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A Nightmare on Elm Street

Never Sleep Again.

A ''re-imagining'' of the cult horror classic. Set on Elm Street, a group of teenagers are all having the same nightmare about an odd man with blades in his glove. This is Freddy, and if he kills you in your dreams, then you die in real life too. Once the kids start dying, the rest try to figure out how to beat Freddy, and attempt to stay awake until they do, lest they meet him in their dreams ...

95 minutes, No persons under 16 (Language, Violence)
Detective/Mystery, Horror, Thriller.

Credits

Cast

Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker, Kellan Lutz, Clancy Brown, Connie Britton

Director

Samuel Bayer

Screenplay

Wesley Strick, Eric Heisserer, based on characters by Wes Craven

Music

Steve Jablonsky

Cinematography

Jeff Cutter

Editing

Glen Scantelbury

Sound formats

Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS

Soundtrack

Available

Made in

2010

Produced by

New Line Cinema, Platinum Dunes

SA Distributor

Nu Metro

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Horror
Language	Strong, infrequent, in context
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Strong psychological horror violence, bloody, graphic, gory, gruesome slayings
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	Mild, in context, infrequent
Drug abuse	Brief abuse of drugs and prescription drugs
Comments	None
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Ratings

Scale (Max)

International Media

Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert he movie consists of a series of teenagers who are introduced, haunted by nightmares and then slashed to death by Freddy. So what? Are we supposed to be scared?

eye Weekly (Canada)Chris Bilton As far as Elm Street is concerned, a Freddy-vs.-Jason sequel is probably the best we can hope for.

Rolling Stone (US)Peter Travers Do we really need a remake of Wes Craven's 1984 horror classic that spawned six sequels?

ScreenIt (USA)C. Fuchs Fails to do much of anything new or interesting with the original material and thus nearly put yours truly to sleep.

Metacritic.com25 critics

RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer Visually faithful but lacking the depth and subversive twists that made the original so memorable, the Nightmare on Elm Street remake lives up to its title in the worst possible way.

Internet (IMDB)11409 Netizens

Average .. 33%

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