A Nightmare on Elm Street

Last night I went up to the Standing Order bar to meet my Dad, and we had a couple of drinks and a plate of fish and chips. It was a nice trip out.

Today I had the day off work and so I went along to the Cineworld cinema to see A Nightmare on Elm Street, directed by Samuel Bayer and based on the legendary Wes Craven film from 1984. The film is set in the present day in the small town of Springwood, Ohio, where a group of the local teenagers are all experiencing the same nightmare where they are being stalked by Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley): a man with a horribly burned face and a glove with razor-sharp knives on the fingers. The teenagers soon realise that if they are injured in their dreams then the injury is carried through to reality, and so if they are killed by Krueger in their dreams, then they die in reality. They realise that they have to stay awake long enough to figure out the secret in their pasts that connects them with Krueger and how to stop him before they are killed. The movie really wasn't as bad as I had feared, and actually makes a good stab at reinventing the movie after all the sequels (seven if you count Freddy vs. Jason). Jackie Earle Haley was very good as Freddy, and wisely didn't imitate Robert Englund, who played the role in all the previous films.

Before the movie there were some trailers for some movies that look really good: REC 2 (I really liked the original REC film), Inception (which I have been wanting to see for awhile) and Predators.