Not being a massive fan of the original (I still think it's a good film, but far from amazing) I was fine with a remake having another actor getting the chance to play a horror icon. Jackie Earle Haley is fine in the movie (although his voice isn't scary at all in this, a shame), but everything around him is the problem. The visual effects department decided Freddy needed to look more realistic and used CGI and it just doesn't look scary like it used to. Freddy's physical appearance was part of the scares of the original, but it just looks off in this movie. The visual effects other than that are quite good and Samuel Bayer clearly spent time getting everything right in regards to that, but he doesn't do anything else noteworthy. Story is retread material instead of a re-imagining including several sequences lifted straight from the original. Never a good way to do a remake, in my opinion. The premise is still genuinely terrifying, but Craven took it further and did better things with it than Bayer did in this one.
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