Nightmare On Elm Street
10 April 2012
I don’t suppose Wes Craven knew what he was laying in front of us when he made the first, and best, Nightmare with a bright, shiny-eyed Johnny Depp in 1984. If he had guessed the franchise would run into the 21st century, he might have thought about desisting. Not that this umpteenth variation is awful — it is decently made by Samuel Bayer and well enough acted by its young cast, headed by not-so-young Jackie Earle Haley as Freddie Krueger. But with Elm Street teens Nancy, Kris, Quentin, Jesse and Dean all tormented by the same Freddie nightmares, to call the film patterned to fit would be a blazing understatement.
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Cert: 18
