A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
A re-imagining of the horror icon Freddy Krueger, a serial-killer who wields a glove with four blades embedded in the fingers and kills people in their dreams, resulting in their real death in reality.
Cast and Information
Directed By: Samuel Bayer
Written By: Wesley Strick, Eric Heisserer
Starring: Clancy Brown, Kyle Gallner, Jackie Earle Haley, Connie Britton, Thomas Dekker, Rooney Mara, Kellan Lutz, Katie Cassidy, Christian Stolte, Lia D. Mortensen, Julianna Damm
Genres: Suspense/Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Franchise: A Nightmare on Elm Street
Country: USA
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Bitch Alert | 20 6% |
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Ironically I wanted to fall asleep badly. But couldn't, 'cause the sound effects were so god-damn loud.
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Barthalen | 23 12% |
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In a way, I feel sorry for the generation that's gonna grow up with this kind of bland "horror" that only relies on jump scares and is just insultingly inane. On the other hand, screw those young and carefree assholes.
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Ytadel | 2 14% |
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(2016 Freddython #9:) Piece of shit. No redeeming characteristics, and far worse than being stupid, it commits the cardinal sin of being boring. Also, when did the council of movie elders get together and vote that B-grade slasher flicks would no longer include female nudity?
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FrederikA | 25 6% |
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Even by the low standards of Platinum Dune, this is terrible - sleepwalking its way through randomly chosen scenes from the original, with absolutely no interest in its source material or ability to scare anyone older than 10. Though Haley was an inspired replacement as Krueger, the most menacing thing he gets to do, is making sparks with the knife-glove, while looking like a melted Barbie-doll.
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| 5 |  |
Paxton | 34 6% |
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Don't forget! Freddy was a pedophile. They slam this idea home to ensure that you don't get caught up in the awkward relationship that viewers had with the slasher films of the eighties. BUT...we all watch those movies to see teens get the axe. So, we WERE rooting for Freddy in some weird, sick way. Not this time. Remember, he's a pedophile. So, who are you left to root for? A 25 year old Rooney Mara playing a highschooler? Nope. Great mystery plotline though. Glad they found out it was Freddy.
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MArkjp | 20 4% |
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There's just no excuse for this. Krueger is a shadow of his former, witty self in this horrible remake. It's a compilation of poorly executed attempts to recreate the best scenes from the original with a minimum of plot and no character development whatsoever. None of the suspense-chok cycles work and all they do is prevent the movie from going anywhere. How could they do this to one of the coolest movie monsters ever?
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| 5 |  |
BillyShears | 25 4% |
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Quentin's Polaroid moments, yikes, "Oh you dont want to see these naked kid pictures of you" *thumbs through a dozen of them* and who falls asleep while swimming. “Never watch again”
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TheDenizen | 50 26% |
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Haley is pretty good as the creepy-as-fuck pedo Freddy, and there's a couple of cool visual concepts and novel kills...but it's not scary at all, and it's not funny at all....it's just kinda there, and it's boring watching the two protagonists slowly and painfully piecing together Freddy's backstory since pretty much everyone in the theater already knew what the story was. Too many weak jump-scares, not enough Freddy cracking jokes.
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| 3 | NadiH | 68 14% |
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While this remake/ reboot does some things well its major flaw is its re-imagining of Freddy himself. The original Freddy was so fascinating that the movie had a thousand sequels to show more of him, and this one is just boring. just a burned dude with knife hands: none of the humor, wackiness, and gross appeal of the original. Also every time this re-does a famous moment from the original they manage to make it look worse than it did over 20 years ago.
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| 3 |  |
hellsditch | 65 12% |
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Horseshit. Dream sequence, exposition, dream sequence, exposition, dream, dream sequence, exposition, dream sequence, exposition, dream sequence, exposition, sequence, exposition JESUSCHRISTENOUGHALREADY. The original had, like, three real dream sequences. And guess what? They are all super memorable. The body bag. The creepy guy whispering Shakespeare. The goat! Freddy's stupid long arms! I would like to "reimagine" a world in which this did not exist. No fun. No fun. This is no fun at all.
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ZombieBuffet | 50 25% |
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Disappointing, but as a Michael Bay production not surprisingly so.
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snivel40 | 65 1% |
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What kind of psychopathic killer from your dreams doesn't have a dominant nose?
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Cinema_Asia | 20 1% |
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The original had some camp charm so they decided to dumb it down even more by going for an extreme version with jump scares every 5 minutes accompanied with loud screeching sound effects, cheesy gore, and doe-eyed breakout wannabe stars flopping around on beds trying to remember what they learned in method acting 101. One of the characters goes to jail half an hour in and then we're left to endure long emo scenes involving concerned adults, web browsing, and poorly acted moments of tension.
