The new Nightmare on Elm Street remake
 

July 23, 2008


Cinemagoers are set to experience an entirely new Nightmare on Elm Street, with Warner Bros. today hiring a scribe to pen a remake of the horror classic.

Wesley Strick, who knows a thing or two about scares having written Arachnophobia, Cape Fear and Wolf in the early 1990s, has been charged with the task of re-imagining the scare-fest for a new generation.

According to Variety, Strick's re-boot will retain the original's high school setting, but delve deeper into the psychology of the razor-gloved serial killer Freddy Krueger.

Warner hopes to have the film in cinemas in 2009, to coincide with the original's 25th anniversary.

Damn it. :(

What did you expect?

Zombie's Halloween intro is bound to influence similar-themed remakes. :rolleyes:

Freddy Krueger has a psychology?

But Halloween never dived into his psychology. He was evil from the moment God of Thunder started playing. His family just happened to be a bunch of mean assholes.

It seems the wrong way to go, to me. Krueger is an undead demon ghost supernatural being thing that can get in your dreams. To show a backstory for him will serve to "humanize" him- but do you want a humanized nightmare?

If they do it right I think this will be great, because I've always wanted to see more of Freddy when he's human. But I don't really want him to have a reason for being evil. I just hope they show him when he was a human more.

Isn't that the case for every movie?

Well, thats the big three finished...what slasher will they shit on next?

Did you mean Michael, Freddy, and Jason or Michael, Freddy, and Leatherface? Or did you miss one?

Anywho, The Child's Play remake is up next.

But I don't just mean okay, like some ideas where they can only go so far. I mean it will be brilliant. But odds are they'll mess it up. Wonder if Englund will return. He still fits the part.

I can't imagine the movie being even halfway decent if Englund doesn't play him. It's hard for me to think anyone else could do the role justice at this point.

I don't think Englund will return.They'll probably want some pretty boy actor to play Freddy.:rolleyes: < Bullshit.I think it will probably suck.Next they'll probably go after....hm....I don't know.:(

hm, yes, let's delve deep into the psychological backstory of why and more importantly HOW, a madman forced his soul into a doll.....yeah man, I'm peeing my pants for that remake:cool:

How much more psychology can you squeeze out of this bastard son of a 100 maniacs?

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I'd like to see it delve deeper into the psychology of the victims. Give them dreams that actually relate to their characters, dreams they would have. Instead of just walking around outside.

Ummmm the back history of Freddy is he was a child molester and murderer. Does anyone really want to see them delve into that ? Basically it would be a kiddie snuff film if they "did it right". If they felt the classic version needed a change, why not just cut out that stupid ending scene and leave it as is ? :rolleyes:
CK

I don't remember once hearing in any of the movies that he molested the children.

You are correct. It stated that he was a child "murderer", not "molester". There is a bit of a difference.

I think they may have said molester in Freddy Vs. Jason...But that doesn't really count.

ugh ! Please don't make me go through them all now for references (knee deep in editing at the moment for a filmfest deadline). I remember for sure at some point it was stated "Freddy loves children, especially little girls" and it was definitely not a warm meaning. More like a creepy Michael Jackson thing. Part of the problem with franchises like 'Elm Street' and 'Halloween' is they continually decide to go in different directions at some point and viewers are "not supposed to count" this movie or that in the sequels because it doesn't fit the current movie being released (ala the return of Jamie Lee Curtis after she was "dead" for a few installments). Just another typical way to insult your intelligence by the studios in search of more money :rolleyes:
CK

You're referring to Freddy vs Jason. And they could have just meant he enjoyed killing the little girls more than the boys.

That's still not a direct quote to say "molester". As Massacre Man said, he could simply enjoy killing girls, more so than boys.

Kind of like in a lot of the other movies that involve people getting killed. Look at High Tension. It wasn't a rape and molest. It was a drive to kill women. Same thing could be done with A Nightmare On Elm Street.

As far as Halloween, after the 3rd one, they were really strange, and partially, didn't make sense. The Nightmare On Elm Street followed fairly close to it's roots, throughout the entire franchise.

Freddy Vs. Jason, in my opinion, does not count as one of the Nightmare On Elm Street series films. It's closer to a Friday The 13th. And come on, if you're going to say that, Freddy Vs. Jason counts, how about Freddy Vs. The Ghostbusters? Or Freddy Vs. Jay and Silent Bob? It's not really much to the series. It didn't add anything, and didn't have a whole lot of reference to the original films stories. It's more like a spin-off. Kind of like a lot of the old TV Shows, that used the same characters, but nothing to do with another shows story and script.

