A Nightmare On Elm Street 3D Sequel?

All together now…groan. So I didn’t like the reboot. And now they’re going to make a sequel. In 3D? Come on. Don’t make me hate something I already dislike. I honestly cannot wait until the we come out of this saddening 3D phase we’re in with movies right now. 3D only wastes your money and ruins a good movie experience or makes a bad one even worse. If Hollywood wants to make 3D films, STOP converting them from 2D. Actually shoot the damn movie with 3D cameras. But until they do, I’m a firm believer that 3D movies nowadays are a waste of effort.

But for business, it’s all good. It attracts a bigger audience who are willing to pay more money than they normally would for the 2D version. Apparently A Nightmare On Elm Street had the biggest horror film opening for the April/May bracket with $32.9 million in it’s first weekend. That has obviously convinced Warner Bros. to make a second one. Here is what producer Bradley Fuller had to say:

We think that 3D movies have to be designed and written as such. If Eric (Heisserer) and Wesley (Strick) came to us with a Nightmare sequel script that is for a 3D movie, we’d be fools not to make it. Using 3D for a Nightmare sequel has to work conceptually for us, though. I don’t want to shoehorn the story just so we can use 3D technology. I do really think this movie and the visual style would work well within a 3D environment, though, so you never know.

There you go. We’re going to get another crap horror film in crap 3D. I just hope Jackie Earle Haley doesn’t agree to do the sequel. He’s just too good for a movie like this.

Source: /Film

A Nightmare On Elm Street Review

The 2010 reboot of this franchise is just a complete mess. For a horror/terror film to be neither scary nor terrifying isn’t so good. I didn’t once jump or twitch in my seat, expecting every shock, surprise and scare from Freddy. I didn’t leave the theater thinking I’d never be able to fall asleep soundly again. The movie just did not deliver on what looked like promising potential in terms of having Oscar-nominee Jackie Earle Haley play Freddy Krueger. The film was, at the end of the day, like a typical, bad, B-grade slasher movie. The typical stuff, you know. A bunch of incompetent, eyeliner-wearing teenagers getting slashed in their dreams by Freddy one by one.

Speaking of Freddy Krueger, you just can’t recreate such an iconic villain. You just can’t. I was hoping for Jackie Earle Haley, who’s one hell of an actor, to be able to pull it off. But at the end of the day, no matter how good an actor they got, it would not have made a difference. This Freddy Krueger was not just not scary but boring as well. Every time he showed up on screen I groaned a little. I was a little disappointed to see that the current Freddy Krueger looks the same as the 1984 version. There were no improvements whatsoever in the makeup, further diminishing the scare factor. The only thing I enjoyed about Freddy Krueger is what I now call the ‘Rorschach voice’. The low growl of Jackie Earle Haley is very distinguishable and I love how it fits in with the character of Freddy.

The movie did one thing for me. It kept me guessing what was real life and what was a dream. I caught it early a couple of times but otherwise I didn’t know if the protagonists were awake or asleep until it was revealed. I wished there was more to the story line. There were absolutely no significant twists or surprises in the plot keeping it dull the whole way through. Even when the story of Freddy Krueger was told towards the end of the film, there was a ‘this doesn’t really matter, we’re just telling you for the hell of it’ vibe.

At the end of the day, the movie doesn’t do anything for me. I was bored, unafraid, uninterested and could not wait for it to end. Go watch this film only if you have a low-threshold for terror. If you don’t, just don’t bother. You’ll be wasting money and time.

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Here are some more pics to look at. (Just because I got the press kit. Hehe.)

A Nightmare On Elm Street Trailer is Incredibly Freaky

It’s been 25 years since the original A Nightmare On Elm Street freaked people out. And since then, we’ve had something like 6 Elm Street movies, if I’m not wrong. Well, next year, we will be getting the reimagining/remake/reboot (whatever they call it these days) of the original.

The best part of the new one will definitely be the actor playing Freddy Krueger – Jackie Earle Haley. Having played Rorschach brilliantly in Watchmen just earlier this year, I cannot think of a better actor to play the infamous Freddy. Check out the trailer below to see for yourself.

A Nightmare On Elm Street is produced by Michael Bay and directed by Samuel Bayer and is slated for release in America April 30. No word of a Malaysian release date just yet.

Shutter Island Poster

This movie, I want to watch so badly. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sir Ben Kingsley, Mark Ruffalo, Emily Mortimer, and Jackie Earle Haley as well as directed by an awesome director in Martin Scorsese, Shutter Island has had it’s Malaysian release date bumped up from early December to October 15 of this year. Check out the cool poster featuring Leo DiCaprio below. Also click here to watch the trailer.

It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.

First Look at Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger

Fans of Freddy Krueger and slasher films in general will be excited this, the first image of Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger in the upcoming remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street directed by Samuel Bayer. Check out the picture below. And the teaser poster further down.

If you have no clue as to who Jackie Earle Haley is, then the picture below should help you a little bit.

Check out the teaser poster for A Nightmare on Elm Street below. It hits theaters April 16, 2010.