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Anselmi86 | 48 22% |
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Surprisingly not terrible. It's almost halfway decent. Jackie Earle Haley brings a lot of darkness to the role. Some of the production design and cinematography are memorable and the editing during the pharmacy is fan-fucking-tastic. The pacing also seems to improve as the story progresses, rather than deteriorate. That being said, character development and attachment is practically non-existent, the dialogue was cheesy, and having Freddy crazily appear behind the victim got old really fast.
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janus | 40 10% |
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Slick photography, JEH was alright, but there's lots of redundant dialogue and it lacks anything as spectacular and surreal as Johnny Depp getting eaten by his bed in the original. I saw a bigass meteor on the way home from the theater, that was pretty cool.
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constantine | 40 7% |
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Well, at least it wasn't as bad as Friday the 13th remake. I love Jackie Earle Haley. He's a brilliant actor but poor diologues definitely wasted his talent. Freddy's sense of humour and sarcasm was killed here successfully. It's the only thing writers achieved actually. At least director of photography tried to do his best, but it's far far away from the surreality and originality of original's killing scenes.
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terrymac | 29 6% |
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Even Jackie Earle Haley, who served up the only decent performance, could not save this; his role stilted by some very poor dialogue. The quality of the acting on show elsewhere was subpar. Perhaps the original Nightmare on Elm Street looks a bit dated now; at the time it was released, however, it was a pretty fresh and enjoyable entry in the slasher canon. This remake brings nothing new to the party, lacking the charm and, crucially, the scares of the original. Boring.
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Jasongirl67 | 45 24% |
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It wasn’t as bad as I expected it to be
But it was bad I feel like everything they changed was wrong and the things that made the original iconic they kept in but didn’t make interesting
Nancy is like a walking depressed zombie
I never got that in the original
I felt like Nancy was a fighter I hated everything about Freddy
His look his voice the dark humor
(Just all wrong if you ask me)
But the biggest cardinal sin changing his backstory
Big No No
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slidercc | 30 29% |
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One of the worst remakes/retellings of any of the good film franchises that have been coming out lately.
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easydiff | 20 10% |
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JA Haley is great, but there's no reason for this movie to exist, really. It has moments of fun, but it tries to be too faithful instead of carving its own bloody path. (and no tongue-phone!)
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ozymandius10 | 31 1% |
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While Haley is a quality actor, he's completely wasted here. They take all of the Robert Englund Freddy's charm and cheesiness away, and replace it with a legit pedophile who says all of his lines with 100% seriousness. It doesn't come off as creepy because Haley's makeup looks so fucking stupid, and the movie is predictable in the worst kind of paint by numbers way. Damn near worthless.
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Dakota99 | 4 29% |
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I don’t think I truly hate this. JEH is a interesting Freddy choice, and I think he is the most consistent part of this film. However, it doesn’t do anything to earn it’s existence. A lot of this film is callbacks to the original, with very little ability to step outside it’s box. It left most of the film’s horror pale in comparison of the movies 25 years before, especially with a huge importance on iffy CGI this go around. It truly just exists to me, and nothing more really.
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adamj1982 | 17 2% |
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I picked this up for $1.99, on Blu Ray even, thinking it might be ok.
I want my $1.99 back
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incendia | 10 5% |
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Complete waste of money.. Very difficult to live up to a classic like "A nightmare on elm street". Neither the special effects neither the cast were able to revive the atmosphere of the original.
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| 1 | Paul Harmon | 40 2% |
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Typical assembly-line made horror film. Slash, scream, die, kill bad guy, he comes back to life.
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HobbesZ | 25 11% |
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Johnny Depp is rolling over in the hole in his bed
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ratedargh | 25 6% |
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What is the point? Slightly better than the worst installments of the first series but there's not an ounce of originality here. It's all piecemeal from other Freddy movies.
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RJMacready | 10 3% |
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Instead of ranting about this, I thought this would suffice.. One, two what a piece of poo Three, four such an incredible bore Five, six I'd rather eat a Twix Seven, Eight the original is great Nine, Ten never watch again
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alix | 45 4% |
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Taken by itself, the film's okay. Decent visuals, not too gorey, like most horror films you see these days. But not scary either. And not ridiculous enough to be funny. As a remake, it completely ruined the original story. Bad dialogue, no building up the tension, missed the whole point of the dream sequences; feels like they've sewn a bunch of scenes together in a hurry. It didn't work.
