InsaneJournal

Current mood:

geeky

The original Nightmare on Elm Street is why I originally got interested in studying film criticism. It introduced me to the wild, crazy shenanigans of Wes Craven. Despite myself and my various attempts at having intellectual street cred, I love talking about the implications of the slasher genre and analyzing the bigger players. He's definitely my favorite slasher villain of all time, ever, and in some way, I hold all/most of my violent crazies (except Barty, who does perfectly fine on his own) up to the standard of Freddy Krueger.

And the reboot actually looks promising, rather than well intentioned but mildly suspect (e.g., what Rob Zombie did with Halloween) or totally missing the point (e.g., the Friday the 13th reboot — the whole point of the first one, and the thing that made it interesting was that Mrs. Voorhees was the killer). And, really, I could do the whining fan-nerd bit about Robert Englund not reprising his role, but… seriously, there isn't any way I'm going to argue with Jackie Earle Haley. I may have only seen him in Watchmen and as a kid in Bad News Bears, but I like the idea of him as Freddy, Robert Englund apparently likes him as Freddy, and just akdkfjfhf

SO. EXCITED.