*Movie only review*
For some reason, when I saw adverts for 'A Nightmare on Elm Street', I felt like I HAD to see it. Why I would do this to myself, I don't know. The original is my favourite horror movie ever and I knew that a remake would just wind me up. But I watched it anyway!

A Nightmare on Elm Street -
The remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street was released in 2010.
In the small town of Springwood, a burned man with knives for fingers seems to be stalking a group of teenagers in their dreams.
After one of these teenagers dies in his sleep, Nancy (Rooney Mara) begins to investigate who this man could be and why she is having the same dreams as her friends.
It soon becomes clear that is they fall asleep this lives are in danger and it becomes a race against time to work out how to stop him and to stay awake.

I knew it! -
When I pressed plat on the DVD remote, I had convinced myself to watch this as if it was not a remake and not to let myself get wound up over it. This lasted all of 10 minutes!
And after this, everything about the film annoyed me and I found myself wishing it would hurry up and end.
If they had actually followed the original story, I think I would have been less annoyed. However, there wasn't much of the original storyline included. The only original characters were Freddy and Nancy and they seemed to have tried to but a bit of a prequel at the start (I could have this wrong).
I didn't like the way that the new Freddy was portrayed, his lines were even cheesier than the original and he just sounded like he needed to clear his throat. Fair enough, he looked more like a burns victim than the original Freddy, but didn't look half as scary as the original!
Nancy still had a boyfriend who stood by her and worked just as hard to solve the mystery. Yet his name is now Quentin, not Glen? Their friend is still arrested for murdering his girlfriend. But his name is now Jesse instead of Rod! I didn't really get this as the only reason I could think of for it was that they wanted more modern names, yet Jesse and Quentin seem just as 80s to me as Rod and Glen?
I just didn't get it!
I know I would hate it before I watched it. Especially the new Freddy as I adore Robert Englund! But I thought they might have given some justice to the original story, which they definitely did not!
I would definitely not recommend! And I will never go there again!
Wes Craven and Robert Englund all the way for me!!