Everyone can appreciate a good jump scare, whether it’s from playing five minutes of Five Night’s At Freddy’s or if it’s your best friend coming up behind you moving with the stealthiness of a ninja. Horror films can offer a wide variety of frightful scenes that make you shiver in too much anticipation. Whenever a film, horror or not, is successful in capturing an audience's attention, you can bet your buttons that there will be sequels and remakes down the road. Sometimes, the preceding movies don’t always live up to the status of the original. When looking at the 1984 original movie ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ and its 2010 remake, there are a variety of similarities and differences. One difference between the movie ‘A Nightmare on Elm
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The parents of Springwood, in both productions play dumb to the fact that Freddy Krueger is a threatening issue. Thinking that they killed him once and for all, they don't realize that Freddy is back and angrier than ever until their children keep dying off like flies. Like I stated previously, Nancy’s mom is always the one to finally crack and tell the truth, even when the other parents try to deny it until it's too late.
The ends of the movies both leave it to seem like there's a twist yet the sequence leading up to it are quite different. In the original, it's hard to tell what's real and what's a dream because Freddy drags Nancy’s mom through a mirror after impaling her and after Nancy wakes up, her mom is still alive. As she gets in the car to go to school, the car turns into Freddy and they drive away. In the remake, after everything seems to be okay, Freddy kills Nancy’s by stabbing her through the eye. The movie abruptly ends there.
Everyone loves watching classic movies, both horror and non horror, and enjoy every component of it. When movies of old do so well after many generations, some directors make remakes or sequels to them. Sometimes they work out and sometimes they don't. The Nightmare on Elm Street is not the only movie that has been retold, and it's not the only one that is often compared with its newer
The parents of Springwood, in both productions play dumb to the fact that Freddy Krueger is a threatening issue. Thinking that they killed him once and for all, they don't realize that Freddy is back and angrier than ever until their children keep dying off like flies. Like I stated previously, Nancy’s mom is always the one to finally crack and tell the truth, even when the other parents try to deny it until it's too late.
The ends of the movies both leave it to seem like there's a twist yet the sequence leading up to it are quite different. In the original, it's hard to tell what's real and what's a dream because Freddy drags Nancy’s mom through a mirror after impaling her and after Nancy wakes up, her mom is still alive. As she gets in the car to go to school, the car turns into Freddy and they drive away. In the remake, after everything seems to be okay, Freddy kills Nancy’s by stabbing her through the eye. The movie abruptly ends there.
Everyone loves watching classic movies, both horror and non horror, and enjoy every component of it. When movies of old do so well after many generations, some directors make remakes or sequels to them. Sometimes they work out and sometimes they don't. The Nightmare on Elm Street is not the only movie that has been retold, and it's not the only one that is often compared with its newer