Fun fact: in the original nightmare on elm street film, freddy was suppose to be a molester instead of a murderer... however the film makers didn't want to do that so they went for a murderer instead.
This film is so underrated. The cast is great, the characters are likeable, the plot is solid. It's not just a typical shot for shot carbon copy of the original, it is in it's own way original. No, nobody can outperform Robert Englund as Freddy, that's a fact. HOWEVER, take nothing away from Jackie Earle Hayley's performance. He was very dark and sadistic. Jackie played a great Freddy. There is no real reason to hate this film but there are many reasons to like it. *EDIT* I will say, they missed a GOLDEN opportunity in making Freddy innocent.
Robert Englund would be best described as being funny as I saw nothing funny about JEH's portrayal. It was downright sinister and sadistic. Not taking away from Englund as he greatly combined fear with dark humor but I just prefer JEH's performance more But yeah, totally agree otherwise
Fuckin' A. I could also have see something like what went down at the McMartin Pre-school happening to him. Kids being coerced to come up with wild stories about how he "hurt" them. Then the parents kill him... That could've been alright...
yeah that would have been good theirs a few fanfictions going round like that saying the kids played rough with each other and blamed Freddy so they wouldnt get into trouble
Fun fact: This Freddy's backstory is closer to the one Wes Craven originally intended for original Freddy to be a pedophile rather than a child murderer. Craven had to change him into a child murderer, however, to avoid being accused of exploiting a spate of highly publicized child molestation cases that occurred in California around the time of the original film's production.
@@EdwardC.WilliamsII It was never really comfirmed that he was but there were some implications, I just prefer him as a Child murderer than a child molester.
***** i heard once that in the original wes craven wanted to make freddy a child molester but there was a big case going on at the time with a guy molesting kids and he didn't want people to think he was trying to profit off the kids.
They never mentioned in old films but they for sure hinted at it ton of times that freddy like kids You keep to re watch old films if you think Freddy didn't The new film just rams it down your throat
Yep! The bath scene from the original ANOES movie hinted that Krueger had something else planned for Nancy.. As well as some other scenes, but to me, the bath scene was the most noticeable.
I also remembered the parts where Freddy licks Nancy’s mouth when she answered the phone and when approached Nancy saying “ come to Freddy” and wiggles his tongue out at her.
Yeah, it's definitely there in the original 84 film in a subtle way. For example: When he's flicking his tongue while chasing Heather Langenkamp in the boiler room during the school dream. Or, when Marge says "he was a filthy child murderer.")
I never cared for the Pedo Aspect, I think the Child Killer aspect is more horrifying as ya think you can trust someone who's the springwood slasher and then you NEVER SEE your kids again. A Pedophile is disgusting & horrible for a kid cuz they had to live through that but you still have them in your life to care for To me Freddy was better as the Springwood Slasher
...Yes and no. Mostly agree, I'd just phrase it differently - I don't think the Child Killer aspect is 'more horrifying', it's more *suitable* for a *horror film* imo. Pedophile rapists are scary in their own way, but mostly just plain disgusting! They don't build any fascination for me, and I think that aspect - the latent fascination - is among the most important for any Slasher. Original Freddy was a Pied Piper with horrific charm, this is just. Preschool Pedo Jones. Maybe slightly scary but overall just pisses me off more than he could ever entertain me.
Interesting enough, there may have been hints of this in the original Nightmare on Elm Street. Nancy's mother describes Freddy as being a filthy child murderer . So maybe he didn't just kill the kids.
Whats intersting about this movie is that it portaits vividly the child abuse-suprese memory issue.If you see it from another point some of them were on meds and depressive because of the childhood trauma and either suicide or kill another(you could easily assumed that Dean suicide and Jesse killed Kris out of jealousy,then kill him self.)And the hall fighting journy of Nancy is to remember and get over her abuse in order to move on with a new boyfriend.
In the original, Freddy was put on trial, but because of an unsigned warrant and drunk judge he was released, resulting in the adults banding together to torch him in his old boiler room. In the remake, they don't go to the police because they didn't want to have to bring their kids into a courtroom so they could testify on what he did to them. They wanted to spare their kids of telling everyone all he did knowing how painful it was for them to have to talk about it with so many strangers. They all could've been tried for murder without hard evidence aside from the cuts and such on their bodies.
You haven't seen most child molesters then. They're usually friends of the families, always so loving to the kids. Such "nice" people can hide the darkest things.
Well said. And speaking of preschools with dark secrets, this Badham Preschool scene makes us think of the other movies, UNSPEAKABLE ACTS, and DO YOU KNOW THE MUFFIN NAN?.
Seifer Creed I did have add block for a while but I needed to take it off to run something....any ad in general on TH-cam I automatically curse like a sailor and mute or skip it lol.
I actually like the remake, a lot of people don't like how he's just a child molester and *then* starts to kill. Even though in the original it was subtly hinted at and referenced to in Freddy Vs Jason so i don't understand why everyone's against the idea, it makes him even more sinister in someways. I also kinda like the "did he really?" twist they throw near the end even though its pretty obvious once they find the preschool. I really did enjoy this movie and i suggest watching the alternative ending for those who haven't seen it, its in true Nightmare fashion and even shows Nancy's character grow and have a proper end.
Honestly Freddy may have been one in the original. I mean why else would he kill those children? Not to mention when Marge is telling Nancy about Freddy she says “he was a FILTHY child murderer”….. “Filthy” is an interesting yet weird choice of words like why not say “evil” or “awful” or something that didn’t mean dirty or disgusting? I never ruled that out and I never thought Freddy was likable. I mean I praise Robert for his acting in the original but I never liked the character of Freddy.
Timingchameleon But then he wouldn't be Freddy. Freddy as a character is someone who KNOWS how malicious and vile he is and makes no apologies for it, opting instead to be worse to maintain the fear he causes in his victims. By making him a victim of circumstance, it makes him nothing more than another run of the mill slasher who was wronged in his past life.
My uncle Jeff tried out to be the camera man in this scene and got the part. They brought him on set but ended up using someone else. It was okay though he got to visit the set and watch them film this scene. He had lots of fun!🎃
So he molested the whole class? Now I know doing that to a child causes Serious Trauma especially to the mind but shouldn't at least one of these kids go DOES ANYONE REMEMBER BEING TOUCHED BY FREDDY?!?!
All the kids had therapy and they can make you forget horrible memory's and replace them with good memories. So they wouldn't remember being in the same preschool with the other children and Freddy.
Wes Craven's original idea for Freddy was a child molester, but he had to change it to child murderer to avoid contreversey. This movie brings the original idea to life, and it makes Freddy become more disturbing than ever before.
