In a new trailer for Warner/New Line's "contemporary re-imagining" of A Nightmare on Elm Street, clocks tick backwards in a roadside Edward Hopper painting, as Kellan Lutz wanders past pig heads through an abandoned kitchen. "Hello?" he asks. "Anybody here?" YES! SOMEONE IS DEFINITELY THERE! He's wearing a cute, red-and-green-striped hipster sweater and fedora, has knives for fingers, and goes by the name Freddy Krueger.
The sequence is a fine one to start with, not because it's particularly imaginative, or scary, but because it offers a good indication of what's to come: a stable of pretty actors frantically delivering dialogue like, "It's me, it's you, it's Dean, it's Jesse, it's Chris. He's in all of our heads, Nancy!" (is that it? Are you suuuure you haven't left anyone out?) as Jackie Earle Haley pops up behind them to turn them into actor coleslaw. The budget is higher and the technology is better; missing, however, is Wes Craven's quiet, fiendish genius for filmmaking. If the first Elm Street is considered a "classic," this one should be content merely aspiring to "renter" status.
Verdict: Wake me up when it's over.
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