Original VS Remake: Nightmare On Elm Street
By Jose
Now instead of breaking down movie by movie, piece by piece. What I want to do is just compare and contrast these two movies, specifically the origin and Freddy character himself.
Toward the end of the remake the character Quentin (Kyle Gallner) learns what really happened and why Freddy is out killing all these kids. So here is where they change a bit of the origin story and background of Freddy turning him from a child killer into a child predator/molester. Now that kind of made me a bit upset. Keeping him as a child killer would have made him seem like a monster that just wants to kill. Turn it into a pedophile makes it seem very uncomfortable and turns the Freddy character from a monster to a pervert. Wanting revenge on the kids who told on him rather then just wanting to kill and terrorize. This is something that should have been left alone and not changed the way they did for the new one.
So in addition to the origin change, some other things that were changed was the fun factor. Most horror movies, for the most part, have a few bits of comedy in order to take the audience away from all the gore and scares and also to give a slight break. But by omitting humor all together all your doing is bombarding the viewers kill after kill and scare after scare. Causing a fatigue on the audience. That is why I see the Friday The 13th remake as a successful movie. It gave us those humor spots between all the killing and scares. Robert Englund provided that sick humor that worked so well in the originals that was lost here in the 2010 version. But that is not saying that Jackie Earle Haley didn’t give a good performance because he did. A great scaring performance. But too serious. Jason, Michael Myers, Leather Face all don’t talk. Freddy was the only one and he used his voice as much as his claws. But here he essentially became one of them. Which is a shame.
Another thing that upset me was the lack of transitions or let me say it like this. When the dream or nightmare scenes came you didn’t know it was a dream until Freddy popped out or something really weird or out of place happened. It took you off guard and added a dimension to the movie because you didn’t know if the character was in a nightmare or not. In the 2010 version it was obvious. They fell asleep and here comes Freddy. No suspense, no misdirection. It was just “oh look he fell asleep” or “oh no don’t fall asleep”. It could have been really great to see that carried over to the new movie especially with the technology we have today. Imagine all the fun they could have had with it.
Look for the Friday the 13th Original VS Remake later this week at The Movie Spot
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