Comments on: Every town has an Elm Street.

By: The Rev. D.D.

The Rev. D.D. — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:28:59 +0000

“Oh, I know. I’d be happy with a theatrical re-release of the original Elm Street (maybe an “extended director’s cut,” with “never-before-seen footage” or whatever).”

That’d be nice, especially since I suspect he’d lop off that damn kicker ending too.

By: Manny

Manny — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:12:42 +0000

They did freddy no justice and just makes him look so uber lame its not even funny

By: Chris S.

Chris S. — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:48:28 +0000

They lost me at “From Producer Michael Bay”.

By: rjschwarz

rjschwarz — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:36:12 +0000

They could make him a dual personality. The “good” Freddy thinks he’s asleep when the “Bad” Freddy does his foul deeds. The Good Freddy thinks its all just bad nightmares hes been having. That way they sort of wedge their way into the dream killing thing a bit.

By: Nathan Shumate

Nathan Shumate — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:35:25 +0000

Oh, I know. I’d be happy with a theatrical re-release of the original Elm Street (maybe an “extended director’s cut,” with “never-before-seen footage” or whatever). I think it would do very well.

By: Ken Shinn

Ken Shinn — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:14:31 +0000

Excellent comments.

But, on a far more prosaic level, why the hell bother anyway? The original film is less than 25 years old.

I’ve been irritated by recent remakes of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Amityville Horror, and Hallowe’en to name but three. Is the horror film bank once again so devoid of credit that all they can do is re-sell us EXACTLY the same things?

(Not even a new supernatural/horrific killer…sheesh.)

By: Nathan Shumate

Nathan Shumate — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:48:43 +0000

Joshua, it’s kind of hard to play the Polansky-style “Man-child love is a beautiful thing, and anyway she was asking for it!” card when you’re then slicing her up with razor blades. I think for Freddy to work, he has to be someone who LIKES TO HURT PEOPLE.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:16:05 +0000

Maybe in this version Freddy is in fact an evil murdering pedophile, but he doesn’t see it that way? Isn’t that one of the ways it always plays out: “I didn’t mean to hurt him! I loved him!”

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:28:48 +0000

It might all be some sort of Ring-like twist, where we think he’s innocent at first and then discover that he really is a horrible child-killer. At the same time, they’ve made a lot of movies about him featuring the murderous pedophile angle, so having him as an innocent guy who turns into an unforgivable killing-machine isn’t a terrible idea if they actually want to bring something fresh to the series. That way, even though it’s an old idea in these sorts of films, the parents are clearly wrong for having killed Krueger, while Krueger is clearly an unforgivable monster for exacting his revenge on their innocent children. Everyone gets to be horrible!

By: Anrkist

Anrkist — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:17:01 +0000

It’s good to see Jackie Earle back. I may finally see my vision come to fruition with Bad News Bears… IN SPACE!