At first I actually felt bad for Freddy. As the movie built up to the point where he looked innocent I genuinely felt upset for Freddy, but then he went and fucked all that up in the end.
In the original script for the first nightmare movie, Freddy was supposed to be a child molester. However at the time there was a bunch of big child molestation cases popping up in California, so they decided to make him a child "murderer" so that noone would accuse them of taking advantage of the real-life court cases. So instead, they changed him to a child murderer. Now, in the 2010 version they kinda brought back the original idea of him being a pervert.molester.
This is something I liked about the remake. I liked this whole backstory, it was very interesting saying that the kids are all former victims of his and he was returning to get revenge and finish what he started. But no one cares what I think.
You know... in the age where we have blantly bad and shameful Disney Remakes yet we just eat it up and still give them credit, coming back to Nightmare 2010 is like a refreshing breath of air
The remake, I agree with you on Jackie. He is an amazing actor. loved him in Watchmen. Others prefer the original only because of the change with Freddy making him more realistic. But I think micheal bay was genius to do that because you may upset some old time fans but bring in new fans to the series
The schools basement part is the weirdest and creepiest part for me, mainly because I had a dream where an angry midget woman lived in my old primary school's maths classroom, may sound funny but that dream was terrifying.
When this movie was released in theaters, I never saw it because I thought it was gonna be bad and it didn't quite feel the same without Robert Englund, who retired from the role after Freddy vs. Jason. For years, I have avoided this film until last year when I decided to watch it. Turns out, it was pretty good. Not as good as the original but I still enjoyed it.
The scary thing about this scene is that Fred actually looks and sounds like a sweet and harmless young man. Even though we don't know the full story of what he did.
Freddy was a janitor that lived at the power plant he worked in the old NOES in the reboot he's a gardener that lives in an basement of a pre-school boy do these reboots love to change the rules so much hahaha
I know it's a really late response, but that janitor in the school wearing a freddy sweater and a hat was from the movie Scream. In the originals i don't remember what he did for a living, bur this one probably was inspired by the simpsons.
Okay. What kind of parents wouldn't be suspicious of a full time gardener at a preschool who lives in the fucking basement and loves to play with the children? Red flags flying all over the fucking place. I really blame them here.
I like that they didn't specifically mention even IF it was him that did those things despite it being implied, let alone WHAT was done. So it can be taken that he was evil in the first place, or decided to become the monster they accused him of being. I like movies that leave things somewhat open to perception, and even Englund said he thought it was a cool film. 8D
I will say that this remake helped me come to the terms of my own childhood trauma of being molested in elementary school by an adult elderly woman and by four children my own age who all have been molested themselves after years of either repressing or blocking out the abuse that I went through as a child
Well, the original story goes that he didn't MOLEST children, he only cause them intense torture and pain for an unhealthy thrill, besides, hurting the children is just his way of saying that he loves them. Also he is a spawn of an abusive father...
Jermaine Martinez-Perez But in the original, he was going to be a child molester as Well, but Wes Craven dropped it because he didn't want people to think he was capitalizing on the McMartin scandal. By happenstance, the original franchise made the idea of Freddy as a pedophile subtext that's hinted at throughout the series; even in "The Dream Child" and "Freddy vs. Jason", there's moments where he's flat out labeled as a child molester in one of the newspapers covering his case ("TDC") or mentions how much he loves little girls, with the way he licks the picture of the girl whose eyes he gouged out with the glove ("FvJ").
I remember reading some book about it that also described the history. Mother got raped by many men. Little Freddy was born. He was beaten by his father. Abused so much. He left the place and basically had quite a crappy life. One day he passed out drunk in a alley. Some kids saw him and decided to screw around with him. Freddy woke up in surprise and knocked one of them out with a beer bottle. The other kids ran off. He picked up the kid and took him to the boiler room and lay him on a table I think. Then he remembered the stuff his father said like how kids are useless and should just die or whatever. He took a knife and carved 4 lines into the kids stomach. He took pleasure in doing so, especially when the blood sprayed all over him. Thats how he got the idea for the glove. His first victim with the glove was on a girl called Amy I think...she was a girl who was waiting for her mom to pick her up but her mom seemed to be running late. Because what I remember reading is that all the kids ran to their parents when school finished and she was standing alone by the sidewalk waiting for her mom. Then...she was standing no more. Don't judge if some parts seem a bit out of place and correct me if I was wrong but I last read it when I was 12 (18 now)
Well, that would make a more interesting movie. When I fist saw this, I thought Freddy was actually innocent. But still, when kids spill the beans, thats when the adults take (sometimes) violent, unnecessary action (referring to the Salem Witch Trial.)
I read that they were thinking about doing a sequel after this movie. If they did make more following this movie, I wonder if we would’ve saw Freddy’s backstory like in the original films. For example, would we have seen a time when this version of Freddy was married and had a daughter? In “Freddy’s Dead”, it was revealed that Katherine told everyone how he killed her mother and that she found all the stuff he had hidden in the basement, which made everyone realize he’s the Springwood Slasher. Since these preschoolers are the reason why Freddy got caught in what he was doing, I wonder if this means this version of Freddy got divorced which led him becoming homeless and he had to move into the preschool’s basement. It would’ve been interesting if it revealed that the reason why Freddy loves Nancy much is because she reminds him of Katherine.
@@Pennywise-hn5qw I love this remake too. It's actually my favorite in the franchise. No disrespect to Robert England. His performance is still amazing.
Yea we haven't had another Freddy movie since this one came out I know Robert Englund has gotten old and all but if he's still got it let him come back as Freddy again. They should do like a direct sequel to the first nightmare on elm street and bring Heather langenkamp back and have her and Robert be in it one last time.
@@ryanstauffer119 He's also in one of the Lake Placid movies and Lake Placid vs Anaconda which is so cool his first movie role was the Crocodile movie Eaten Alive.
I personally think it would’ve been better if they thought from the beginning that they lied and falsely accused him and then the ending revealed that they were actually telling the truth.
Nah Freddy Krueger is a irredeemable character. He always made sexual gestures to his victims in the Robert Englund films it makes sense the remake makes him a pedo.
this guy reminds me of me every time a child comes up to me they love me its a gift but I feel bad because they dont know the bad things ive done in life
The reason why people think that this is a bad remake is because the originals were just too good and the remake had big shoes to fill, it's not a bad movie, especially compared to nightmare movies after number 4 (excluding new nightmare)
Funny thing about this is this is how craven wanted freddy to be, the entire time. Yet back when he was filming Nightmare, he wasn't allowed do to the code of ethics at the time.
