Nightmare on Elm Street to be remade

DarkJager

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/30/nightmare_relived/

article wrote:

Transformers director Michael Bay and his partners at the Platinum Dunes production company have been tasked by New Line Cinema to "relaunch" the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise.

Wes Craven’s 1984 slasher classic gave the world the iconic Freddy Krueger, who haunted a total of nine films and two TV series. According to Variety, the new outing will represent a "complete overhaul" of the Nightmare concept.

Please ****ing god, is there anybody other than Michael Bay?? He's going to turn it into a special effects laden piece of sh1t that will completely destroy the Nightmare series...

Personally, I wouldn't mind Rob Zombie giving Nightmare on Elm Street a makeover...

c - 13

My first thought when I saw this title was "By Whom ?". I'm on the fence for this one at present I think. I'm not a fan in general of Michael Bay's stuff but I think he did do a good job on transformers. This however is a completely differnet kettle of fish. I'm a great lover of this series and I can really see it going either way it really depends on how its approached I guess.

Just looked on IMDb it seems Friday the 13th is in the pipeline too?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000881/

Also in the article it says -
"Wes Craven’s 1984 slasher classic gave the world the iconic Freddy Krueger, who haunted a total of nine films and two TV series. "

Whats the ninth film ?
All I can come up with is -
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Freddy's Revenge
Dream Warriors
The Dream Master
The Dream Child
Freddy's Dead
Wes Cravens New Nightmare
Freddy VS Jason

6th

New Nightmare?

Anyway Bay will fcuk this up!

Fysh

Just heard about this. While I don't exactly hold up the existing Nightmare series as any kind of masterpiece (first film was genuinely scary and had some interesting ideas, the rest weren't as good but had some interesting ideas eg the thing with the vein-puppeteering in Dream Warriors), Bay is the last director you want going anywhere near the series. A new Nightmare on Elm Street movie doesn't need a high-budget SFX approach, it needs a solid script with some imaginative set pieces and a director who knows how to create tension around those set pieces.

Now, just to be mean...Imagine Guillermo del Toro directing this. Oh, how I would enjoy such a film.

Creature

Life imitating art? Bay murders films like Freddy murders moronic American teenagers.

Meh anyway like Fysh i never really cared for the NOES series so I'm not really bothered by the news. I'm more bothered that Michael Bay is still making a living as a film maker.

DarkJager

NOES has to be my favorite horror series. I agree that after the first one they went off track, but its the originality of having an anti hero like Freddy Krueger that saved it for me. I'd personally want someone who will remake it with a similar atmosphere to the first.
Stop Freddy cracking off one liners and attempting to be a homicidal comedian, and bring it back to the sinister, emotionless freddy from the 1st movie.

Although with the film in Michael Bays hands, I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up as Freddy vs the fcuking Transformers

EDIT: I think the "9th" movie they are referring to is the appearance of the glove in one of the Friday 13th movies. Not sure though....

Fysh

Technically he appears in Jason Goes To Hell : The Final Friday, although as you mention it's really just the glove appearing at the end so it's a bit of a piss-take if that counts.

Still. Must re-watch the original, picked it up on DVD recently for something like £3.50...

Otis Driftwood

Sigh.
Another of my fave movies to be remade.
Fuggin cog-suggers.
:mad::mad::mad:

c - 13

DarkJager wrote: »

EDIT: I think the "9th" movie they are referring to is the appearance of the glove in one of the Friday 13th movies. Not sure though....

Thats at the very start of New Nightmare isnt it

where the hand comes to life itself and comes up through the car seat ? It turns out that it was all a dream

After a bit of research you can see on the official NOES website there was only ever 8 movies, must just be the article is wrong.

EDIT: Oops, Fysh explained it, case closed

Necronomicon

Never one of my favourites so not really outraged, but, Michael Bay? Really? O_o

TerrorFirmer

Love the films, but not to the extent I see this as overwhelmingly negative....but rather neutral. I think the 2nd was actually my favorite, third one was OK as far as I can remember, rest were pretty poor. Michael Bay seems a strange choice...he's probably busy trying to work explosions into the script as we speak.

DWCommuter

The original was a gem with many remarkably refreshing twists of creativity.

It doesn't need to be remade.

Nor does Hellraiser, Friday the 13th, Evil Dead...............etc etc.

There are just certain horror films that don't need to be remade. Halloween was an exception.

spooky donkey

jasus lads dont knock it till youve seen it. Suprises can happen.

nikki 122

DarkJager wrote: »

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/30/nightmare_relived/



Please ****ing god, is there anybody other than Michael Bay?? He's going to turn it into a special effects laden piece of sh1t that will completely destroy the Nightmare series...

Personally, I wouldn't mind Rob Zombie giving Nightmare on Elm Street a makeover...

I definetly agree originals are the best I wish they would just put the old films back in the cinema! Horror has gone to the dogs!

Tusky

The Thing, Dawn of the Dead, The Fly...all remakes and great films. However, why Michael Bay is involved I dont know.

crimsonpoppy

Tusky wrote: »

The Thing, Dawn of the Dead, The Fly...all remakes and great films. However, why Michael Bay is involved I dont know.

most remakes r crap anyway,just check the likes of,The Fog!The Hitcher!Psycho!need i go on me friend.Watch out 4 Day Of The Dead(V.GOOD)TA TA 4 NOW:eek:

Fysh

Heh, there's a wonderful irony about complaining that the "originals" are the best when we're talking about utterly formulaic slasher franchises.

unreggd

Regardless of who makes wha, ill be there on openin night!

spooky donkey

good point, the reservations of people in this thread and they will all go see it im sure. SO from the point of view of the studio they have won even if we hate it.

Otis Driftwood

^^^^^^

Not me.
Any remakes in the last few years---Dawn of the Dead,Hills Have eyes etc Ive waited until they were on tv or someone I know bought/rented em before viewing.
Twill be the same with this (probable) tripe.

unreggd

nedtheshed wrote: »

^^^^^^

Not me.
Any remakes in the last few years---Dawn of the Dead,Hills Have eyes etc Ive waited until they were on tv or someone I know bought/rented em before viewing.
Twill be the same with this (probable) tripe.

Dawn of the Dead was a great remake, and the Hills Have Eyes remake was much better than the original

Ur plan is pants, as you're missing the chance to see em in the cinema

And why dont you do this with all films???

Otis Driftwood

IMO the Dawn remake sucked,alot.Same goes for HHE.

There are very few movies Ive gone to see in the cinema in the last couple of years.

Last was no country for old men.(loved it)
Theres nothing really on the horizon I have any interest in seeing.

99% of forthcoming movies I want to see wont get cinema releases,wont get millions spent on advertising and wont be seen by shag all people only fans of underground horror.

Recent mainstream horrors,remakes and otherwise sucked so why should I spend my hard earned money seeing them on the big screen?

Modern horror (mostly) sucks and those that dont havnt a hope of getting screenings here.

For that reason my plan isnt pants.

I have no problem with people wanting to watch these movies and enjoying em,what ever floats your boat,they just continually under whelm and disappoint me so I wont be bothering with them.

DWCommuter

Netheshed??? Im not picking on you, just researching.

If I put "Bone Sickness" or "Gateway Meat" on at a festival next week in Ireland...would you pay the ticket price to see it on the big screen????

Otis Driftwood

Yes I would and I would get as many people as possible to go to see em too.