I thought this would basically be the original film with better special effects and therefore did not go and see the movie. This is not a remake, but taking the old premise of the original and taking a completely different approach to this.

While we got in the first film a very brief explanation that parents burned Freddy to death after they discovered he was a pedophile and it was a bunch of kids hatching plans on how to stop him. This film main premise is almost until the very end, Freddy revealing his life to the kids. Firstly it seems that Freddy was burned to death, because children made false accusations of him and he has a legitimate beef to pick with these parents. It is not just a hacker and slasher, it is a great psychological thriller and a detective story.

The question until the very end was if Freddy was innocent and not and it was an interesting and sick twist of the story in the very end.

I think it was a really cool movie. Not much horror and gore, but a very fascinating and interesting story until the very end.

I was expecting a really bad film after reading some reviews but it definitely wasn't that bad. There's a few jump scares in there. The story wasn't hard to follow. It was going to give the film a 7 but at literally the last 5 seconds of the film he jumps out the mirror and kills her mum. Why isn't he dead what's the point in that. There isn't even a sequel.

I had a feeling this was going to be slated, and some of the criticism is justified, but in all honesty I liked it. The opening scenes are fantastic, it's a very smart looking film, it looks great. The content of the film is decent, it's such a shame that Robert Englund didn't do the film, but I can imagine he feels it's a role that's well and truly in the past. That fact was a nail in the coffin for the film, I'm not sure what many were expecting.

Some of the scares are a little on the tame side by today's standards, but the story is good, it deserved a bit more loving that it got. 7/10.