Dan S I like how you called him a dumbass even though you spelled wrong well.... wrong. Lol. But for real your right the old ones were fucking garbage. Only decent one was the first one and it wasn’t even scary.
Andrew Carrillo ok, that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard, this movie is painfully bad, it's only saving grace is that jackie earl haley was actually in it. The original is amazing, using practical affects, a story no one ever saw before and a badass killer that's creepy af. Now I will admit the sequels were kinda bad, well apart from the dream warriors, but this movie is terrible, and the only reason people like it is because it's "dark" and "gritty". This was just a bunch of cardboard cutouts filling in the gaps of a terrible remake.
Luke Cahill I never said this one was the best either. This one has its flaws too. Out of all the sequels the first was the best. But that’s not saying much. I should I have stated that it was my opinion. Nightmare on elm street it’s such a cool concept that it makes up for the shitty movies.
Andrew Carrillo dude thats ok, I just really love the original movies, and this remake was a let down for me, but if you like it, thats fine. Also do you think it would have been better if he was not a pedophile or (like the movie) was?
Luke Cahill honestly making him a pedo made sense but they didn’t do it right. This movie wasn’t great. But for me it’s better then most of the nightmare franchise.
I know that . I was saying that he may have been good at some point before his lust and envy towards the young consumed him , not that he necessarily was . Also note that Freddy`s a repressed memory and not a literal Dream Demon in this version as he later became in the Original Franchise . The real Fred may have been somewhat different from the memory of him even though they were both clearly evil .
Judging by the scene where Quentin finds the pictures and Nancy freaks out, I think you might be right. And Nancy's old dress has the claw marks on her torso, so that could be an indication that he was molesting her. It's sick shit.
This is a pretty good remake. And everyone seems to think otherwise but i think it was the right decision to make Freddy a molester. It made the whole plot come together. Honestly this movie was really good. The characters were interesting, they changed some of the plot but i loved this new version. I wish they made a remake for the second movie too.
He wasn't a repressed memory. Nancy's mother just said that to try and convince them that he wasn't real and that he hadn't really come back to kill them in their dreams. In the original series the Dream Demons gave Freddy his powers but in the remake it isn't explained how he got them. In that alternate ending I was talking about Nancy tells Freddy to look at what he did to her and he just laughs and says she's his little Nancy and she says she's all grown up now and sets him on fire again.
While they confronted Quentin’s father after they found out the parents killed Freddy, I wish we saw Nancy tell her mother she knows that he died since she lied here about Freddy leaving town
When I first saw this in 2010 I thought Freddy's bladed glove was some makeshift gardening tool. I tried setting this one apart from the original, with Freddy NOT being a child killer in this one. But nowadays, Freddy being a child killer is much more haunting. The remake failed in that aspect.
when I first saw Fred playing with them I thought awwww he was so nice 😄then I see the scratch marks 😕........oh.........I actually fell for that......wow I'm dumb...
I seriously don't like how they changed the backstory for the remake making him only a child molester making the glove for example redundant. Although Wes Craven originally wanted Freddy to be both a child molester and killer but the former was cut out because they didn't want to trivialize a series of child molestation going on that the time in California. Another fact too what I also don't like about this remake this Freddy lived in a basement of a preschool while the original Freddy as imagine by Wes Craven (before Freddy's Dead turned him into a Family Man), he was originally a squatting drifter hobo who lived in a space in the powerplants boiler room (of course he also worked there depending if you took "Freddy's Revenge" as canon) which is also where he built the glove and took his kids to murder them which you watch all about it in "Confessions of Fred Krueger" which probably my favorite incarnation of Freddy out all the others (although the fan film suggests he worked at the power plant following with Freddy's Revenge but it was clear that Craven originally envisioned Freddy to be a squatter).
kid grillby If I’m not mistaken those scratches are from his garden tool not the glove he didn’t even use it when he was alive he was only building it I guess in the process of killing those kids after the sick fucker molested them to keep them quite? But he failed at that as it was too late. Either way it still sucked in my opinion just made the glove pointless it should of been left in his backstory as The Springwood Slasher he used that glove originally to kill those kids before he was the dream demon we all know. Yes I get Freddy was and always will be one sick SOB even in the originals but they did a good job keeping that molestation stuff hinted. In the remake he was clearly a sick pedophile and a collector of disgusting illegal porn photos in his shoe box in his little man-cave.
One thing I liked about this movie was that it made me think that Freddy was innocent this time, that he didn't really hurt the kids and was killed for no reason. At least for a little bit. That would have been a interesting twist if it had been true.
@@MrParkerman6 I mean if people just randomly murdered you in cold blood and lit you on fire for a false accusation, you'd be pissed and thirsty for vengeance on your perpetrators. But I'm not on Freddies side, just exploring the innocent theory if it were true.
@@Attention.. It would have been interesting and a pretty surprising twist. For him to have once been a good man but becomes a monster because he was framed and killed for no reason. I get why they didn't go with that though. Freddy has to be pure evil.
Some people just shit on remakes for no fucking reason. They had to re-cast Freddy, but it seems that people hate this film because of it. Personally it’s really good.
Honestly, this doesn't look half bad. It's shot well, decent editing, and even making Freddy kind of pathetic before his death is an interesting route. I mean it's never gonna be the original, but at least it's better than the Friday the 13th, Halloween, and Texas Chainsaw remakes.
It would've been better if Freddy was just innocent and falsely accused and framed by the real culprit. It would've been awesome if they went with it instead as it would've been just as tragic as Jason's backstory.
@@katelynthewhitewerewolf6376Or it could've been someone else who was doing it to the kids, parents noticed the marks, but the kids only said it was someone at the daycare and didn't give names. And they thought it was Freddy because of how deep and long the scratch marks were.
@1993MovieMan Where did you get that? I've watched the whole movie several times, and not once do I remember the revelation about Krueger being stuck in a limbo...a "permanent micronap".
@WhisperingHoney2 The tried to "talk" to Freddie. It's revealed in the flashback scene that they chased him to a factory or something. When he had locked himself in one of the parents lit a oil-soaked rag stuffed in a gas can and threw it through the window. They killed Freddie.
I like the original story how he was a child killer and took his kids to a boiler room A child killer is a lot scarier than a child abuser. A child abuser is a coward in my book
See this is something I didn't like about the remake. I enjoyed seeing the backstory, but they changed it. Freddy used to be a sadistic child-killer. He'd kidnap innocent children & kill them, then proceed to read & laugh at all the news articles about how they can't catch the killer, he was an evil bastard, he deserved what he got & it made sense that hell would want him as part of their club. But this version implies that all he did was molest the kids. While it's still a terrible thing to do, it makes everything less impactful, it makes it seem like the parents are just overreacting when they burn him, instead of just arresting him. you almost feel sorry for him when you see him get burned alive. And he becomes the pizza-faced dream-manipulator because....he diddled some kids? There are already people out there who did & are doing that, and there's also people who have done much worse, so why does a child molester come back to life to kill teenagers?
