Back to the 80's again at the movies......Wes Craven's Freddie Krueger is back in a new A Nightmare on Elm Street. In case you're wondering, and I was, the original was 1984. Can it really be that long ago?
For those who don't remember the first run of Elm Street movies, they were huge hits and Krueger was a pop culture icon that hung around for a few movies, countless Halloween costumes and spoofs and movie references. In the midst of Friday the 13th, Halloween, and tons of other slasher flicks the separator for the Elm Street movies. as the attempt to give the "slasher" some sort of character and background, the why's on the whole thing. Whether you bought it or not, or if that worked for you was up to you.
Jackie Earle Haley is Freddie, and is perfectly cast as our nightmare-ish slasher. Haley was really great as Rorschach in 2009 Watchmen, and this year in his small roll in Shutter Island. He though has been around for years, as a childhood actor and then kicking around in smaller movies, but he has found his niche as strange, off-beat weirdos. and is real good at it. Much of Krueger is exactly the same, burned face, big slashy, knives for hands, and the wise cracking comments before he does his thing.
But Haley is creepy, and if you're gonna breathe new life into this series, he was the perfect choice. The story is what it is. A guy with a grudge, and a bunch of young adults in peril, and all of us wondering why this guys is who he is. If you're looking for a good slasher flick this is your day. There's a bunch of stalking and blood, and enough dream sequences to go around. Rated R and deservedly so. Not for young kids at all. But shamefully some where there today with their parents.
A Nightmare On Elm Street. Jackie Earle Haley is the right guy in the right role that is for sure. But the bigger question is, do we really need to go down this highly successful, well traveled road again? Are they really out of any new ideas?
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