That would be like saying, Nosferatu wasn't a scary, evil kind of vampire, because Bela Lugosi as Dracula, was a more warm-hearted, gentleman type. It's the original that is what counts. Not what someone says down the line. If that was the case, everyone would be in court, every weekend, filing something about someone that they lost the day before. It would be an ongoing battle that would never cease.

I think the only reason they added the "Freddy likes little girls", part to the script, was to put something in there, relating to today's society. He didn't start off as a molester, and he still isn't. It's never been stated that he is.

It was the way it was said that implies it and to me that made Freddy much more darker and sinister, esp after some sequels that made him a wise-cracking character. People seem to have forgotten that he was a child killer to begin with (and maybe/ maybe not a child molester as we are debating). There is something wrong when the audience was later rooting for him to kill uppity teens for a bigger, better body count to hear one liners. The original was bad ass since it didn't pander to that nonsense and I feel that is why it is a classic.
I somehow missed 'Freddy vs Jay and Silent Bob'. I'm guessing this wasn't considered a part of the franchise like the 'Halloween' movies we were later supposed to ignore since they didn't fit the timeline (or the fact that Jamie Lee returning to the series would bring back fans en masse).
Bottom line is there is nothing wrong with the original 'Elm St' movie (except the ending in my opinion). Remake something that tanked, wasn't scary, and would actually be better off remade if studios insist on this trend. They're already working their way from the top of the list down so no surprise if it gets to that. I guess they start remaking the remakes next that didn't bring in top dollar the first time around (ala 'Black Christmas', 'The Omen', 'When A Stranger Calls'). You have to wonder what the executives ever watch in their spare time to greenlight these messes and seriously think it's a good idea for anyone.
CK

my opinion on remakes has changed a bit.....I feel isolated in that I appreciate all these older horror films and everyone who looks at my DVD collection is like "whaaat?" so remakes, as long as they do the movie some justice, bring in a new audience.

He killed teenagers.....like we need alot of them around?:D

The was uncalled for. :(

No, no...the OTHER teenagers;)

Ouch. :(

Ahhh, nuts to you Ferretchucker!

If Englund doesn't play the part of Freddy, I'll be passing on this shit.

Yeah...That kind of burns...Because I'm still about 9 months from being 20.

I'm like 7 months away from being 20.But I act like a kid so....yeah.Put that in your crack-pipe and.....HEY LOOK IT'S A KITTY!

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that would be really kool, i cant wait ,;)

You do realize I am totally kidding

No, because you aren't.

WTF??
Is everyone on their period lately?
It wasn't meant in the vein everyone is taking it.
Fuck this.

You're the one wishing death on teenagers.

I was kidding... I'm sure all the other teenagers were as well.

Without teenagers, there wouldn't be horror movie franchises. Teenagers are the body count fodder that most of the industry revolves around :D
I think it was the late, great George Carlin who once said "you want to kill them- they're living in your house and eating out of your fridge".
Anybody see anything good lately that's not a remake/ based on a Japanese movie/ or full length Saturday Night Live sketch ? I'm doing a zombie short currently and not exactly breaking new ground with it myself.
CK

August 11, 2008


So we know that Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes production company has plans to remake Wes Craven's horror classic A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. The entire movie would get the facelift that an appropriate budget would provide, including a new dream-dwelling mass murderer.

But who could possibly replace Robert Englund as the iconic rake-handed Freddy Krueger?

How about Oscar-winning actor Billy Bob Thornton?

It's just a rumor at this point -- but it was initiated by the original Freddy himself. Robert Englund was on the late night radio show Loveline last week to promote JACK BROOKS, MONSTER SLAYER (and discuss sex, I guess), and was inevitably asked about the NIGHTMARE reboot. And Englund stated that the last gossip he heard was that Thornton could be slipping on the sweater and burn makeup for the role.

Englund also claims he's not opposed to being replaced (as he says, he already made the movie), or the remake itself, since he feels it's the sort of movie that deserves a bigger budget for the dreamscape special effects (they ran out of money while making the first movie).

Thornton seems like the kind of dude who's receptive to any sort of material, and he does have an existing Bay connection from ARMAGEDDON. Food for thought (or nightmares)!

I could see Thornton in the role for sure...it would be a different take, but he could definately pull it off.