A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010 Review

If you go into watching this movie expecting to be scared like the original scared you 26 years ago, you will be severely disappointed. In all honesty I think if you have ever seen and enjoyed or were terrified of the original movie then just stay away from the new one because you will not be able to help but expect what was given to you in the original films. I know this starting to sound like a burial but it is not my intention of doing so. It is just this remake was misleading. I will write the synopsis of both the new Nightmare on Elm Street and the original Nightmare on Elm Street. I will then explain why if you have ever seen the original and loved it or were scared to death from it, this is not the movie for you.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010: "Five teenage friends living on one street all dream of a sinister man with a disfigured face, a frightening voice and a gardener's glove with knives for fingers. But when one among them dies, they soon realize that what happens in their dreams happens for real and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake. Buried in their past is a debt that has just come due. To save themselves, they must plunge into the mind of the most twisted nightmare of all: Freddy Krueger. Jackie Earle Haley plays the legendary evildoer in this contemporary REIMAGINING of the seminal horror classic." There is a reason why I bolded and enlarged the word Reimagining.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984: "Years after being burned alive by a mob of angry parents, child murderer Freddy Krueger returns to haunt the dreams -- and reality -- of local teenagers in Wes Craven's spine-chilling slasher classic. As the town's teens begin dropping like flies, Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen (Johnny Depp, in his big-screen debut), devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world."

Now before my comparisons lets get some definitions. Lets start with the word Re Imagining. According to Merriam-Webster.com: Definition of REIMAGINE: to imagine again or anew; especially : to form a new conception of: re-create. Now lets move onto the word Remake: A new version of something; A new, especially updated, version of a film, video game, etc; To make again; To make an enhanced remake of (a computer or video game). Finally I want to get the definition of the word seminal which was used to describe the original movie in the synopsis for the new movie. According to Merriam-Webster.com: Definition of SEMINAL: 1: of, relating to, or consisting of seed or semen 2: containing or contributing the seeds of later development : creative, original.

Okay so according to those definitions the only comparison to the original film should have been Freddy Krueger and the title A Nightmare on Elm Street, or even just the title of the film. However what we got was the same title, two of the same characters and just about every death scene being a carbon copy of the original. Oh yeah and even though it is not in the 2010's synopsis and I must warn those who have not seen the movie yet that this could be considered a spoiler, the new director has changed Freddy Krueger from a Child Murder into a Child Molester. The new mask is a thousand times less creepy than the original and the new guy's voice makes me think of Christian Bale's Batman voice. I am a huge fan of both Halloween series. To me the originals and Rob Zombie's are what an original franchise and re-make or re-imagined franchise are supposed to be. I am a wuss when it comes to scary movies and yet here I am on my second movie review of a scary movie proclaiming from my soap box that this movie did not scare me. When I was a kid I could not watch the original Nightmare on Elm Street before Noon without staying up all night. I slept like a baby after watching the new one at 8pm.

Once again people went to see a scary movie and instead of scares they got startles. The horror movie genre is dead. When we go to see a horror movie we get treated to a bunch of gore or we get a mixture of gore and suspenseful music and something pops up seemingly out of nowhere. I think most people can recover from being startled after a few minutes, however if a person truly gets scared they will fall a sleep with the television on tuned into Cartoon Network.

My Soul to Take Movie Review

This was a homework assignment so that is why some words are bold, some are underlined and others are in italics and the works lol but I thought I would share my opinion on the movie I saw this past Friday night.

I recently saw the movie My Soul to Take directed by Horror Movie icon Wes Craven. Wes Craven is mostly known for two movie franchises and those are A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream. I think a lot of people, my wife included, went into this movie expecting something along the lines of A Nightmare on Elm Street. This was not the case though. Although I like both versions of the Halloween franchises I really do not do scary movies that well, however with that being said this movie did not make me scared. This movie is about a crazy serial killer who does not even know he is the serial killer. He is known as the Riverton Ripper and he suffers from multiple personality disorder. On a stormy night he realizes who he is and tries to call his psychiatrist for help. Well that does not go over very well with the bad personality and he ends up killing his pregnant wife and almost kills his daughter. The police shoot him and everybody thinks he is dead but he is not dead yet. He gets one of the officers guns and shoots the cop and then shoots and kills his psychiatrist, another cop comes in and shoots him a few more times. Well as it turns out they were able to save the baby from the dead pregnant wife and after coming to life again in the ambulance the killer causes the ambulance to crash. That night seven children were born and his soul entered the body of one of them. The movie then jumps a head to sixteen years later which catches up with the seven kids born on that fateful night. The seven kids all know each other and even have a ritual that they do every year out in the woods by the wrecked ambulance. This is a really good movie as long as you go into not expecting Freddy Krueger. My wife went into the theater expecting to be scared silly and I for whatever reason went into the theater not expecting to get scared. I was expecting to be scared a little and to be truly honest I was a little but no where near the levels of Craven's previous work. This movie was also filmed in True D 3D and I am rarely a fan of a movie being in 3D but the 3D effects in My Soul to Take were done amazingly. I think this movie is definitely worth the price of going to see in movie theaters.