Actually, Wes Craven's original idea was to make Freddy a child molester but he changed it because at the time of shooting there was a big case of child molestation going on in California and making such a move would mean that Craven would be accused of exploiting the victims. So the remake actually stays true to Craven's vision
DUDE, WHAT????!!!! A child molester is FAAAAAAR worse than a child killer. I don't know how you are so undermining that but rape is far unforgivable than murder in my opinion. And NO, no one felt bad about a child molester dying. You are absolutely sick in your head for feeling bad about a child molester dying!!!! He deserved it completely. Freddy is way gross here than he has ever been in the past sequels.
My sisters are the ones in the right and one of them played tag with him and she is later on killed in the movie ( the character my sister plays after she grows up)
and don't you have a dad? I saying because in this movie the little girls only have moms and the little boys only have dads, and I find that like sexist discrimination.
That’s what happens when u make a gardener live in the SCHOOL’S BASEMENT
And not pay him enough to get his own place
Fun fact: in the original nightmare on elm street film, freddy was suppose to be a molester instead of a murderer... however the film makers didn't want to do that so they went for a murderer instead.
Henry Reinoso good
It’s because there was a huge scandal occurring at the same time of the release and they didn’t want people to think they were capitalizing on that
Henry Reinoso yet they had him suck face with a kid in one of the movies. Lol
@@Wander85942
Exactly
@@AaronSaltzer
Ikr
What the fuck kind of school lets a Gardener live in the basement ?
better to live in a basement then in a shack like Groundskeeper Willy lives in
the kind of school where he's being paid with beans or sometimes maybe a chicken nugget every now and then
BoundedLawyer56 blahahahahahahahaha
our school did well not in the basement in a house on the grounds
Yeah. And he played the Freddy character in one of the treehouse of horror episodes.
This film is so underrated. The cast is great, the characters are likeable, the plot is solid. It's not just a typical shot for shot carbon copy of the original, it is in it's own way original. No, nobody can outperform Robert Englund as Freddy, that's a fact. HOWEVER, take nothing away from Jackie Earle Hayley's performance. He was very dark and sadistic. Jackie played a great Freddy. There is no real reason to hate this film but there are many reasons to like it.
*EDIT* I will say, they missed a GOLDEN opportunity in making Freddy innocent.
Yes
PsYcHo_OuTrAgE Jackie Earle Haley did great as Freddy Krueger!
Robert Englund would be best described as being funny as I saw nothing funny about JEH's portrayal. It was downright sinister and sadistic. Not taking away from Englund as he greatly combined fear with dark humor but I just prefer JEH's performance more
But yeah, totally agree otherwise
This is the one good review I've ever seen about this film
@@account-pb2df Go to IMDB. The majority are negative though so just choose all the positive ones and you'll see that there are exceptions
This all could’ve easily been avoided
If school didn’t exist
Bradigans D 😂😂😂 LMAO
You said it, brother!
Or at least this very one.
Bradigans D yep
Yes
I think it would've been better if Freddy was falsely accused.
Fuckin' A.
I could also have see something like what went down at the McMartin Pre-school happening to him. Kids being coerced to come up with wild stories about how he "hurt" them. Then the parents kill him... That could've been alright...
yeah that would have been good theirs a few fanfictions going round like that saying the kids played rough with each other and blamed Freddy so they wouldnt get into trouble
You're god damn right. Then the idea of getting revenge on the parents would make much more sense.
Max Frankow he played on watchmen
Max Frankow yea
Okay I'm not gonna lie but the worst thing she said to her daughter, Nancy, was that she was Freddy's favorite.
Yeah, she didn't need to know that lol.
Bruh, I didn't even notice that. I wonder if that was intentional?
Jonathon Davis OH. I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out.
Hi
That was so creepy
this movie is not that bad I've seen worst but this movie is decent
I thought this movie was good but I think the original one is best
I thought it was ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
new slender man9 me to
Imo... It’s so frickin boring.
@@chaigneau6981 agree I love the original series more than remake.
Jackie's performance was cute when he was with the kids, I honestly thought it was genuine feeling of happiness
@Edward89 sad. But true
Fun fact: This Freddy's backstory is closer to the one Wes Craven originally intended for original Freddy to be a pedophile rather than a child murderer. Craven had to change him into a child murderer, however, to avoid being accused of exploiting a spate of highly publicized child molestation cases that occurred in California around the time of the original film's production.
Doc Ock
And I don't blame him for changing it either.
@@katelynthewhitewerewolf6376Si, ma alla fine lo è anche nell'originale
I'm glad they didn't make him a pedophile in the original.
@VampireA1056 He still was one but it wasn't made the focal point of the original series
@@EdwardC.WilliamsII It was never really comfirmed that he was but there were some implications, I just prefer him as a Child murderer than a child molester.
i gotta say. this was a pretty good remake.
yeah you're right
***** i heard once that in the original wes craven wanted to make freddy a child molester but there was a big case going on at the time with a guy molesting kids and he didn't want people to think he was trying to profit off the kids.
+Tommy gun scared me more the original ever did!
true
+battousaiblade IKR
They never mentioned in old films but they for sure hinted at it ton of times that freddy like kids You keep to re watch old films if you think Freddy didn't The new film just rams it down your throat
Yep! The bath scene from the original ANOES movie hinted that Krueger had something else planned for Nancy.. As well as some other scenes, but to me, the bath scene was the most noticeable.
Vicky Yoshikawa he rammed it down the childrens throats
It was in Freddy vs. Jason
I also remembered the parts where Freddy licks Nancy’s mouth when she answered the phone and when approached Nancy saying “ come to Freddy” and wiggles his tongue out at her.
Yeah, it's definitely there in the original 84 film in a subtle way. For example: When he's flicking his tongue while chasing Heather Langenkamp in the boiler room during the school dream. Or, when Marge says "he was a filthy child murderer.")
Okay, I just watched it and it really wasn't a bad movie - but I can see why fans of the original don't like it.
Hugh Jass maybe cuz the actor didn't looked like Freddy
Hugh Jass what's the original called😭😭
Hugh Jass It’s not horrible. We just like the original better. It’s actually a good movie
Red sheep 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️Boy
don't you wanna be his friend til the end?
