This is the weakest remake from Platinum Dunes and I can't belive I use to like this movie. The script is terible and the story is trash including the plot and characters. Nancy in this movie is so bland! I understand the actress doesn't like the experience of being in this movie and I be the same too. At least it's better than Freddy's Dead: Final Nightmare (1991). Freddy in this movie look like a fish if you ask me, the make-up for Freddy is bad! I do like Jakie Earl Haley in this movie, his character is well written but he'll never be good as Robert Egland like Thomas Jane will always be the Punisher. This movie is bad but at least they tried. So this is my review on A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), I don't recommend it at all.Score: 3.5/10

To be honest with you, I've watched this movie since it came out, when I was a child, and I didn't understand everything on it. But I've re-watched it today and I thought it was gonna be really bad. For my surprise, the movie is actually good. It's really well made, with good camera techniques and impeccable visual effects (words from someone who knows what is saying). This movie could be a horror masterpiece if they made everything as good as what I mentioned until now. But there were some several problems:-The Freddy's face changed bizarrely from the old A Nightmare on Elm Street movie. Why did they do this? Was it necessary? The Freddy's face from the old movies was absolutely better than this one. His face on this movie looks like a burned baby's face mixed with an adult face... I don't know, it's just strange.-Why does every scriptwriter wants to make a "mind blowing" script when it's not necessary? Like, the revelations you see when you're watching it are already enough. Why did they try to scare people messing up with the movie on the last seconds? Remember that I didn't gave any spoilers, this is something you'll notice when you watch it.Except for those two things that kinda messed up with it, the movie was an exceptional remake. It didn't lost the essence from the old movies. If you love horror movies just like me, then you're going to enjoy it. And yes, it is underrated (like any other horror movie).

Once, the production house of New Line Cinema meant new and groundbreaking films, especially the Nightmare On Elm Street Series, and excluding the terrible part VI - Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, were pretty decent at doing that.So they decide to try and breath life into a long dead Kruger and bring the nightmares back to life for a new set of fans...... er... No.This is a travesty of a reboot. Mistake number one - they try to remake the first film with a few "adjustments" to the storyline to make it fresh and bring it up to date. This isn't fully utilised, as we're living in a modern world with internet, cell phones, and all types of other gizmo's that should have featured in the nightmare-scapes of Krueger's victims. See the tongue, out of the phone in the original part two, Freddy's Revenge, and Freddy's knives becoming syringes in the original part three, Dream Warriors.Mistake number two - Bad direction, Samuel Bayer relies on sound bursts way too much to make his audience jump. This is sloppy directing. With a story most people know, if you're not going to give your audience something new then you have to do a good job of being able to really scare them. There's NO build up of tension or suspense and this creates a lack of atmosphere that was very tangible in the original run.Mistake number three - Bad characterisation. None of the cast appears to have any depth, they all feel more two-dimensional than three. This isn't too bad a thing with the minor characters, but with the main characters, it's essential to create empathy and to feel sadness and terror when their situations take a turn for the worst. The major calamity in this instance is Freddy Krueger, where Robert England made it his own, Jackie Earle Haley comes nowhere near. This is more than a shame as Haley is a good actor, who did a splendid job as Rorschach in Watchmen. If he had produced a character similar in mannerisms, as the Nightmare Krueger, this would have helped make him a more terrifying and powerful character, which Freddy IS. However, this Freddy isn't anybody to be scared of Robert England is still KING!Everything that a horror film should be is missing from this movie.What could have made the movie better?Do Not remake the first film; use a completely different story. Skipp and Spector, two great horror writers helped pen the original part five, The Dream Child. It was also reported they'd wrote a story for the sixth film, "Bastard Son Of A Thousand Maniacs", which is one hell of a title and it went all the way back to Freddy's conception. This would have been an awesome place to start. Add in better characterisations and you're on your way.Then you would have to get a director that understood horror, terror, and suspense, as well as Wes Craven, did.Next, add imagination, which was rife in the original series... a bed cloth twisting and turning itself into a noose, a boy's veins pulled out of his body to make him a human puppet. Come on people nightmares are people's imagination dropped into the Darkside.I wouldn't recommend this to anyone, save your money... or better yet spend it on buying the original film series box set and see how it should be done.

I have been waiting for the 2010 nightmare on elm street since,well,2009. I have been waiting around the time by watching all of the old ones time after time after time. I have to say,even for a Micheal Bay film,it was pretty dark and not all the way sexual,except when they mentioned Freddy Kruger as a child molester,even though in the old ones,he's a child killer.That's the only thing I hated about this movie. Of course in the movie there was nothing to show that he was a molester;he was doing his normal Freddy stuff. So I have to say this wasn't a bad movie. But as far as favorites go, I have to say the 1984 is and always will be the number 1 best. With best to worse,number 1 is the best. 7,3,Freddy vs Jason,the remake,5,6,4,and 2 are from greatest to worst. So that's my scale to show that the remake wasn't really that bad to me.