Granted he only became more cuddly and a caricature of himself as the films went on
but to make a new one with a different person playing Freddy, no matter how good he is, just seems a bit wrong. Did they learn nothing from the new Friday the 13th film? Utter cack.

God I loved new nightmare
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:40, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

The thing is though
the old Friday 13th films were also crap. They were all very bad films, but if you watch them all, you sort of amalgamate them in your head into one half decent horror, but they are generally not good.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:44, Reply)

Oh I agree, my reasoning behind comparing the two is that they were the two big horror saga's of the 80s
that are now going through a revival. It's just a shame they didn't leave them the hell alone.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:47, Reply)

But they have potential
that wasn't actually realised. None of the original Nightmare films were that scary, but the concept is terrifying. A man who kills you in your dreams, that's a scary thought. But due to low budgets it wasn't well executed and then it was destroyed by sequels.

Actually, Friday has far less potential as it's just a generic slasher pic. I thought Jason X was really funny and an excellent way of making a jumpy horror film which was also funny.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 14 Aug 2009, 23:51, Reply)