It was humorous. i laughed AT it.

lajimi: It looks like they took all the humor out of the film. The humor, IMHO, is what made Nightmare great and Freddy cool.

The humor was added in as the movies progressed and went from moderately amusing in the first one to down right campy in the most recent.

Its a horror movie, Im happy they took the comedy out

IdBeCrazyIf: lajimi: It looks like they took all the humor out of the film. The humor, IMHO, is what made Nightmare great and Freddy cool.

The humor was added in as the movies progressed and went from moderately amusing in the first one to down right campy in the most recent.

Its a horror movie, Im happy they took the comedy out

Humor has always been part of the best horror.

lajimi: It looks like they took all the humor out of the film. The humor, IMHO, is what made Nightmare great and Freddy cool.

Are you kidding me? Humor is what killed the original franchise, with Freddy ending up a dark stand up comedian instead of the terrorizing figure from the original. Why do you think Wes Craven was only involved with three of them (original ,Dream Warriors, and New Nightmare).

You know, at this point...I'm just looking forward to it so we can get a release of the films (remastered) and the entire Freddy's Nightmares show on DVD. That way I can laugh at the cheesy, get a little creeped out by everything else, and be happier than I would watching Rorschach pretend to be a burn victim.

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gshepnyc: Humor has always been part of the best horror.

Well moderated and within reason. And then you get attempted comedy attempts like Jason X with the whole "Guys, it's okay! He just wanted his machete back!"

I face palmed at that... it was about as bad as Garbage Day clip

Humor has its place in horror to a certain extent. Its to provide the audience some time to catch their breath before the next big scare.

BlorfMaster: Dreeeaaamwarriooirs!!! whooaahhh!!

funny I just posted the same thing on my facebook!

Were the Dream Warriors! Dont wanna dream no more!

dopeydwarf: Agreed. That one still had one of the best kills ever though. Liquid nitrogen FTW.

I can give a nod to that as well.. it did have some pretty decent death scenes. Although in the friday the 13th series being split in two with a tent stake is still my fav.

With the Nightmare series, being walked out like a puppet by your veins creeped me the fark out when I was younger.

He should do a movie where he plays Seth Green.

The first one had humor. I remember Heather Langenkamp looking into a mirror and, reacting to her haggard, sleepless countenance, exclaiming "God, I look like I'm TWENTY!"

I also thought the part where the mom gets pulled through the door was kind of funny.

An article about the remake of a movie made by a company named "New Line Cinema" should have warranted the irony tag.

lajimi: It looks like they took all the humor out of the film. The humor, IMHO, is what made Nightmare great and Freddy cool.

Yeah, not trying to harp on you too much about this, but where was the humor in the first one?

By the way, I'll tell you what's funny. It's the "horror" movies they try to pass off as scary these days.

/Lawn. It's green.

Dumb-Ass-Monkey: that said, the first one gave us some full frontal Heather Langenkamp *lust* in the bathtub scene.

Check out the commentary and documentary on the recent Special Edition. Wasn't her. Body double. Which makes me scratch my head since she did another movie that same year and had no problem doing the copious nudity in that one. Scheduling conflict, maybe...

JoeJitsu: An article about the remake of a movie made by a company named "New Line Cinema" should have warranted the irony tag.

Not disagreeing, exactly, but the first Nightmare but New Line on the map. It could be considered their flagship.

The release date is a count down. 4/3/2010. Corporate hack must have seen Watchmen release date.

zinethar: t Nightmare but put New Line on the map.

FTFM

IdBeCrazyIf: dopeydwarf: Agreed. That one still had one of the best kills ever though. Liquid nitrogen FTW.

I can give a nod to that as well.. it did have some pretty decent death scenes. Although in the friday the 13th series being split in two with a tent stake is still my fav.

With the Nightmare series, being walked out like a puppet by your veins creeped me the fark out when I was younger.

Yeah, that freaked me out too. Oh, and the clowns. :(

Jizz Master Zero: Dumb-Ass-Monkey: that said, the first one gave us some full frontal Heather Langenkamp *lust* in the bathtub scene.

Check out the commentary and documentary on the recent Special Edition. Wasn't her. Body double. Which makes me scratch my head since she did another movie that same year and had no problem doing the copious nudity in that one. Scheduling conflict, maybe...

Citation needed!

dopeydwarf: IdBeCrazyIf: gshepnyc: Humor has always been part of the best horror.

Well moderated and within reason. And then you get attempted comedy attempts like Jason X with the whole "Guys, it's okay! He just wanted his machete back!"

I face palmed at that... it was about as bad as Garbage Day clip


Agreed. That one still had one of the best kills ever though. Liquid nitrogen FTW.

I was impressed with Jason X for the liquid nitrogen, and the auger death.

limboslam: Yeah, not trying to harp on you too much about this, but where was the humor in the first one?

