Fresh
I did jump a few times, and I liked Haley's dour malevolence, but overall, the new Nightmare on Elm Street is a by-the-numbers bad dream.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Welcome to your new nightmare.
2010 · 1h 35m · R
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Samuel Bayer
Overview
Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when, one by one, they start dying violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.
Director and cast
- Samuel Bayer Director
- Rooney Mara as Nancy Holbrook
- Kyle Gallner as Quentin Smith
- Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger
- Katie Cassidy as Kris Fowles
- Thomas Dekker as Jesse Braun
- Kellan Lutz as Dean Russell
- Clancy Brown as Alan Smith
- Connie Britton as Marge Thompson
- Lia D. Mortensen as Nora Fowles
- Julianna Damm Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
14%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Freddy's back -- and he's slicker and more sinister than ever.
Christine Champ, Film.com
Rotten
It's the Bay touch you feel in the way actors register as body count, characters go undeveloped, and sensation trumps feeling. A nightmare, indeed.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rotten
This is the worst yet from Michael Bay's horror production company Platinum Dunes, which also brought you rubbish re-makes of Halloween and Friday the 13th.
Nigel Floyd, Time Out
Rotten
Jackie Earle Haley's Krueger is a blast, but the child-molester twist is more depressingly clinical than dream-logic harrowing.
Stephen Garrett, Time Out New York
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