This movie comes out on Friday. I will be braving derby eve traffic to take my girlfriend to see it for her birthday.

P. interested. The guy that played Rorschach in Watchmen is Freddy, could be probably the only good slasher reboot ever.

I want to see it, it's the only horror movie that has grabbed my attention in many years.

I'm going into it at midnight Friday morning with expectations that it will suck because of Jackie Earle Haley. I'm a bit of a Nightmare fanboy, and a film without Robert Englund in it just seems like it's destined to fail. Not to mention that there were way too many explosions in the full cinematic trailer I saw in the theater before Clash of the Titans.

I'm hoping for an amazing reboot, and for this film to absolutely blow away my expectations. But I expect very little.

It looks like it may be good. I grew up loving the original(s). I'll probably wait for it on Netflix though.

they filmed the diner scene 3 blocks from my old house which is now my brothers house. my friend drove by it and called me to tell me.

That was almost relevant.

I see it ended up being rated R. That's good. There was talk of it being cut to PG13 and after it did really poorly with test audiences, and then they did extensive reshoots.

Samuel Bayer directing and Jackie Earle Haley mean only good things to me.

That was relevant.

I don't know a lot about some of the other actors in this film, but they're going to die anyways so it doesn't really matter. I've been waiting for a "serious" elm street movie.

Apparently Robert Englund is ****ing PUMPED about this ****, which means good things. Especially after how down hill the series went. Almost as bad as Friday the 13th, I was almost expecting a Nightmare on SPACE ELM STREET 2020X 19b

John Connor is in it

And of course, it's a classic horror movie. So I'm gonna see it no matter what.

The last remake I saw was the latest Halloween ... and it was all good till the end, then I wanted to

I heard in the test screenings that they had also tried to make Freddy a sympathetic villain who was wrongly accused to child murder and burned alive by the townspeople. Which is some really lame ass ****.

I hope this has all been changed with the reshoots.

thats what happened to freddy. thats his original back story.

wait, I thought he was a child molester, not killer?

Uh, no, he was acquitted on a technicality even though there was an assload of evidence to prove him guilty. So they burned him alive.

He was charged with molestation and murder of several neighborhood children in Springwood; a crime he actually did commit. However, there was an issue with the prosecution's method of evidence entry (a form that wasn't signed in the correct location) which made all of the prosecution's evidence inadmissible. Because of double jeopardy laws, he could not be tried again for those murders. As such, the parents of those children took it into their own hands and trapped Kreuger in the boiler room at the old power plant where he worked. They burned him alive as their form of street justice.

This is what Freddy has to say about kids:

is that dude wearing makeup?

Yea, Dekker is pretty queer.

edit -
You wouldn't think it with him playing John Connor, and the other roles I have seen him in.

But if you see him not acting, he's a raging homo.

I don't think he's gay. Is that a proposition 8 t-shirt?

If this movie wont let you sleep for two or three days, despite that your 18 or 19, then its good. Thats what the first original did to me.

excuse my bluntness but that dekker kid in #15 looks like a queer emo.

We've already covered it .. And he plays the part too.
Get it. Actor. Looks queer. I said he plays the part. Har har.

Oh, man. I think I took many wacky pills today.

Isn't that the kid who played Zach in Heroes?

Aye, Captain.

Though I had to google that, I didn't think he was on that show. Guess so.

If this movie has a lack of unconvincing slinky arms, I will be disappoint.

They better show the ugly brown tongue sticking out of the phone receiver when a cute chick places the phone to her mouth.

I didn't even know they were remaking it.

Considering I've yet to see a good horror reboot I'm not going to hold my breath.

Halloween doesn't count. Rob Zombie should have stuck to being to that guy not in White Zombie.

With the exception of the latest, I liked the Halloween remake.

Mike is way more bad ass.

Yeah, if you liked extra genericness and took out a lot of the little touches that made the first film awesome.

The Halloween remake is a decent movie... or it would have been if it hadn't been Halloween... If it was just some random slasher or something people would have called it great and said **** like "Rob Zombie was channeling John Carpenter during the making of this film" but since Zombie put his own spin on it people hated it.

