I damn well hated it, but that hasn't stopped countless Americans flocking along to see it opening weekend as A Nightmare on Elm Street coined a huge $32.2 million in its opening weekend, enough to see Warner Bros greenlight a sequel, which they hope will be in 3D.
Producer Brad Fuller spewed this to Dread Central: "We think that 3D movies have to be designed and written as such. If Eric (Heisserer) and Wesley (Strick) came to us with a Nightmare sequel script that is for a 3D movie, we’d be fools not to make it. Using 3D for a Nightmare sequel has to work conceptually for us, though. I don’t want to shoehorn the story just so we can use 3D technology. I do really think this movie and the visual style would work well within a 3D environment, though, so you never know."
Story? Work? Photocopying the first film with a shiny new photocopying machine still results in a pale imitation of the original, no matter how slick it looks. Either do something different or better the first one, simple as that. This remake wasn't even fun, just flat. I am not looking forward to the sequel.
