The film that brings back horror icon Freddy Krueger as a darker and more sinister character than ever before. While Freddy is on the prowl, a group of teenagers being stalked soon learn they all have a common factor making them targets for this twisted killer.
Jackie Earle Haley's Krueger is a blast, but the child-molester twist is more depressingly clinical than dream-logic harrowing.
– Stephen Garrett,
Time Out New York,
5 May 2010
rotten:
This is the worst yet from Michael Bay's horror production company Platinum Dunes, which also brought you rubbish re-makes of Halloween and Friday the 13th.
– Nigel Floyd,
Time Out,
6 May 2010
rotten:
It's the Bay touch you feel in the way actors register as body count, characters go undeveloped, and sensation trumps feeling. A nightmare, indeed.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
14 May 2010
fresh:
Freddy's back -- and he's slicker and more sinister than ever.
– Christine Champ,
Film.com,
6 May 2011
fresh:
I did jump a few times, and I liked Haley's dour malevolence, but overall, the new Nightmare on Elm Street is a by-the-numbers bad dream.