A College Student’s View Of Nightmare On Elm Street
Fresh off the press, here is the new Nightmare on Elm Street movie review. For all you people who don’t know about Freddy Krueger, he kills people in their dreams, I don’t know who didn’t know that but there it is. (Giving you a heads up, this has spoilers.) The movie was surprisingly good even though it has been redone, and it wasn’t as scary as I would have liked. But still it’s a movie worth seeing.
Riddled with a mixture of surprises, the plot was actually nicely done. This movie misleads the audience into thinking that they are following one main character but they aren’t. The opening guy dies, which makes the audience wonder who the heck the protagonist is supposed to be. The next character suffers the same fate, so you really wonder who the protagonist is. It makes you wonder, is there a protagonist or not, and if this same concept throughout the whole movie until everyone is dead. The movie presents a backstory for Freddy that is well put together, making him out to be possibly innocent, blamed for child molestation, creating a “crimes of the parents” motif.
Most of the characters in the movie are not as fleshed out as Freddy. The burned, nightmare dwelling man, gets completely fleshed out in this movie, even if the reason for him creating the crime is left out. With all the other characters, I kept wondering why they were friends. None of their personalities lined up, but they were so close. It seemed like the writers thought it was interesting that they interacted rather than why.
The action in the movie was steady, especially when you’re not really sure when they are dreaming and when they are awake. And when reality starts to mesh with the nightmare world it becomes more intense. However the audience is still wondering at the end is Freddy the bad guy? I won’t give that away, but I will say the last scene in the movie is confusing. A person dies by Freddy’s hand, but who the heck is dreaming?
Overall this movie is worth seeing. With it being a horror film, there was a plot that held a few surprises along the way. If you are one that loves to be scared then look elsewhere. Nonetheless it still gets a 4 out of 5.
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