Out of most of the event at Comic-con this year, I kept going back to three major developments. A Nightmare on Elm Street, now don’t get me wrong – I don’t think this reboot/remake/re-imagination was necessary, but from what I have heard from production excerpts, they seem to be doing things right. Now I saw what they did with Friday The 13th first hand opening weekend; and I was pissed. Don’t do it to me again Bay. Where the Wild Things Are, this is looking to be a best movie of the year contender, everything I want from a movie. This flick is going to touch me all over I just know it. And finally…leave it to crazy Gary Oldman to open his mouth and potentially give out some Batman 3 news that he was not supposed to.
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Friday, July 24th, 2009unoriginal hollywood: elm street remake
Thursday, March 5th, 2009A Nightmare on Elm Street is to be rebooted on April 16th 2010 says New Line. I woke up to this and decided to skip brekfast and just puke up last nights pizza pop. Directed by Samuel Bayer, who? Well he Directed the video for SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT. Who is going to play the new Freddy Krueger? Well the picture below shows one of the many rumors. Let the twitter begin.
Some folks use it for killing, I use it to
make french fried potaters Mmm.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Friday, February 13th, 2009
My favorite of all horror movies. Wes Craven’s intelligent premise, combined with the horrifying Freddy Krueger make for one of the best movies ever. Say what you will about the sequels but the series holds a premise that can’t be matched today. We get horror movies today with quick edits and absurd sound effects that make us jump, but where is the damaging afterthought? Wes Craven claimed to have drawn inspiration for this movie from incidents involving young Cambodians, all of whom died while apparently in the throes of a horrific nightmare. The story goes that first these young, otherwise healthy people would have a horrible nightmare, then refuse to sleep for as long as possible; when they finally fell asleep from sheer exhaustion they awoke with screaming and writhing, then died from a heart attack.
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