A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

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Movie
German title A Nightmare on Elm Street
Original title A Nightmare on Elm Street
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2010
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 14
Rod
Director Samuel Bayer
script Wesley Strick
Eric Heisserer
production Michael Bay
Richard Brener
Mike Drake
music Steve Jablonsky
camera Jeff Cutter
cut Glen Scantlebury
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A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 2010 American horror film and a remake of the 1984 Wes Craven horror film of the same name . The starring role of the brand-scarred child killer Freddy Krueger was played by Jackie Earle Haley and directed by Samuel Bayer .

The US commercials read: "Welcome To Your New Nightmare"; "Never Sleep Again"; "He Knows Where You Sleep".

The start date for German cinemas was May 20, 2010 and for Austria May 21, 2010.

action

The teenager Dean Russel falls asleep while he is sitting at a table in the Springwood Diner. In his dream he meets a man disfigured by terrible burns who is wearing a red and green striped sweater and a glove studded with blades . His classmate Kris watches Dean cry over and over again: "You are not real". Dean has a knife in his hand with which he supposedly slits his own throat. In fact, his throat is cut by the killer in the dream.

At Dean's funeral, Kris sees a photo of him and herself as children, but she can't remember knowing Dean before high school . Shortly afterwards, she too is attacked in her dreams by the scary man with the burns and then refuses to sleep again for fear that she might be killed in her dreams. She falls asleep in the company of her ex-boyfriend Jesse. Kris thinks she will wake up after a short chase, but is killed by the nightmare figure shortly afterwards. Stained over and over with Kris's blood, Jesse runs to Nancy and tries to tell her what happened. He learns that Nancy also has nightmares about the same man; she also knows his name: Freddy.

Jesse is suspected of killing Kris, arrested, and shortly afterwards murdered by Freddy after falling asleep in his prison cell. After the death of her friends, Nancy begins researching what she has in common with the others in the past, and finds that they all went to the same preschool where - she learns from her mother - there is a gardener named " Fred Krueger ”who has molested a number of children, and that Nancy was his favorite victim. Her mother tells her that Krueger went into hiding before he could be arrested.

During a short sleep, Quentin finds out in a dream what really happened to Freddy Krueger : The angry parents of the abused children tracked him down and burned him alive without his guilt clearly being proven. Nancy and Quentin now decide to return to their old school in order to revive their repressed traumatic memories and to find out the truth about Krueger. On the way Nancy falls asleep and is attacked by Freddy. When she is startled, she realizes that she has brought a piece of fabric from Krueger's sweater from the dream world into reality.

Quentin takes Nancy to the hospital for treatment for the wounds Freddy left on her arm. But they flee before the doctor can calm Nancy down. Quentin steals syringes with artificial adrenaline . He tries to keep awake with the stolen adrenaline preparations, while Nancy refuses them. For a short time it looks as if both of them have fallen asleep, because Freddy appears in front of the car in which the two are sitting and causes an accident. They reach school slowly and both find it difficult to separate dream world from reality. Together, Quentin and Nancy Krueger discover the secret “playroom” with its “magic cage”, which proves that the nightmare monster actually sexually abused the children during its lifetime, among other things.

Nancy now seems to know what to do: She wants to fall asleep to bring Freddy into her world. However, Quentin also falls asleep and is wounded by Freddy in a dream. Meanwhile, Nancy fights with Freddy, who explains to her that it is not possible for her boyfriend to wake her because she is already over night. The badly injured Quentin then uses Nancy as a last resort to free her from Freddy's violence, a syringe filled with adrenaline. As a result, Nancy succeeds in taking Freddy into a reality in which he is also vulnerable. After a fierce fight, she manages to first sever Freddy's hand and glove and then cut his throat. Nancy burns his body, the room and with it the entire school. However, one of the firefighters who arrived later said that no body was found.

Back home, her mother advises Nancy to finally get some sleep. Suddenly Krueger appears in the mirror and kills her mother before he pulls her body to himself in the mirror and Nancy stays behind screaming.

reception

Reviews

The film received mostly negative reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes , only 26 of the total of 174 reviews were positive, which corresponds to a rating of 15 percent. The consensus says that the remake remains true to the original "visually", but lacks its "depth" and "subversive twists". Metacritic gave a score of 35 percent based on 25 reviews.

Cinema said that “the alternation between reality and dream was properly staged”, but that Samuel Bayer did not create “his own disturbing visions”, but was only concerned with “matching the tone of the original and its iconic images to imitate ”. In addition, the film lacks "interesting characters". Jackie Earle Haley knows how to give Freddy "in the finale a viciousness that the black- humored appearances of his legendary predecessor Robert Englund sometimes lacked", but after "90 minutes of superficial horror and missed opportunities" this could no longer save anything. As a result, it was said: "With the handbrake on, you should keep your hands off classic remakes."

The lexicon of international films denied the main actor any “charisma” and was of the opinion that because of the “extremely unimaginative” script and the “low-atmosphere” production, the film could only develop a “certain tension” for those viewers “for whom the original was not is known ".

Gross profit

With a budget of around US $ 35 million, the film generated worldwide revenues of around US $ 116 million.

backgrounds

In 2008 it was announced that Wes Craven was reissuing his horror film. In 2009, Jackie Earle Haley was announced as the new Freddy Krueger . Robert Englund stated in an interview that he had not been asked for the role, and that he also thinks it is right to break new ground with a remake and to hire a new actor accordingly.

Filming began on May 5, 2009 in Chicago . The film opened in American cinemas on April 30, 2010. The scriptwriters are Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer .

In the scene where Quentin Smith, played by actor Kyle Gallner , stands next to the white lockers in the hallway at Springwood High School and talks to Nancy Holbrook, played by actress Rooney Mara , who is a self-painted picture of the nightmare character Freddy Krueger stowed in her locker, Quentin wears a gray T-shirt from the British post-punk band Joy Division under an open jacket , with the cover of the 1980 album Closer printed on the chest. When Quentin later sat in the Powell's Book Store and was using a laptop to research a digital database about the connection between sleep deprivation and insomnia with mental performance and psychosis , various historical paintings appear on the screen, such as the images The Sleep of Reason Bears Monsters and Saturn devours one of his children by the early 19th century Spanish painter Francisco de Goya . In the same bookstore, Quentin shows his girlfriend Nancy a book from the German saga Der Rattenfänger von Hameln (in English: Pied Piper of Hamelin ), as Quentin recognizes some parallels between the literary Pied Piper and Freddy Krueger: Both characters make children disappear, one with one Flute, the other with his razor glove.

Web links

Commons : A Nightmare on Elm Street  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release to A Nightmare on Elm Street . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 569 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for A Nightmare on Elm Street . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Reviews on Rotten Tomatoes
  4. ↑ Reviews on Metacritic
  5. ↑ Cinema.de: film review
  6. ↑ A Nightmare on Elm Street. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  7. ↑ A Nightmare on Elm Street. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .
  8. ↑ And Your New Freddy Krueger Is ...
  9. ^ "Nightmare on Elm Street" remake is coming. In: www.space-view.de. December 13, 2008, archived from the original on February 26, 2009 ; Retrieved July 6, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Remake of "Nightmare on Elm Street" - Freddy Krueger is back