I never cared for the Pedo Aspect, I think the Child Killer aspect is more horrifying as ya think you can trust someone who's the springwood slasher and then you NEVER SEE your kids again. A Pedophile is disgusting & horrible for a kid cuz they had to live through that but you still have them in your life to care for
To me Freddy was better as the Springwood Slasher
...Yes and no. Mostly agree, I'd just phrase it differently - I don't think the Child Killer aspect is 'more horrifying', it's more *suitable* for a *horror film* imo. Pedophile rapists are scary in their own way, but mostly just plain disgusting! They don't build any fascination for me, and I think that aspect - the latent fascination - is among the most important for any Slasher.
Original Freddy was a Pied Piper with horrific charm, this is just. Preschool Pedo Jones. Maybe slightly scary but overall just pisses me off more than he could ever entertain me.
@@themozARTgroupie yea
Interesting enough, there may have been hints of this in the original Nightmare on Elm Street. Nancy's mother describes Freddy as being a filthy child murderer . So maybe he didn't just kill the kids.
The original Freddy was both a pedophile AND murderer.
@Edward89 Wasn't there a scandal going on that involved a daycare? I'm trying to remember the documentary.
This really wasn't a bad remake. Jackie Earle Haley did a really good job as Freddy to be honest.
Cameron Ratliff i agree
But never beats Robert Englund
I agree, Robert England is as legendary as heath ledger, but Jackie Earle and Joaquin Phoenix were still pretty good
@@normanmccultureboy6492 He's not trying to.
What a completely unnecessary comment.
@@TheShape_1031 really? Like have you seen that he acts more like he’s in the shadows of Robert Englund rather than being his own take on Freddy
Whats intersting about this movie is that it portaits vividly the child abuse-suprese memory issue.If you see it from another point some of them were on meds and depressive because of the childhood trauma and either suicide or kill another(you could easily assumed that Dean suicide and Jesse killed Kris out of jealousy,then kill him self.)And the hall fighting journy of Nancy is to remember and get over her abuse in order to move on with a new boyfriend.
In the original, Freddy was put on trial, but because of an unsigned warrant and drunk judge he was released, resulting in the adults banding together to torch him in his old boiler room. In the remake, they don't go to the police because they didn't want to have to bring their kids into a courtroom so they could testify on what he did to them. They wanted to spare their kids of telling everyone all he did knowing how painful it was for them to have to talk about it with so many strangers. They all could've been tried for murder without hard evidence aside from the cuts and such on their bodies.
I mean they’re wouldn’t be much evidence. The stretches could be excused as scratches they got while playing
@@thedude8457
Yeah no one would believe that and keeping it from them wasn't good.
Gotta say this was a pretty good remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street certainly better then the remakes of Friday the 13th and Halloween.
do you think he sounds like Marty MC fly
RaggelsGAMER there's a remake for Friday the 13th?
LittleXXcookie yes even for Halloween
DJNarwhal213 everybody knows about Rob zombie halloween
littleXXcookie yeah. It came out in like 2009
You haven't seen most child molesters then. They're usually friends of the families, always so loving to the kids. Such "nice" people can hide the darkest things.
Lemon Wedge i have a lemon in my closet
Well said. And speaking of preschools with dark secrets, this Badham Preschool scene makes us think of the other movies, UNSPEAKABLE ACTS, and DO YOU KNOW THE MUFFIN NAN?.
Fun fact:
The very base definition of "Pedophile" is "LOVES KIDS" of course they are going to seem friendly and loving at first
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The Muffin Man nice Shrek reference I like that movie.
@EdTube1989
If Fluttershy heard that in MLP she probably cry.
If I see one more goddamn ad for Unfriended, I'm going to flip. the fuck. out.
Seifer Creed I have add block plus thank god I don't have to see that shit
It's annoying as hell!
Seifer Creed I did have add block for a while but I needed to take it off to run something....any ad in general on TH-cam I automatically curse like a sailor and mute or skip it lol.
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I'm 2 years late but Unfriended sucks anyways
I actually like the remake, a lot of people don't like how he's just a child molester and *then* starts to kill. Even though in the original it was subtly hinted at and referenced to in Freddy Vs Jason so i don't understand why everyone's against the idea, it makes him even more sinister in someways. I also kinda like the "did he really?" twist they throw near the end even though its pretty obvious once they find the preschool. I really did enjoy this movie and i suggest watching the alternative ending for those who haven't seen it, its in true Nightmare fashion and even shows Nancy's character grow and have a proper end.
Also they got Grewishka to play Freddie Krueger. That's a win in my book.
@@tomnorton4277 yup yup 🤚😔
Honestly Freddy may have been one in the original. I mean why else would he kill those children? Not to mention when Marge is telling Nancy about Freddy she says “he was a FILTHY child murderer”….. “Filthy” is an interesting yet weird choice of words like why not say “evil” or “awful” or something that didn’t mean dirty or disgusting? I never ruled that out and I never thought Freddy was likable. I mean I praise Robert for his acting in the original but I never liked the character of Freddy.
@@uravirginwhocantdrive1400 yeah, nancy's mom did kinda imply what he was doing wasn't just murder. freaky
@@mega6836
The Remake using Wes Craven's original idea is genius.
freddy should have been innocent, it would have been better than the double twist they had at the end. god this movie had potential and it blew
Timingchameleon Freddy was so fucking creepy in it, it was better that he was not innocent.
Timingchameleon But then he wouldn't be Freddy. Freddy as a character is someone who KNOWS how malicious and vile he is and makes no apologies for it, opting instead to be worse to maintain the fear he causes in his victims. By making him a victim of circumstance, it makes him nothing more than another run of the mill slasher who was wronged in his past life.
Timingchameleon i think the double twist really makes it
Yeah if he was innocent then I would feel bad for him and want him to kill people for what they done to him
Making him innocent would be fucking stupid. He would have no reason to turn into a murderer then.
My uncle Jeff tried out to be the camera man in this scene and got the part. They brought him on set but ended up using someone else. It was okay though he got to visit the set and watch them film this scene. He had lots of fun!🎃
Nice did he meet the actors
To be honest, this was a good reboot. It got into freddy’s backstory a little bit and showed why everyone was pissed at him. Really good movie
Scary how friendly he is after seeing him so evil in their dreams.
So he molested the whole class? Now I know doing that to a child causes Serious Trauma especially to the mind but shouldn't at least one of these kids go DOES ANYONE REMEMBER BEING TOUCHED BY FREDDY?!?!
All the kids had therapy and they can make you forget horrible memory's and replace them with good memories. So they wouldn't remember being in the same preschool with the other children and Freddy.
brandilyn332 They blocked out the memories of being molested by Freddy I think.
+Jordan Downs This reminds me of some issues Freddy's Dead had.
