2010’s “A Nightmare On Elm Street” is as uninspired as 2009’s remake of “Friday The 13th”. If you are a fan of the older instalments in the “Nightmare” series then maybe you’ll want to see more Freddy action with a new coat of paint. However, I always found the earlier movies tedious so I found this a real chore to sit through.

A group of teens begin experiencing horrific nightmares where they are pursued by a vicious maniac. It turns out he’s Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley “Watchmen”), a deceased child molester that abused them years earlier. Now, he has supernatural powers and seems unstoppable.

This is another film with dull teens getting slashed. If you have sat through any of the previous “Nightmare” (or “Friday The 13th”, “I Know What You Did Last Summer”, “Texas Chainsaw” etc…) movies then you know exactly what I am on about. To the credit of the older movies, the make-up on Robert Englund’s Freddy Krueger always looked rather good and Englund always gave a lively performance. In this version, the make-up on Jackie Earle Haley looks awful and his performance is rather stale. I just did not care about any of the characters so I had no reaction to seeing them cut up into pieces.

If you were a fan of the “Friday The 13th” remake then the chance of you liking this are quite high. The first “Nightmare” movie back in 1984 had some original ideas in it but after so many sequels and now a remake, the franchise is just completely worn out. There is no charm to this remake, it’s as soulless as Freddy Krueger himself. Hollywood will no doubt churn out more horror remakes and I would imagine that another “Nightmare” film (a sequel, remake or reboot) will one day be released but I don’t care.