I truly cannot believe that in 2009, a mainstream movie remake of a beloved classic thought it was a good idea to change it so Freddy is haunting the dreams of kids he fucking molested. That is insane!!! And the end of the movie has Rooney Mara in the little girl outfit she had on when Freddy molested her! WHAT?! This isn't the fun kind of WTF, its the gross, disgusting, who was this movie made for kind of WTF. It's shocking.

It's so ridiculous how they turned the scariest, freakiest guy in horror-movies ever into a creepy little pedophile. Total suckage, to quote @dreagan.

I've always walked around the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street in a huge circle. I've always heard it's horrible. So now that I had finally decided to watch it, it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was. Yes, it did proof that practical effects can look much better than CGI, looking at you Freddy in the wall scene, Jackie Earle Haley isn't Robert Englund, these kids aren't as good as the original, I miss Heather Langenkamp but in the end I was still kinda entertained. It helped the running time was a clean 95 minutes and it helped a lot that I didn't expect anything out of this. Will I rewatch this anytime in the future? For now a big no. In the end though, it didn't end up on my "movies you should never watch" list if my friends ask for advice. So a little win?

I actually didn't mind this remake. The movie was more horror than the original for obvious reasons (better cameras, special effects, etc). I do like the original, but I can also appreciate this remake. The ending was definitely done better than the original. The thing I didn't like was the way Freddy looked. Every time I saw him on screen I internally died. He looks more baby ish and more cleaned up than the original Freddy which I could not get behind.

As someone had who has seen all of The Nightmare on Elm Street movies, I have to say I am very disappointed in this movie. They can never replace Robert Englund with the same energy and drive that he had. I get so disappointed every time I hear a different voice for Freddy. All of the movies before this were much higher energy and it seems like this Freddy Krueger is on some type of antidepressants and isn't motivated like the original.