The original comment is correct. There is a hole in the story.
so all of them either blocked it out or went on therapy? i don't know man... sounds like a big coincidence.
Wes Craven's original idea for Freddy was a child molester, but he had to change it to child murderer to avoid contreversey. This movie brings the original idea to life, and it makes Freddy become more disturbing than ever before.
He didn't have to, he chose to, yu dumbass.
At first I actually felt bad for Freddy. As the movie built up to the point where he looked innocent I genuinely felt upset for Freddy, but then he went and fucked all that up in the end.
That would’ve been more interesting had they shown he was framed
I really appreciate the remake because it ties together alot of backstory into one film
1:38 She is in American Horror Story
Yeah, Connie Britton. Great actress.
And now she is in the 911 serie.
Mhm.
RJ Lopez man I love that show
Yep! I noticed her after watching it again
In the original script for the first nightmare movie, Freddy was supposed to be a child molester. However at the time there was a bunch of big child molestation cases popping up in California, so they decided to make him a child "murderer" so that noone would accuse them of taking advantage of the real-life court cases. So instead, they changed him to a child murderer. Now, in the 2010 version they kinda brought back the original idea of him being a pervert.molester.
This is something I liked about the remake. I liked this whole backstory, it was very interesting saying that the kids are all former victims of his and he was returning to get revenge and finish what he started.
But no one cares what I think.
"He cant harm you anymore"
*later in the movie he makes a guy drown in his own bed and cuts someone in **-half-*
This seriously made me laugh 😂
You know... in the age where we have blantly bad and shameful Disney Remakes yet we just eat it up and still give them credit, coming back to Nightmare 2010 is like a refreshing breath of air
yeah true. they kinda hint that he did something extremely disturbing to Nancy with those pictures Quentin found but nothing is shown :/
The remake, I agree with you on Jackie. He is an amazing actor. loved him in Watchmen.
Others prefer the original only because of the change with Freddy making him more realistic.
But I think micheal bay was genius to do that because you may upset some old time fans but bring in new fans to the series
Freddy looks innocent when he's human but he's actually more of a monster in this movie
The schools basement part is the weirdest and creepiest part for me, mainly because I had a dream where an angry midget woman lived in my old primary school's maths classroom, may sound funny but that dream was terrifying.
I went to pre school, I forgot everything, I feel like my parents hiding something from me, I hope this shit didn't go down with me.
I'm so sorry.😔
When this movie was released in theaters, I never saw it because I thought it was gonna be bad and it didn't quite feel the same without Robert Englund, who retired from the role after Freddy vs. Jason. For years, I have avoided this film until last year when I decided to watch it. Turns out, it was pretty good. Not as good as the original but I still enjoyed it.
I prefer the original but Jackie is easily the best part of the film even though Robert will always be Freddy imo
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I like them and Jackie Earle Haley deserves more roles as Remake Freddy Krueger.
I think it's pretty scary to be learning about a killer and then to figure out you were around that same person when you were little.
The scary thing about this scene is that Fred actually looks and sounds like a sweet and harmless young man. Even though we don't know the full story of what he did.
^rhis . The fact that it’s so realistic makes it scary.
Freddy was a janitor that lived at the power plant he worked in the old NOES in the reboot he's a gardener that lives in an basement of a pre-school boy do these reboots love to change the rules so much hahaha
Seifer Creed
Wait....if thats true then why do I remember a janitor wearing Freddy's outfit? I think im mixed up with some stuff
Jeronimo McArthur Yeah probably.
Maybe I need to get caught up Don't you think?
Donald Newton Ah thanks dude
I know it's a really late response, but that janitor in the school wearing a freddy sweater and a hat was from the movie Scream. In the originals i don't remember what he did for a living, bur this one probably was inspired by the simpsons.
Okay.
What kind of parents wouldn't be suspicious of a full time gardener at a preschool who lives in the fucking basement and loves to play with the children?
Red flags flying all over the fucking place. I really blame them here.
Even Michael Jackson didn’t live in a basement
Only cuz it's a movie
But ofc huge red flag
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I like that they didn't specifically mention even IF it was him that did those things despite it being implied, let alone WHAT was done. So it can be taken that he was evil in the first place, or decided to become the monster they accused him of being. I like movies that leave things somewhat open to perception, and even Englund said he thought it was a cool film. 8D
I will say that this remake helped me come to the terms of my own childhood trauma of being molested in elementary school by an adult elderly woman and by four children my own age who all have been molested themselves after years of either repressing or blocking out the abuse that I went through as a child
Well, the original story goes that he didn't MOLEST children, he only cause them intense torture and pain for an unhealthy thrill, besides, hurting the children is just his way of saying that he loves them.
Also he is a spawn of an abusive father...
He was actually a child murderer as well before he died
Jermaine Martinez-Perez But in the original, he was going to be a child molester as Well, but Wes Craven dropped it because he didn't want people to think he was capitalizing on the McMartin scandal. By happenstance, the original franchise made the idea of Freddy as a pedophile subtext that's hinted at throughout the series; even in "The Dream Child" and "Freddy vs. Jason", there's moments where he's flat out labeled as a child molester in one of the newspapers covering his case ("TDC") or mentions how much he loves little girls, with the way he licks the picture of the girl whose eyes he gouged out with the glove ("FvJ").
I remember reading some book about it that also described the history. Mother got raped by many men. Little Freddy was born. He was beaten by his father. Abused so much. He left the place and basically had quite a crappy life. One day he passed out drunk in a alley. Some kids saw him and decided to screw around with him. Freddy woke up in surprise and knocked one of them out with a beer bottle. The other kids ran off. He picked up the kid and took him to the boiler room and lay him on a table I think. Then he remembered the stuff his father said like how kids are useless and should just die or whatever. He took a knife and carved 4 lines into the kids stomach. He took pleasure in doing so, especially when the blood sprayed all over him. Thats how he got the idea for the glove. His first victim with the glove was on a girl called Amy I think...she was a girl who was waiting for her mom to pick her up but her mom seemed to be running late. Because what I remember reading is that all the kids ran to their parents when school finished and she was standing alone by the sidewalk waiting for her mom. Then...she was standing no more.
Don't judge if some parts seem a bit out of place and correct me if I was wrong but I last read it when I was 12 (18 now)
Grimm dmDaniel but we can all admit, even if freddy was a pedophile in the original movies, he was still badass and funny
Bro Jacky did such a good job showing him as really nice, and then really fucked up
I can’t believe that the kids wouldn’t scream. He would have been like “you want to come to my secret cave and i would have been like “ Bitch no”
Well, that would make a more interesting movie.