"I'm your boyfriend now, Nancy!" (slurp, slurp, slurp)

Courtney Cox-Zucker: "I'm your boyfriend now, Nancy!" (slurp, slurp, slurp)

But it didn't feel out of place IMHO, it felt like a pervert being a pervert and making a joke at someone elses expense. Humor in horror movies works best when we're not supposed to laugh at the joke or moment because the moment we do we're just a sick and twisted as the antagonist.

The Hitcher had some great sick comedy moments too, which IMHO is a great reference film for how to get comedy in a horror movie.

Jizz Master Zero: Dumb-Ass-Monkey: that said, the first one gave us some full frontal Heather Langenkamp *lust* in the bathtub scene.

Check out the commentary and documentary on the recent Special Edition. Wasn't her. Body double. Which makes me scratch my head since she did another movie that same year and had no problem doing the copious nudity in that one. Scheduling conflict, maybe...

Like what - she couldn't get both tits to show up on the same day?

mrtk421: Humor has its place in horror to a certain extent. Its to provide the audience some time to catch their breath before the next big scare.

It is almost impossible to have a true horror movie. You have to either interject action, or comedy into it. Horror movies fall flat on their faces without another component.

Came for the Michael Bay hate, leaving let down

BarnabusJ: Came for the Michael Bay hate, leaving let down

We have hope because in this instance Bay is only providing his input as a producer

BlorfMaster: Dreeeaaamwarriooirs!!! whooaahhh!!



Come out to play!

dopeydwarf: Meh. The original is a classic from my childhood. All these remakes piss me off. Nobody can replace Robert Englund as Krueger. NOBODY! First they butcher Psycho, then they molest Halloween, and now they fark with Nightmare? Stop pissing in my cheerios Whoreywood.

It is just Gen-X writers and producers. They are a pack of unoriginal children. They forever pineing for their childhood, causeing all these remakes and then whine when the remake does not live up to their childish expectations. This generation needs to shut its ageing hippster mouth and grow the fark up, christ these assholes are about 30 now and still a bunch of slacker fark ups.

I didn't see anyone getting mercilessly slaughtered. I saw a lot of quick cuts and such, did I watch the right video?

the money is in the banana stand: mrtk421: Humor has its place in horror to a certain extent. Its to provide the audience some time to catch their breath before the next big scare.

It is almost impossible to have a true horror movie. You have to either interject action, or comedy into it. Horror movies fall flat on their faces without another component.

Right, not unless they are actually good:

Who?

He moves like Freddy, but he just doesn't have the voice. Granted, Englund's was pitch-shifted, but it sounded menacing. Even at his most playful, you never forgot how evil he was.

I wish some cable channel would have a marathon of Freddy's Nightmares before this gets released. Yeah, it was a cheap Outer Limits/Twilight Zone knockoff, but it had some good episodes. The one where a girl was stuck in a dream, watching her family gradually succumb to radiation poisioning as she remembered launch codes for nukes...the "conformity episode" where a kid refuses to be like everyone else, only to find out that they're being turned into robots. I was like 9 or 10 when that was released and was freaked after he tried to grab his friend from the conversion plant, only to have his robot arm pull off into his hands. At the time, I'd never seen a Nightmare movie. I didn't have the stomach for horror until a few years later. The trailers alone - combined with my restless, overactive imagination - were more than enough to horrify me. Later down the line, I found that the blanks my imagination filled in were far worse than the films themselves.

Friday the 13th, though unrelated to the show, also had some decent eps.

Zombie Eater: The trailers alone - combined with my restless, overactive imagination - were more than enough to horrify me. Later down the line, I found that the blanks my imagination filled in were far worse than the films themselves.

That's probably true of about 98.9% of horror movies. Hell, a trip down the Horror VHS aisle as a kid used to freak the bejeezus out of me - some of the box covers really sent my imagination reeling. The movies themselves, however, were usually silly as hell.

Quasar: IdBeCrazyIf: gshepnyc: Humor has always been part of the best horror.

Well moderated and within reason. And then you get attempted comedy attempts like Jason X with the whole "Guys, it's okay! He just wanted his machete back!"

I face palmed at that... it was about as bad as Garbage Day clip

That movie was awesome. Girl hanging on to a metal bar in a spaceship that had a hole blown in the side, and not only is she not instantly depressurized, but she says "this sucks on so many levels."

PUN MASTERPIECE

Yeah Jason X is by far the best of the series.

dopeydwarf: BTW, does anyone else find Jackie Earl Haley to be a creepier name than Freddy Krueger? Sounds like a serial killer to me. Everyone knows all the best serial killers use their middle name.

Serial killers are often listed by all three names simply because that's how the criminal case was filed.