Horror movies today are no longer on the same level as horror movies of the past. A Nightmare on Elm Street for example is a lot scarier than My Soul to Take. In all honesty the scariest movie of all time is A Nightmare on Elm Street. No other horror movie character has had a bigger impact on me than Freddy Krueger. To this day I will not watch the original Nightmare on Elm Street at night. Freddy is a character who only exists in dreams which is why I think this movie has had such a larger impact on me than the other horror movie characters like Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees. The Riverton Ripper had a lot of potential but when compared to the horror characters of the past he comes out as one of the lamest characters. My favorite horror movie of all time is Halloween though, and although Freddy Krueger has me too scared to watch at night, I still think Michael Myers is the baddest one of them all. I think Wes Craven was trying to make the Riverton Ripper kind of like Michael Myers but he fell short.

WEEK 5 NFL PICKS

Jacksonville Jaguars at Buffalo Bills: WINNER: JAGUARS

New York Giants @ Houston Texans: WINNER: GIANTS

Kansas City Chiefs @ Indianapolis Colts: WINNER: COLTS

Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ Cincinnati Bengals: WINNER: BENGALS WHO DEY!!

Green Bay Packers @ Washington Redskins: WINNER: REDSKINS

Saint Louis Rams @ Detroit Lions: WINNER: RAMS

Chicago Bears @ Carolina Panthers: WINNER: PANTHERS

Atlanta Falcons @ Cleveland Browns: WINNER: FALCONS

Denver Broncos @ Baltimore Ravens: WINNER: RAVENS

New Orleans Saints @ Arizona Cardinals: WINNER: SAINTS

Tennessee Titans @ Dallas Cowboys: WINNER: COWBOYS

San Diego Chargers @ Oakland Raiders: WINNER: CHARGERS

Philadelphia Eagles @ San Francisco 49ers: WINNER: EAGLES

Minnesota Vikings @ New York Jets: WINNER: VIKINGS

WWE HELL IN A CELL PAY-PER-VIEW RESULTS

WWE Champion Randy Orton vs. Sheamus (Hell in a Cell Match)

My prediction: Sheamus
Result: Randy Orton
Even though I wanted Sheamus to win I am glad Orton pulled out the win. I am tired of title changes every pay per view. I think this is the beginning of a good feud. Sheamus will be champion again soon and I only hope he gets a real title run.
Prediction Record: 0/6

World Heavyweight Champion Kane vs. The Undertaker (Hell in a Cell Match)
My Prediction: Kane
Result: Kane
I knew this storyline wasn't over yet and I am kicking myself for not at least mentioning that Paul Bearer has betrayed Undertaker a few times in the past and could do it again. Kane deserves this long title run and of course the Undertaker retirement rumors have resurfaced.
Prediction Record: 1/6

John Cena vs. Wade Barrett
My Prediction: Wade Barrett
Result: Wade Barrett
John Cena is the newest member to the Nexus. Remember now if your not Nexus your against us. Like I said in my predictions this is not a full heel turn but a test of the waters. If Cena acts heel like by force how will his sales do? Will they be hurt by the heel turn? Will they stay the same? or Will the Cena haters now like him and buy his stuff? If those questions are answered positively for the WWE then in a year maybe sooner we get a true full John Cena heel turn.
Prediction Record: 2/6

U.S. Championship Triple Threat Submissions Count Anywhere Match U.S. Champion Daniel Bryan vs John Morrison vs The Miz
My Prediction: Daniel Bryan
Result: Daniel Bryan
It was a submission match and only one person in the match was billed as a submission expert, Daniel Bryan. I do not think either The Miz or his former tag partner John Morrison have ever made anybody tap out before. This was by far the easiest match to predict.
Prediction Record: 3/6

Unified Divas Champion Michelle McCool vs. Natalya
My Prediction: Natalya via DQ
Result: Natalya via DQ
I told you this was going to happen. I do not know if they are going to go anywhere with this or not, the Divas rarely ever get to have decently developed storylines or feuds. I think Natalya deserves a long run as the Divas champion and had I been in charge of the Pay Per View last night this would have been the first Diva's Hell in a Cell Match and I would have had Natalya win.
Prediction Record: 4/6

There were only five matches when I made the predictions but I did say they would most likely add a match because five matches for the price of a pay per view is just not your money's worth. However I guessed it would be a tag title match but instead it was Edge defeating Jack Swagger so that is why my prediction record is at a final 4/6 if you discount the added match it is a 4/5 with me only missing Sheamus regaining the title but if you read my prediction I was torn on that match and basically chose Sheamus because I am a fan of his. Overall this is probably the best Pay Per View Prediction I have ever done. The next Pay Per View I will try to get my predictions posted sooner so that way our readers can reply with predictions of their own. Until Next Time.