A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

Typically over-slick Platinum Dunes horror remake. Spends a lot of time on the kids unravelling Freddy's backstory and a weird 'maybe Freddy was falsely accused' fake-out, and not enough time on, y'know, the nightmares. The nightmares lack the slippery, disjointed, visceral feel of the original, and they don't even make use of modern technology to do anything inventive, with the exception of that one shot where the floor turns to goop (in fact, the modern effects are mostly unconvincing). Freddy himself doesn't have the gothic sadism of the original, he's just a rather mundane shouty man.

Perhaps this works a lot better for people who haven't seen the original, and perhaps modern viewers might not be able to get past the low-budget 80s-ness of Craven's movie, but for me this is just a less good version and rather pointless.
Rating: Bad