Movie Review: Nightmare on Elm Street
Saturday, June 05, 2010 @ 6:21 PM | 0 comment(s)

Nancy (Rooney Mara), Kris (Katie Cassidy), Quentin (Kyle Gallner), Jesse (Thomas Dekker) and Dean (Kellan Lutz) all live on Elm Street. At night, they’re all having the same dream – of the same man, wearing a tattered red and green striped sweater, a beaten fedora half-concealing a disfigured face and a gardener’s glove with knives for fingers. And they’re all hearing the same frightening voice...

One by one, he terrorizes them within the curved walls of their dreams, where the rules are his, and the only way out is to wake up.

But when one of their number dies a violent death, they soon realize that what happens in their dreams happens for real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake. Turning to each other, the four surviving friends try to uncover how they became part of this dark fairytale, hunted by this dark man. Functioning on little to no sleep, they struggle to understand why them, why now, and what their parents aren’t telling them.

Buried in their past is a debt that has just come due, and to save themselves, they will have to plunge themselves into the mind of the most twisted nightmare of all... Freddy Krueger. ©



I never really liked watching horror movies in the cinema. It creeps the hell out of me. I’d rather purchase a blue-ray disc and watch it at home. But, life’s all about taking risks. So I did. I didn’t spend a dime on it anyway. Ha!

So, the movie was a bit scary, but it drifts off eventually. It was not the type that I’d be staying awake all night just ‘cause I couldn’t stop thinking about it. It was not something that would level with The Grudge or The Ring or any Japanese-the-monsters-are-pale-white horror films. But I think Freddie Kreuger (I thought it was Crooker before. Deaf) was so cool. Ironically, he liked fire and knives and hanging bloodless bodies upside down. He was more of a butcher-like than an avenging gardener-slash-psycho-slash-maniac. But honestly, my eyes were closed at almost all of the killing scenes. I didn’t like seeing flesh and blood, and if I get shocked, I’d spill my popcorn.

Over all, it was good. The effects and the setting were good. It was not that scary, just bloody. So yeah, see it for yourself.


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