Scream Stream: How A Nightmare on Elm Street stands out in the crowd

The slasher film stars Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker and Kellan Lutz.

Have you ever been terrified of sleeping? Well, you aren't alone! A few high-school friends are scared of even taking small naps. The straightforward rehash of the 1984 film of the same name, A Nightmare on Elm Street features the ensemble cast including Jackie Earle Haley as one of the scariest antagonists ever with Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker and Kellan Lutz in key roles.

The movie introduces the devil in the first few minutes of the film. He looks devious with a burnt face and huge iron nails.

The film begins with a high-school kid who finds himself standing in a kitchen of a cafe and a burnt man with iron nail hands in front of him. The man with the devious look tries to kill him and gives him a cut in the hand. Suddenly he wakes up from this nightmare and finds a cut in his hands. A while later he can be seen cutting his own throat while he is still dreaming. His school friend Kris witnesses the brutal event and a while later, she can be seen having the same nightmares as well.

The makers of horror movies tend to put a lot of unnecessary scenes with a loud background score to prove that they are indeed making a slasher film. A Nightmare on Elm Street have rehashed a few of the iconic scenes from the 1984 original film, but it wouldn’t let you complain about something like that because of the better visual effects.

Another horrifying scene, which doesn’t see bloodshed but surely scares, is when Nancy, sitting in her room, falls asleep and the ghost tries to enter the room from the back of her wall.

After a few more brutal killings, Nancy and her love interest in the film, Quentin, decide to go into the depth of the whole fiasco and learn that a burnt man who has been killing all their friends, was murdered by their parents and now has come back from the dead to take revenge.

Both of them decide to go on the same dream and finish his story once and for all but to everyone’s surprise, he enters the real world and the horror begins again.

Samuel Bayer’s effort to recreate one of the best slasher movies has stood out due to the apt background scores by Steve Jablonsky with Jeff Cutter’s cinematography and Karen Frick’s set decoration, which makes it a perfect watch for Halloween night.

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