A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) by The Horror Stans Podcast (2024)

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What went wrong with A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010? ›

If there's anything to be taken from A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010, it's that loud jumpscares and expensive CGI can't save something that doesn't have the juice needed to pull off an Elm Street film. I'm not saying that every film in the original series is good, there's quite a few bad ones!

Parents need to know that A Nightmare on Elm Street is a slasher flick with a lot of over-the-top gore and violence, with the qualifier that it's often "nightmare," surreal violence. Nightmare visions include a face being torn off to reveal a staring skull, a geyser of blood pouring out of a victim's bed and…

Dr. Tobia had his students watch A Nightmare on Elm Street and specifically try to diagnose what sleeping disorder Nancy had. Their conclusion was narcolepsy.

Freddy's physical appearance was changed with the use of computer-generated imagery to be closer to that of a burn victim. Because of the positive experiences Platinum Dunes' producers had in the area, A Nightmare on Elm Street was filmed primarily in Illinois.

The imagery in the movie makes it seem unmistakably gay — but the filmmakers have all along denied that that was their intention." During his interview segment for the 2010 documentary film Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, David Chaskin admitted that the gay themes were intentional, something he had denied ...

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - A 21-year-old Depp landed his first film role in Wes Craven's cult slasher film. As Glen, a teenager whose dreams are haunted by Freddy Krueger, Depp got Hollywood's attention for his bad boy demeanor and brooding good looks. (Photo: New Line Cinema)

The film was inspired by several newspaper articles printed in the Los Angeles Times in the 1970s about Hmong refugees, who, after fleeing to the United States because of war and genocide in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, suffered disturbing nightmares and refused to sleep. Some of the men died in their sleep soon after.

In A Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy is introduced as a serial child killer, Fred Krueger, from the fictitious town of Springwood, Ohio, who kills his victims with a bladed leather glove he crafted in a boiler room where he used to take his 20 victims.

Did anyone survive Nightmare on Elm Street? ›

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Still, Freddy managed to knock off Nancy's boyfriend Glen, her best friend Tina, Tina's boyfriend Rod, and even Nancy's mom. The only two major characters to survive were Nancy herself (Heather Langnkamp), and her father Donald Thompson (John Saxon).

Marge later reveals the truth to Nancy, about Freddy Krueger, the Springwood Slasher and the 20 children he murdered on Elm Street. Marge then confesses to being one of the parents who tracked down Freddy, cornered him in a boiler room, and burned him alive. Marge assures Nancy, that Freddy is dead and cannot hurt her.

While it is established that Freddie Krueger was a child murderer, the backstory is that he's afflicted with pedophilic disorder.

Fred "Freddy" Krueger is a character from the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. Freddy is a dream-demon who attacks his victims from within their dreams.

In it, Glen finally falls asleep and his body is sucked into the bed, leaving a gaping hole. Blood then erupts from the opening in the bed, which was achieved by flipped the entire room upside down and then having crew members pour blood through from above.

The biggest problem of all is that the 2010 A Nightmare on Elm Street is not scary. Scare tactics all center on sound effects and it gets old fast. Every time Freddy appears there is a scream of some kind that pierces the ears of the audience. No one is jumping at fright; maybe some will jump at the surprise.

Some of the men died in their sleep soon after. Medical authorities called the phenomenon Asian Death Syndrome. The condition afflicted men between the ages of 19 and 57 and was believed to be sudden unexplained death syndrome or Brugada syndrome or both.

With Krueger distracted by Quentin, Nancy uses a broken paper cutter blade to cut Freddy's gloved hand off, and then slice his throat. Afterward, Nancy torches the secret room, with Krueger's body left inside, while she and Quentin leave.

In the 2010 remake of the original film, Freddy's backstory is that he was a groundskeeper at Springwood Badham Preschool who tortured and sexually abused the teenage protagonists of the film when they were children.