Movie: A Nightmare on Elm Street

This was never posted about a week before Halloween...

So with Halloween just around the corner we rented A Nightmare on Elm Street and invited a bunch of friends over for a late, late night movie night.

There was a much richer mysterious element to the original film and to my surprise, much more creative. I thought the kills and nightmare sequences would be vastly improved upon, but alas, gigabytes, green screens and CGI can not compete with hands-on creativity.  

You know you have problems when Freddy is revealed five minutes into the film. Not in a silhouette, but in full make-up. Right away we know the writers aren't looking to create suspense. That's what made the first one work. It's never a mystery as to who or what Freddy is. Granted, with all his popularity, it might seem pointless to keep him hidden, but it would've made his character a hell of a lot scarier.