When I fist saw this, I thought Freddy was actually innocent. But still, when kids spill the beans, thats when the adults take (sometimes) violent, unnecessary action (referring to the Salem Witch Trial.)
This scene is totally well done. Music fits.
My biggest problem with this movie is that it would’ve been really cool if Freddy actually was innocent.
That's where psychologists got the bullshit about repressed memories.
I find it hard to believe that none of them have memories of what happened.
It’s a bit too unrealistic
I read that they were thinking about doing a sequel after this movie. If they did make more following this movie, I wonder if we would’ve saw Freddy’s backstory like in the original films. For example, would we have seen a time when this version of Freddy was married and had a daughter? In “Freddy’s Dead”, it was revealed that Katherine told everyone how he killed her mother and that she found all the stuff he had hidden in the basement, which made everyone realize he’s the Springwood Slasher. Since these preschoolers are the reason why Freddy got caught in what he was doing, I wonder if this means this version of Freddy got divorced which led him becoming homeless and he had to move into the preschool’s basement. It would’ve been interesting if it revealed that the reason why Freddy loves Nancy much is because she reminds him of Katherine.
Sadly there were to much haters who posted there unprofessional thoughts...I loved this Remake it has had all what the original dont had...
@@Pennywise-hn5qw I love this remake too. It's actually my favorite in the franchise. No disrespect to Robert England. His performance is still amazing.
Yea we haven't had another Freddy movie since this one came out I know Robert Englund has gotten old and all but if he's still got it let him come back as Freddy again. They should do like a direct sequel to the first nightmare on elm street and bring Heather langenkamp back and have her and Robert be in it one last time.
@@aaronnantz2289 The last time Robert played Freddy was on an episode of The Goldbergs.
@@ryanstauffer119
He's also in one of the Lake Placid movies and Lake Placid vs Anaconda which is so cool his first movie role was the Crocodile movie Eaten Alive.
The real freddy krueger is behind the camera
You mean Robert Englund, right?
nah englund wasn't in this movie.
No - He was the guy taking the class picture of the kids
@@Vampirelover92098 oh my god I didn't notice it
@@Vampirelover92098 not till now
I personally think it would’ve been better if they thought from the beginning that they lied and falsely accused him and then the ending revealed that they were actually telling the truth.
Nah Freddy Krueger is a irredeemable character. He always made sexual gestures to his victims in the Robert Englund films it makes sense the remake makes him a pedo.
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this guy reminds me of me every time a child comes up to me they love me its a gift but I feel bad because they dont know the bad things ive done in life
The reason why people think that this is a bad remake is because the originals were just too good and the remake had big shoes to fill, it's not a bad movie, especially compared to nightmare movies after number 4 (excluding new nightmare)
Funny thing about this is this is how craven wanted freddy to be, the entire time. Yet back when he was filming Nightmare, he wasn't allowed do to the code of ethics at the time.
The Original Nightmare was a painting by Van Gogh. The Remake was a fingerpainting of a two Year old kid.
Dan S I like how you called him a dumbass even though you spelled wrong well.... wrong. Lol. But for real your right the old ones were fucking garbage. Only decent one was the first one and it wasn’t even scary.
Andrew Carrillo ok, that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard, this movie is painfully bad, it's only saving grace is that jackie earl haley was actually in it. The original is amazing, using practical affects, a story no one ever saw before and a badass killer that's creepy af. Now I will admit the sequels were kinda bad, well apart from the dream warriors, but this movie is terrible, and the only reason people like it is because it's "dark" and "gritty". This was just a bunch of cardboard cutouts filling in the gaps of a terrible remake.
Luke Cahill I never said this one was the best either. This one has its flaws too. Out of all the sequels the first was the best. But that’s not saying much. I should I have stated that it was my opinion. Nightmare on elm street it’s such a cool concept that it makes up for the shitty movies.
Andrew Carrillo dude thats ok, I just really love the original movies, and this remake was a let down for me, but if you like it, thats fine. Also do you think it would have been better if he was not a pedophile or (like the movie) was?
Luke Cahill honestly making him a pedo made sense but they didn’t do it right. This movie wasn’t great. But for me it’s better then most of the nightmare franchise.
I know that . I was saying that he may have been good at some point before his lust and envy towards the young consumed him , not that he necessarily was . Also note that Freddy`s a repressed memory and not a literal Dream Demon in this version as he later became in the Original Franchise . The real Fred may have been somewhat different from the memory of him even though they were both clearly evil .
Judging by the scene where Quentin finds the pictures and Nancy freaks out, I think you might be right. And Nancy's old dress has the claw marks on her torso, so that could be an indication that he was molesting her. It's sick shit.
This is a pretty good remake. And everyone seems to think otherwise but i think it was the right decision to make Freddy a molester. It made the whole plot come together. Honestly this movie was really good. The characters were interesting, they changed some of the plot but i loved this new version. I wish they made a remake for the second movie too.
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And the Child Molester thing was actually Wes Craven's original idea for Fred Krueger.
The map in Dead by Daylight is super close to an exact replica
don´t even try to drop a fucking safe palet in the pre-school on my head.
@@imperial123 i did
He wasn't a repressed memory. Nancy's mother just said that to try and convince them that he wasn't real and that he hadn't really come back to kill them in their dreams. In the original series the Dream Demons gave Freddy his powers but in the remake it isn't explained how he got them. In that alternate ending I was talking about Nancy tells Freddy to look at what he did to her and he just laughs and says she's his little Nancy and she says she's all grown up now and sets him on fire again.
But hes so cuuuteee.. Aaahh Fred whyyy.. 😂😂😂 oms imagine a universe where he didnt hurt the children and they DID actually lie.. :( that would be sad
While they confronted Quentin’s father after they found out the parents killed Freddy, I wish we saw Nancy tell her mother she knows that he died since she lied here about Freddy leaving town
When I first saw this in 2010 I thought Freddy's bladed glove was some makeshift gardening tool. I tried setting this one apart from the original, with Freddy NOT being a child killer in this one. But nowadays, Freddy being a child killer is much more haunting. The remake failed in that aspect.
This movie is underated
*I thought Freddy was FALSELY accused of being a [u know what] …..and that’s why he is seeking revenge on the teenagers whose parents accused him.*
0:10 looping fence spotted :D
Haha nice dbd reference
i really really really wish they made a sequel too tha a nightmare on elm street 2010 remake
It is so sad that he was this guy all the kids loved and he loved them kindly back and then he turned into, well, you know
when I first saw Fred playing with them I thought awwww he was so nice 😄then I see the scratch marks 😕........oh.........I actually fell for that......wow I'm dumb...
This is how the original Freddy was going to be, but because there was a scandal similar to this, they turned him into a serial killer.
