The movie starts out with a dream
sequence. The man who is asleep is Dean Russell and this is the first time we
see Freddy and they did a pretty good job of making him darker. Then he is
waken up by Nancy Holbrook. Kris Fowles his girlfriend sits down and talks to
Dean telling him it’s only a nightmare but Dean disagrees and you know he is
not crazy because when he was cut in the dream and woken up he had a cut on his
hand. In the end of the scene Dean looks like he’s committing suicide but is
being controlled by Freddy.
The Title flashes and we are now at
Deans Funeral and Kris now starts seeing images of Freddy at the funeral. She
confides in her ex- boyfriend Jesse Braun but Jesse dismisses them as just
nightmares but Nancy believes they are something else. Nancy’s mom has to leave
and while she’s gone Jesse come’s over and talks to Nancy they both end up
falling asleep and Jesse is awaken to his girlfriend freaking out and ends up
being cut to death. This is one of the scenes that’s almost exactly the same as
the original but its only one of few this movie does a good job of doing its
own thing.
Jesse
gets apprehended by the police and taken to jail where is killed by Freddy as
well. Quentin Smith who has always wanted to be with Nancy is now helping Nancy
figure out who is Freddy and why he wants to kill them. Nancy asks her mom but
her mom doesn’t tell her anything. Nancy knows her mom is lying to her so later
Quentin and Nancy sneak in her room and find an picture of her, Quentin, Dean,
and Kris. Nancy confronts her mom and her mom says she was only trying to protect
her. Her mom tells her about how Freddy like children a little too much, how he
used to be the groundskeeper at the Pre-school, and how she was her favorite.
Nancy’s mom says there just repressed memories turning into nightmares. Quentin
now believes Nancy’s mom is right and goes on with his life.
During
swim practice Quentin gets dragged under water and when he comes up you see the
parents chase down a defenseless and pathetic Freddy. The parents burn him to
death and Quentin is waken up and tells Nancy that he believes that Freddy
wants to kill them because they lied to their parents and got them killed.
Nancy and Quentin set off to the old pre-school. On the way there they stop at a drug store to
pick up some stay awake pills and Nancy goes into a dream and pulls out a piece
of Freddy’s sweater and she gets cut up in the dream. Quentin takes her to the
hospital.
At the
hospital Quentin steals some adrenalin and takes Nancy out of the hospital because
they were trying to put her under. They start heading back to the pre-school
and when they arrive they find a secret room. In this room Quentin finds
pictures of Nancy with Freddy they never show the pictures but the idea of what’s
on them is creepy enough. Nancy and Quentin know now they want them dead for
telling their parents the truth. Nancy come up with a plan to pull Freddy out
of the dream and kill him in the real world. Quentin agrees to stay awake and
watch Nancy. However Quentin falls asleep and is hurt by Freddy but Freddy
hears Nancy and stops to go after her. Nancy tries to get away from Freddy but
can’t and Freddy reveals the plan he wanted to keep her up so long that she
would go into a coma and Freddy and her could be together forever.
Quentin
struggling to wake her up sticks some adrenaline in her and she wakes up and
pulls Freddy into the real world. Nancy cuts of Freddy’s hand and kills him and
then burns the place down with Freddy’s body inside. However you here from the
firefighters there was no body pulled from the building. Quinton and Nancy
drive away in an ambulance. Nancy returns home with her mom and thanks her
saying I know you were trying to protect me. As she’s saying that she sees
Freddy in the mirror and he jumps out stabs her mother in the back of the head then
pulls her in the mirror.
As far
as remakes go I think this one is pretty good in gives winks to the original while
bringing something new and I thought they did a good job. Freddy is scary again
which I enjoy. He says a few one-liners but doesn’t overdue it. But Robert
England is Freddy and it kind of sucks not having him however Jackie Earle
Haley does a good job in the role. The special effects are fine but lack the
charm of the original. The ending while predictable was kind interesting they
way Freddy pulls her into the mirror. Overall I recommend it it’s not in
insulting remake, it’s a remake that I feel the creators are doing in for the
love of the series.
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