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A Nightmare On Elm Street Teaser Trailer / TK

Trailers | September 28, 2009 | Comments (21)

Well, now. This is interesting. Below you’ll find the teaser trailer for the remake/reboot of A Nightmare On Elm Street, directed by Samuel Bayer and starring Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger. It appears, based on the limited footage below, that they’ve taken all of the humor and punnery out of the concept, which, despite my earlier gripes about a lack of humor in horror, is not necessarily a bad thing. After the first couple of entries, this franchise began to eat itself, offering fewer and fewer scares in favor of cheap shock gags and cheesy one-liners. Freddy Krueger ceased to be even remotely scary about halfway through Dream Warriors. After that, they may as well have been cartoons.

On the other hand, given Bayer’s experience with music video and the budget he was given, I expected more out of the dream sequences and landscapes. Overall, the cinematography seems rather bland and uninspired, which would be a shame. But, of course, this is only a couple of minutes of footage, so it’s too soon to get too concerned with that. What is clear is that they’ll be showing more of the history of Krueger, which I am certainly down with, instead of relegating his history to flashbacks and characters referring to it through stories. This is one of the few remakes that I’m sort of looking forward to.

A Nightmare on Elm Street in HD


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Comments

Posted by: Jay at September 28, 2009 10:43 AM

Wait...what's that? Hello Mr. Erection! How's the wife and kids?

Posted by: PissBoy at September 28, 2009 10:43 AM

Awesome Jay. Now my balls are hard too.

Posted by: PissBoy at September 28, 2009 10:46 AM

At least it'll have a wee bit of Beaver in it.

Posted by: TSF at September 28, 2009 10:54 AM

Eh. I've seen better.

Posted by: commanderfunky at September 28, 2009 10:57 AM

I'm with PissBoy. This version of Nightmare looks turgidly terrific.

Posted by: admin at September 28, 2009 11:06 AM

As long as it scores a hard R-rating, I'll be there. As much as I hate remakes (Hello, Mr. Zombie), this looks like it actually has a vision behind it, and the lack of overt humor is a plus.

Posted by: David at September 28, 2009 11:48 AM

I love you guys. Reading the above comments made me SO glad that I'm not the only one who got EXTREMELY exicted, and I do mean EXCITED at viewing this trailer.
Jackie Earle Hailey will be my best friend some day.

I dont even need to ask if its wrong, as I know you'll say it wont, that seeing Jackie-as-Freddie all scared for his life, made me, for the first time, sympathetic for the razor handed nonce.
Seriously, I was all 'OH NO POOR FREDDIE DONT HURT HIM NOOOOOOOOO!!!!'
I think it's because he's pint sized.
I want a Jackie in my pocket, I want to carry him around in my sleeve and launch him at people who irk me.
I can not WAIT for this film, it may indeed be one of the few remakes worth seeing.

Seriously though, Jackie, you might be a wee bit taller than me but I'll carry you around in my pocket and we can hang out. I'll get my old Polly In My Pocket set and you can redecorate.
Call me, B

Posted by: Nadine at September 28, 2009 12:10 PM

A) I'm excited.

B) From producer Michael Bay??!?! How has no one mentioned this?

C) Clancy Brown!!!

Posted by: MM at September 28, 2009 12:26 PM

Sweet.

Posted by: TWoP Fan at September 28, 2009 12:35 PM

Hey, it's a Connie Britton sighting! I hope she gives a sassy, yet inspiring, pep talk to Freddy so that he can go out and win the big game.

Posted by: Abe Froman at September 28, 2009 12:36 PM

Its missing teeth and claws alike...

Posted by: hm15 at September 28, 2009 1:31 PM

This made me suddenly realize the desire for a new "vs." movie. Freddy vs. The Kurgan.

Posted by: Snath at September 28, 2009 1:39 PM

This has a bunch of actors I like in it (Beaver! Gay Zach! Harper's Island Murder Girl!) so I'd be willing to watch them prance about for a while before getting chopped up. And seriously, if Freddie (as it appears in this trailer) is talking through his burnt-shut mouth, that alone is freaky enough to warrant ticket price. *shudder*

Posted by: Shay at September 28, 2009 3:04 PM

I thought Jay would be posting some of the grisly deaths from the original. Little did I know it would be something so much more terrifying.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at September 28, 2009 3:11 PM

Definitely excited about this too. Glad that we finally got a trailer. I knew they were taking the series back in a darker direction which is much better than the one-liner spouting Freddy. @MM- it's produced by Michael Bay because it's being done by Platinum Dunes. They also did the Friday the 13th reboot. Hopefully this one will be better than that was...

Posted by: Matt at September 28, 2009 3:59 PM

I had a dream with Freddy Krueger in it once. We just hung out and shot the shit in front of my house for a while. Every once in a while he'd chase down and murder some random person in the dream, but he'd always just saunter back to where I was and pick up the conversation. He's a good guy. I think that as long as you aren't a descendant of anyone that burned him alive, he's somewhat down with you. That or he just really likes redheads.

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at September 28, 2009 4:37 PM

Fuck you Michael Bay!! You keep your hands off my Jackie! You hear me dickhole?! DON'T FUCK THIS MOVIE UP!

I will cut a bitch.

Posted by: stardust savant at September 28, 2009 8:46 PM

Looks perfectly fine to me. The Freddy franchise is really going to benefit from the improved quality of special effects, which is a large part of what makes the originals campy rather than good.

The humour, however, is an integral and defining characteristic of Freddy and Nightmare as a whole. Obviously a teaser can't really highlight Freddy being funny, but provided that stuff IS in there, this has a good chance of being one of the best horror remakes. Freddy really lends himself well to the possibilities of modern cinema.

Posted by: Steve at September 29, 2009 1:36 AM

it's been more than 20 years since i saw the original, but this trailer just kind of reminded me of it. my only sense of remake, was the burn scars look nastier.

i'm not sure what's worse, remakes that take classics in new innane directions, or remakes that simply refilm a movie completely with new young actors for a teenage audience that won't consider watching something older than their own puberty?

man, when i was young, we looked for old movies to watch and gloried in anything that had some mythic stature by dint of being before our time.

i seem to be hitting this age where I'd rather rewatch old flics (in my time or before) than simper along for the nth remake. I love horror movies, but it seems like the majority of them are remakes now, that's just a wee bit of oversaturation.

maybe some salt and pepper of something that isnt a remake or sequel

Posted by: idleprimate at September 29, 2009 3:53 AM

So the Kurgan killed Kruger? Who knew...

Posted by: fucta14 at September 29, 2009 4:23 AM





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