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The iconic scenes that survive in the new Nightmare on Elm St.
If you loved Wes Craven's original A Nightmare on Elm Street, then you know the most famous scenes: Amanda Wyss' Tina floating in midair, Heather Langenkamp's Nancy in the tub, Nick Corri's Rod Lane hanged in his jail cell.
Many of those famous bits will appear in the upcoming remake of Nightmare, including the jail scene. (Spoilers ahead!)
Kellan Lutz, who plays a character named Dean in the remake, said that the film includes the "jail cell hanging" that befell Corri's Rod. (There's no one named Rod Lane in the new film, so we'll have to wait to see who gets hanged in their sleep.)
"You'll have to see who does that," Lutz told a group of reporters last Friday in Beverly Hills, Calif., where he was promoting The Twilight Saga: New Moon. "It does happen. It's so much fun."
The trailer for the new film reveals that other classic moments will show up in the movie, including some version of Tina's demise and Freddy's gloved hand emerging from Nancy's bathtub. But Lutz said the familiar scenes will get a new twist in the 2010 version, which stars Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger.
"A lot of movie trailers somewhat show what the movie is, [but] you don't see [all of] it," Lutz said. "[Ours] just gives you that taste so you know that it is somewhat of a remake. You need those crucial scenes. Basically, it's a revamped version of the first one, but it is different in a lot of aspects. So you know if you like the first one, this is going to be a new, somewhat cool spin on it."
The new movie will also take things beyond the 1984 original, which was shocking for the time but seems pretty tame to modern audiences.
"Since all our minds are so corrupted with blood, guts and gore, it takes something special to scare our generation now," Lutz said. "Where 10 years ago, someone just knocking on the door, you're like 'Oh, who is that?' What Nightmare on Elm Street is going to show [is] it's scary. How it's shot and the things that you will see from the movie will scare you. And it's a great psychological thriller."
The new Nightmare on Elm Street opens April 30, 2010.
By Virgil's Diner at 2:18 PM ON 11/10/09
I'm not sure how to take the comment "our minds are so corrupted with blood...it takes something special to scare our generation now." If that means adopting a "Saw" philosophy and upping the gore and blood to induce terror/disgust in the audience, then I shall be very put out. I have my fingers crossed that the whole torture porn/horror genre had finally burned itself out. I'm hoping that Kellan Lutz means they've put more emphasis on the psychological thriller and less on the blood and guts. "Funny Games" (2008) was one of the most unsettling films I've seen in a long time. Almost all the violence happens off camera, but the film's constant tension had me crawling out of skin. Let Freddy be a thing of nightmares - not Jigsaw in a fedora.
By Nick the Geek at 6:35 PM ON 11/10/09
I agree with Virgil's Diner. Nightmare on Elm Street needs to be the stuff of nightmares not fancy effects. Most of the old horror movies relied on imagination over effects and were scarier for it. There is no way Hollywood can create anything scarier than the human mind can concoct when properly primed.
Jaws kept thousands out of the water because of what they couldn't see, not the fake shark at the VERY end of the movie.
If they really want to push the envelope they will tie into real nightmares. Read psych journals about the things that really scare people and make it happen on screen. Put us behind the eyes of the characters as their nightmares become reality.
I'll be honest, almost nothing scares me anymore, but if there is a scene where a character "wakes up" and goes to the bathroom to start the daily routine and has teeth falling out while brushing their teeth ... yep I'd be done right then and there, nightmares for weeks. I don't care how the character dies after that I would be freaked for the rest of the movie.
Hollywood, are you paying attention? Stop trying to gross teens out and start scaring us again.
By Sithboy at 6:43 PM ON 11/10/09
I liked when the tongue came out of the phone.
"I'm your boyfriend now, Nancy!"
By demoncat at 7:41 PM ON 11/10/09
nice they are keeping some of the classic scenes from the original all but the blood fountain from the bed. at least the producers of the remake are honoring the original by keeping some things in tact and trying to make nightmare what it could not be back then a horror film that should make jigsaw scream in fear
By HarveyMidnight at 10:20 PM ON 11/10/09
My big fear is that this 'new, somewhat cool spin' is that maybe in this new version, Freddie will survive the fire---- so no more invading people's dreams, he's just sneakin' into their houses.
By HarveyMidnight at 10:22 PM ON 11/10/09
My big fear is that this 'new, somewhat cool spin' is that maybe in this new version, Freddie will survive the fire---- so no more invading people's dreams, he's just sneakin' into their houses.
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