain in the horror industry and more of an icon. Everyone I knew growing up all had Freddy Kruger nightmares when they were a kid. Perhaps this new version of Freddy will serve to scare the shit out of kids these days. I would hope so. Maybe when they remake this movie again in twenty years they will bitch about it then as well. Who knows.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$35,000,000.00
Revenue
$115,664,037.00
Keywords
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