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misterlizard | 15 17% |
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Worthless cash-in remake. The original isn't without its faults, but has a lot going for it - imaginative and gruesome deaths, an underlying message about children paying for the sins of their parents. and a genuinely iconic horror character. None of that is present here. The scares are limited to loud noise jumpscares, the deaths are insipid versions of the originals, there's no satire or deeper message, and Freddy has lost all his menace and sadistic humour.
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GeorgeBuster | 35 4% |
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Well shot and Rooney Mara played her role quite well. But that's about it, you didn't actually care who lived or died. I believe they could have played with the idea of 'staying awake'. There are all sorts of things they could have down with that. Every second of a horror doesn't have to be doom and gloom. If we actually saw the characters have some fun or connect in anyway, it would have made the 'scary' parts more thrilling.
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Jeb | 20 13% |
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I had hopes that this wouldn't be as near as bad as the F13 remake. Turns out I was wrong. Again. Jackie Earle Haley steals the show as the titular horror icon, while Mara and the rest of the cast desperately struggles to match his performance. The dialogue is some of the worst I've heard this year. Doesn't even compare to the original.
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Vandelay1 | 10 5% |
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Bad Movie
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MovieMan | 35 21% |
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While the 1984 film has aged, its now-familiar jolts still pack more punch than this pic's recycled ones, which sometimes register so tepidly as to cause snickers.
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vheujge | 35 12% |
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Freddy's voice in this is absolutely horrible.
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twincinema | 10 4% |
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There's a lot of reasons why this is bad (those digital effects -- yeesh!), but the decision to make Freddy an actual child molester is still confounding. Sure, it is incredibly scary in reality, but do we really need it in our slashers? Would Friday the 13th have been enhanced if you found out that Jason was a war criminal?
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overrated | 9 4% |
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Yeah not even Haley can be excused, low-key growling Freddy doesn't work. We're constantly plunged into dreamworlds (the original was what, ten minutes max?), none of which are interesting. Too attached to the Elm Street brand with all the callbacks to do its own thing, and overly reliant on what made most of the previous sequels terrible: exploring Freddy's backstory. No one cares.
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kgbelliveau | 70 26% |
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Freddy Krueger is a famous face in the genre of horror. His name is one of the most recognizable names in all of film history. Yet the horror genre is often full of cliches and people claim they will not watch a new horror with the same old characters and yet here we stand with the possibility of a new nightmare franchise in the works. And we arent rolling our eyes with disgust we are embracing this new series. I cannot tell anyone why that is but people are happy about this "re-envisioning"
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DavidBlast | 35 20% |
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Better seen as a supernatural drama than a horror film. Fans of Freddy will (rightfully) rave about the misuse of Haley's talent and Freddy's sadistic potential. He doesn't do a whole lot. An underdeveloped 'did he or didn't he' twist should've been further explored, but the director of 'Green Day' videos has no flair for horror, drama or potential. Mara, however, partly redeems the show, with another strong display of frailty and inner torment. Yes, the rating is influenced by my crush on her.
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Duder | 40 3% |
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The theater was in was soo cold that I think they did it like that so I won't be able to sleep. It gets a bit better in the second half but still quite a bad unscary, quite predictable and boring "horror" movie. If your horror definition is ONLY and ONLY loud sound effects, quite horrifying. The only good parts were Haley's one liners: How's that for a wet dream!! and -Oh God! - No, just me.
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KasperL | 30 10% |
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Dull and disposable.
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wayofthegun | 10 0% |
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I can't find anything positive to say about this at all. Clearly, this was made solely to cash in on the Elm Street franchise recognition. This doesn't improve on the original in any area, the acting is pathetic, and there isn't a single character that the movie develops well enough to make the viewer care about them.
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recklessmess | 56 34% |
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I'm really looking forward to the 2025 remake/reimagination of this one.
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KMcNeil | 1 9% |
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"We got six more minutes to play." And at this point we've still got about 45 min. more to endure. And don't get me wrong: This remake is an endurance test. Haley shows glimpses of promise (primarily in the flashbacks), but is utterly wasted, as we're tasked with feigning interest in The Cast From Glee Minus The Kid In The Wheelchair And The Token Non-White Guys and Girls, as they are ripped apart in predictable, non-scary ways. Docked further points for wasting Clancy Brown.
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moraesfelipe | 25 3% |
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Awful update on the original with absolutely no imagination at all. No wonder that these Platinum Dunes remakes never ignited sequels.
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| Average Percentile 21.23% from 1333 Ratings |  |