As a remake of *A Nightmare on Elm Street*, it's absolutely terrible. Freddy looks like a burned reptile and his voice never fits with the lips, it's all pre-recorded modified voice stuff. The kills are so unimaginative and bland, bad dream sequences and terrible effects. It doesn't even have practical effects for most of them, which is what made the charm of the whole franchise up to this point. They recreated so many moments from the original and made them a lot less interesting. So much embarassing crappy dialogue in the third act. I do like the characters and actors playing Nancy and Quentin here though.

As a stand-alone horror movie it's very bland but not terrible. There's some aspects I enjoyed, like the backstory they gave Freddy. There was a lot of stuff that made absolutely no sense in that flashback (like why would he intentionally leave marks on the person, you just gave yourself up you idiot). It's still a dumb backstory but it makes the villain hateable and that's something the original didn't have. It's a movie that takes itself seriously though, devoid of any fun like the original was so it makes sense the villain is downright evil. Feflecting that, this movie would maybe work if it was actually scary... it's not. It's just a poor version that takes away the fun, laughs and camp from the original but has nothing else to compensate.

Perfect final few seconds?!