A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Story: A reworking of the 1984 film with razor-gloved-madman-from-beyond-the-grave Freddy Krueger dispatching meat-on-the-hoof teens. The Lowdown: Uninspired, unscary and just not very good at all.
Imagine a filmmaker going into 20th Century Fox and announcing that he’d had a dream the night before, which he wanted to turn into a film. Now, imagine him walking out of the studio a few minutes later with the go-ahead on the project. Well, such was the power of Robert Altman and such was […]