A Nightmare on Elm Street

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

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2010

1h 36m

Horror

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Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man, Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley), terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when one of their number dies violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.

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Critics Consensus

Visually faithful but lacking the depth and subversive twists that made the original so memorable, the Nightmare on Elm Street remake lives up to its title in the worst possible way.

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Candice Frederick

Reel Talk Online

09/11/2017

D+

It's cliched, boring, and anticlimactic.

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Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

09/07/2011

B-

I did jump a few times, and I liked Haley's dour malevolence, but overall, the new Nightmare on Elm Street is a by-the-numbers bad dream.

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Christine Champ

Film.com

05/06/2011

B

Freddy's back -- and he's slicker and more sinister than ever.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Nov 4

1/4

It isn’t just Elm Street that’s affected; you’ll find a nightmare on any street housing a couch potato with the misfortune to be watching this.

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

Oct 6

5/10

As the final word on Elm Street, this is strangely leaden stuff.

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

Sep 11

2/5

Like countless other reboots, this leans into all of the wrong things people liked about this franchise.

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Spencer T

@descendingdarkangel 5d

This is criminally underrated. Sure you can say the original's the best (totally agree), however, this is not far off. The actors are great, so that's not a problem, and you also have to remember this is re-imagined. The fact that it did so bad is ridiculous. Freddy is not a murder here (until the dream world), but rather more pedophiliac here. This is the one take that didn't make as much sense. If he tortured the children before, he should continue to do that when he meets up with them again. Killing them is revenge, but it should be savored. This definitely had some jump scares and it is a standard that will hold up. Anyone watching this with new eyes of whom isn't a critic will see/understand this.

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Edmond B

@Rooki3 Dec 4

Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) is definitely a good movie, but it's the pacing and the details is what makes it a lower rated movie in my opinion. But the way they describe the newer version of Freddy actually makes sense and also paints him as more of a villain than a misunderstood killer, the way they showed what he did to those kids made people (including myself) extremely hate him but people still dislike this movie which is still bizarre to me. Overall I do like this movie but it was just the pacing that made it decent.

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Brandon B

Nov 30

People are harsh on this movie. It is a slasher and does exactly what it is supposed to do. It's a solid remake and the people shitting on it are lame little dorks. The movie is solid

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Blessed A

Nov 30

I would definitely recommend this one. Freddy is always a classic. I grew up on Freddy and I am a fan of all his movies. Watch this one, you wouldn't be disappointed.

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Oliver C.

@ocook005 Nov 27

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) earns a middling 3.5 stars for delivering slick visuals and a moodier take on Freddy, even if it never fully recaptures the unsettling magic of the original.

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John B.

@rjcartoonist69 Nov 12

A darker Freddy? Yes! Jackie Early Harley’s take on the nightmare slasher is a much more menacing one at that & the origin backstory of how he got his burnt appearance was interesting, but by using Wes Craven’s abandoned original premise implemented into the film’s plot, a risky move at that too, hurts the film as a whole…

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Synopsis

Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man, Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley), terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when one of their number dies violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.

Director: Samuel Bayer
Producer: Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller
Screenwriter: Wesley Strick, Eric Heisserer
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Production Co: Platinum Dunes
Rating: R (Language|Disturbing Images|Strong Bloody Horror Violence|Terror)
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 30, 2010, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 1, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $63.1M
Runtime: 1h 36m

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