Nancy, Kris, Quentin, Jesse and Dean all live on Elm Street. At night, they're all having the same dream--of the same man, wearing a tattered red and green striped sweater, a beaten fedora half-concealing a disfigured face and a gardener's glove with knives for fingers. And they're all hearing the same frightening voice... One by one, he terrorizes them within the curved walls of their dreams, where the rules are his, and the only way out is to wake up. But when one of their number dies a violent death, they soon realize that what happens in their dreams happens for real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake. Turning to each other, the four surviving friends try to uncover how they became part of this dark fairytale, hunted by this dark man. Functioning on little to no sleep, they struggle to understand why them, why now, and what their parents aren't telling them. Buried in their past is a debt that has just come due, and to save themselves, they will have to plunge themselves into the mind of the most twisted nightmare of all... Freddy Krueger.Lame. So very lame. Bored at watching people get terrorized lame. How do you pull that off? I guess I should have started by saying that of all the 80s/90s horror movie franchises, Nightmare On Elm Street was my least favorite. Loved Michael Myers, could tolerate Jason Voorhees, Leatherface was scary as hell and never got his fair due, but I was never that into Freddy Krueger. About the only good part of the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise was Freddy's witty banter and sarcasm. You knew that he would kill the kids off one by one and you basically just wondered in what absurd way would the next one die and how funny would Freddy be while doing it. In this one, there was nothing different about any of the deaths whatsoever. More upsetting though is that Freddy didn't even start with the witty ranting until the end of the movie. By the time they got to there, I was ready to leave due to the complete lack of interest in the movie whatsoever.
I do not remotely recommend people wasting their time with this movie. Of all the recent remakes, this is by far and away the lamest one.
