Don't Fall Asleep! Here's 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' Teaser!
09.28.09 By: Elisabeth Rappe
Fittingly, Platinum Dunes' remake of A Nightmare On Elm Street popped online via MySpace Trailer Park during the witching hour, and just in time for Halloween. While it's only a teaser, it manages to pack Freddy Krueger's origin story into a few horrifying frames. You actually feel bad for the (alleged?) child molester, something that's due entirely to Jackie Earle Haley. I'm beginning to think he can make you feel sympathetic for just about anyone.
This teaser also offers us the first look at Freddy's new make-up. This has been a rather well-kept secret in these spoiler-happy days, and even at ComicCon they were being quite tight-lipped about what he was going to look like, except that it would be "more extreme" than before. You don't get a very good look at Freddy in this teaser, but I've screen-capped the close-up and ran it through Photoshop. If you don't like it, don't criticize the filmmakers too much, as I've de-shadowed and sharpened quite a bit. (I've included an unedited photo in the gallery below for those more curious.) That said, I'm not sure I'm a fan of it because it looks a little too CGI. (I'm not sure if it is. I'm speaking entirely from ignorance. Our William Goss will soon tell us, he was there!) But it's one look and it's still early in post-production, so I'm not going to judge too harshly. Otherwise, the film looks like a fairly standard and bigger budgeted remake, and more promising than most purely because of Mr. Haley. I think he's going to knock this one out of the park, and scare the sleep out of us.
The trailer is below the jump, and the new Nightmare hits theaters on the very unscary date of April 30, 2010.
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Reader Comments (1 of 1)
warbringerdoomat 9-28-2009
I just hope THEY (not him) can pull it off. I like the idea of not changing his voice to make it sound deeper but more like the inside of his mouth and stuff was burnt up a bit changing the way he talks. Why can't they just release a full pic. of him? That way the fanboys can get their bitching out of the way..... I was for sure they'd go a different direction but it looks pretty close to the first mixed with a little of the second film.
Midnight13at 9-28-2009
With the exception of the prelude of the parents actually burning him, it seems to be very close to the first movie. I hope its not just a paint by numbers remake. I recoginze Tina's death scene, a body in a bodybag (Tina?) being dragged around, and Freddy's glove coming up from the bathtub as scenes directly taken from the first movie. I know its a damned if you do damned if you don't deal, but if you're going to do a movie, even a remake, don't just make the same movie that already exists.
Deniseat 10-02-2009
Why don't they just let horror movie classics be? Let Robert England hold his title forever. Remakes just SUCK like the remake of the wonderful classic of Halowween 1978. I seen the remake by Rob Zombie and in my opinion he RUINED it!. I even fell asleep during the remake at the show. Halloween of 1978 is my all time classic favorite horror movie that I can watch over and over and never get tired of it.Why don't they just let classic movie icons just be?
ginaat 10-12-2009
I was real excited about this when I heard a good actor would be playing Freddy, but after I watched this teaser it looks like Michael Bay will once again try to make too much of an already great movie and it be a complete waste of time. I did't know Michael Bay had anything to do with this until now. Also, it looks as though they're going to take Freddy's original personality out of it. When I go see this, he'd better be cracking jokes while he's these kids' nightmares... or else I probably won't like it.
Kateat 11-07-2009
"I was for sure they'd go a different direction but it looks pretty close to the first mixed with a little of the second film"
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