Time For A New Nightmare

Now that it’s already March, the big buzz of course is all about the new Nightmare on Elm Street that is due out April 30th of this year, and rightly so. The first Nightmare on Elm Street movie came out back in 1984 and it’s about due for a change. This change is not just being accomplished with a new Freddy, played now by Jackie Earle Haley. It is also coming about due to Nancy’s role now being played by Rooney Mara. We all remember how well Heather Langenkamp did with the role of Nancy all those years ago. She was good, for the time. She was cutesy and smart and she of course was the only one to play the part of Nancy Thompson. So we will finally get to see if someone else can play her role and do it well.

Nancy vs Nancy

Nightmare on Elm Street

I for one am absolutely psyched that this movie has been remade and can’t wait to see how successful both Rooney and Jackie are in playing their iconic roles. The first movie was good. It was scary, it was original, and it made Wes Craven a lot of money. As the movies continued on, I happen to feel that Freddy lost his sinisterness (is that a real word?) and became the king of horrible one-liners. He made more jokes than he scared the movies’ audiences. And I will have to come clean with the fact that I did not root for him when Freddy vs. Jason was released. I will also admit I liked that Jason was the one holding Freddy’s head at the end of the movie. [Of course, a different version of the ending was released and I never saw the alternate where Freddy was holding Jason’s head.] One of the reasons I felt that way was because Freddy became more of a joke than a lethal dream stalker.

Freddy takes on Jason

You can agree or disagree with me on this point. The whole point of this is to say that it is about time that someone decided to put a new face to an old but good horror story. I am really hoping that New Line Cinema and Sam Bayer are able to pull this one off, and not flop horribly like the newest Friday the 13th movie, whose only saving grace was the presence of one Amanda Righetti!

Oh So Hot n Talented Amanda Righetti