It wasn't just his own spin that made it suck, it was the extensive re-write of the character.

Mike Meyers had a mythical quality to him the first time we saw him. A NORMAL person can not endure that much physical punishment and still get up and walk around no big deal. This is why the later movies (which end up not counting, thanks H20 you slimy piece of ****) explored the idea of being commanded by a higher power of magic or whatever. (Which was cooler than getting hit by ****ing lightning and coming back to life as some sort of living spectre like that ******* Jason Voorhees)

Carpenter's method of filming was really interesting and unique for a slasher. It kind of put you in Mike's place. The lighting wasn't ever unbelievable, but it was really ****ing frightening. It made you flick on the light in the hall the first time you saw it. Before you watch the sequels and kind of get a sense of the character the movie really makes you wonder what makes someone flip a ***** like that.

Rob Zombie also ****ed up one of THE MOST IMPORTANT CHARACTERS in Dr Loomis. Malcom Mcdowel is a pretty sweet actor but he can't out-act a ****ing ridiculously ****ty script that turns his character into some useless money-grubbing assface without all the conviction and concern that Donald Pleasence was able to give him.

All in all it was a ****ty idea to put that moron in control of something that didn't need to be as ****ty as his own movies.

it was probably just an excuse to get his wife an other acting job.

She has almost nothing to do with how much that movie sucked, the character essentially doesn't matter until the second movie. Even then she only matters a little.

Oh, yea, I was pissed about Loomis.
The original one was so awesome. Then they make him into that douche bag.

This guy's face in this picture reminds me of Michael Jackson at some point of his celebrity.

Now who wants to play some good ol' Nightmare on Elm Street, eh eh?

(I actually own this, and, with four players, makes for some fun in the "this is so bad and we're messing around" sort of way.)

Screened it tonight.

Plot spoiler, regarding Antony's speculation:
Yes, at one point they lead you to believe he might be innocent, but no, you find out he did in fact do bad things to the kids.

What I thought (a tad spoily):
I'm no horror movie fanboy, and it usually takes a lot for me to enjoy one. That said, I really liked it. Can't say how faithful it is because it's been so long, but a few shots/scenes looked VERY familiar. Freddy's one-liners particularly kept me going: "How's this for a wet dream?!"

i never played the video game but i once played the board game which was basically clue...

I just got back from the film. I have to say that going in with miserable expectations was a boon, because the film exceeded what I anticipated by a mile. Aside from a few nitpicks here and there, I think it was a pretty faithful reimagining of the Nightmare franchise, and it gives room to grow on.

As expected, I didn't like Jackie Earle Haley in the role of Freddy. His voice was too recycled from his Watchmen character, and his face doesn't lend itself to "Freddy". The latter point is moot though because Freddy would've had to be Robert Englund to look like Freddy. Aside from looks and sound, his mannerisms were about 50% there. Half the time he moved slinky and sinisterly like you'd expect Freddy to move, the other half he lumbered about and just looked like your run of the mill brainless psychopath trying to kill whatever got in his way.

The other casting selections were pretty good. The acting was on par with what you'd expect from a horror flick, but there were only a few moments where you thought the actor was going to say, "line" to progress the dialogue.

I was absolutely delighted to see a number of my favorite scenes from the original film reshot for this flick. I won't go into detail to avoid spoilers, but anyone who has seen the original Nightmare will appreciate the little touches here and there, aside from one gratuitous use of CG and some wallpaper that just looked horrible.

In all I'd give the film a solid 8/10. My complaints were minimal, and I found myself really enjoying the film. I'm just a little torn on one thing that I'm not sure is good or bad.. Typically I root for Freddy, but this time around it was easy to root against him.

Only if I get to don the power glove. I'm also surprised you like the movie Yecti. Seems like the movie is being ripped apart from critics and most other casual movie goers.

It definitely has its flaws, but only if you go into it expecting anything more than a slasher film. I went in expecting a *crappy* slasher film, and instead came out pleased with the direction the franchise is heading. YMMV.