I seriously don't like how they changed the backstory for the remake making him only a child molester making the glove for example redundant.
Although Wes Craven originally wanted Freddy to be both a child molester and killer but the former was cut out because they didn't want to trivialize a series of child molestation going on that the time in California.
Another fact too what I also don't like about this remake this Freddy lived in a basement of a preschool while the original Freddy as imagine by Wes Craven (before Freddy's Dead turned him into a Family Man), he was originally a squatting drifter hobo who lived in a space in the powerplants boiler room (of course he also worked there depending if you took "Freddy's Revenge" as canon) which is also where he built the glove and took his kids to murder them which you watch all about it in "Confessions of Fred Krueger" which probably my favorite incarnation of Freddy out all the others (although the fan film suggests he worked at the power plant following with Freddy's Revenge but it was clear that Craven originally envisioned Freddy to be a squatter).
zonilo1 actually the scratches are from the glove
kid grillby If I’m not mistaken those scratches are from his garden tool not the glove he didn’t even use it when he was alive he was only building it I guess in the process of killing those kids after the sick fucker molested them to keep them quite? But he failed at that as it was too late. Either way it still sucked in my opinion just made the glove pointless it should of been left in his backstory as The Springwood Slasher he used that glove originally to kill those kids before he was the dream demon we all know. Yes I get Freddy was and always will be one sick SOB even in the originals but they did a good job keeping that molestation stuff hinted. In the remake he was clearly a sick pedophile and a collector of disgusting illegal porn photos in his shoe box in his little man-cave.
Everyone has great points, but I personally have to point out the kid that played young Quentin
He looks so spot on to me that it is ridiculous
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One thing I liked about this movie was that it made me think that Freddy was innocent this time, that he didn't really hurt the kids and was killed for no reason. At least for a little bit. That would have been a interesting twist if it had been true.
That would be fucking stupid if he was innocent, cuz he would have no reason to turn into a murderer.
@@MrParkerman6 I thought it would make an interesting plot twist. Fred Boi being framrd
@@MrParkerman6 I mean if people just randomly murdered you in cold blood and lit you on fire for a false accusation, you'd be pissed and thirsty for vengeance on your perpetrators. But I'm not on Freddies side, just exploring the innocent theory if it were true.
@@Attention.. It would have been interesting and a pretty surprising twist. For him to have once been a good man but becomes a monster because he was framed and killed for no reason. I get why they didn't go with that though. Freddy has to be pure evil.
Was the remake base off of the original 1984 concept for the first film?!
Yes
they had us in the first half not gonna lie
im saying that he seemed OK in the beginning
The secret cave, gave me the chills!!
Same here! Not only that, it also made my mind boggle!!
I still love this movie
Some people just shit on remakes for no fucking reason. They had to re-cast Freddy, but it seems that people hate this film because of it. Personally it’s really good.
Honestly, this doesn't look half bad. It's shot well, decent editing, and even making Freddy kind of pathetic before his death is an interesting route. I mean it's never gonna be the original, but at least it's better than the Friday the 13th, Halloween, and Texas Chainsaw remakes.
Freddy Krueger, The Assassin Of Dreams, The Springwood Slasher, The Child Toucher Of Badham
1:12 Are you feeling it now Mr.Krabs
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Mr Krabs: I'M FEELING LIKE A TOTAL BARNACLE HEAD
It would've been better if Freddy was just innocent and falsely accused and framed by the real culprit.
It would've been awesome if they went with it instead as it would've been just as tragic as Jason's backstory.
If he was innocent it wouldn’t explain the scratches they got on their backs
@@thedude8457 he could of been framed. if they went with this idea i mean
@@thedude8457
Playing with them not knowing what they were doing
@@katelynthewhitewerewolf6376Or it could've been someone else who was doing it to the kids, parents noticed the marks, but the kids only said it was someone at the daycare and didn't give names. And they thought it was Freddy because of how deep and long the scratch marks were.
I will admit the acting is pretty good
@1993MovieMan
Where did you get that? I've watched the whole movie several times, and not once do I remember the revelation about Krueger being stuck in a limbo...a "permanent micronap".
His real name was Frederick Charles Krueger before he became Freddy Krueger
@WhisperingHoney2 The tried to "talk" to Freddie. It's revealed in the flashback scene that they chased him to a factory or something. When he had locked himself in one of the parents lit a oil-soaked rag stuffed in a gas can and threw it through the window. They killed Freddie.
I just want to point out Steve Jablonski is doing the score
I like the original story how he was a child killer and took his kids to a boiler room
A child killer is a lot scarier than a child abuser. A child abuser is a coward in my book
Shouldn't the middle-aged gardener living in the basement of a pre-school thing have been a red flag for these parents?
Yep
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@WhisperingHoney2 They started to think that Freddy was innocent until Quentin found pictures of Nancy as a kid in Freddy's bedroom at the pre school.
See this is something I didn't like about the remake. I enjoyed seeing the backstory, but they changed it.
Freddy used to be a sadistic child-killer. He'd kidnap innocent children & kill them, then proceed to read & laugh at all the news articles about how they can't catch the killer, he was an evil bastard, he deserved what he got & it made sense that hell would want him as part of their club.
But this version implies that all he did was molest the kids. While it's still a terrible thing to do, it makes everything less impactful, it makes it seem like the parents are just overreacting when they burn him, instead of just arresting him. you almost feel sorry for him when you see him get burned alive. And he becomes the pizza-faced dream-manipulator because....he diddled some kids? There are already people out there who did & are doing that, and there's also people who have done much worse, so why does a child molester come back to life to kill teenagers?
Actually, Wes Craven's original idea was to make Freddy a child molester but he changed it because at the time of shooting there was a big case of child molestation going on in California and making such a move would mean that Craven would be accused of exploiting the victims. So the remake actually stays true to Craven's vision
DUDE, WHAT????!!!! A child molester is FAAAAAAR worse than a child killer. I don't know how you are so undermining that but rape is far unforgivable than murder in my opinion. And NO, no one felt bad about a child molester dying. You are absolutely sick in your head for feeling bad about a child molester dying!!!! He deserved it completely. Freddy is way gross here than he has ever been in the past sequels.
Jackie is an amazing actor. He can be so creepy. He's one of the best things about this movie.
My sisters are the ones in the right and one of them played tag with him and she is later on killed in the movie ( the character my sister plays after she grows up)
and don't you have a dad? I saying because in this movie the little girls only have moms and the little boys only have dads, and I find that like sexist discrimination.
@@shadrachquistgaard5382 the fuck you talking about?
The scratch on kris's back could been from one of the other kids playing with the gardening tool and accidentally hurting her