In 1984, New Line Cinema released a movie that was going to be the beginning of one of their biggest selling franchises in horror.
The movie was about teenagers having horrible dreams, and if they died in the dreams, they dies for real....of course I am talking about the classic movie A Nightmare On Elm Street. In case you have not seen this movie, here is a trailer:
I have quite a passion for this movie and the following sequels (even though they got cheesier and cheesier as they went along) because A Nightmare On Elm Street was the first horror movie I watched (at the age of 13) and it got me hooked on horror movies.
The psychology of the movie is fascinating, to think that a dream could actually have the power to kill you...the thought of that can make your worst nightmares have even more of an edge to them than before.
This year, there is a remake of A Nightmare On Elm Street is to be in the cinemas, and as much as I really hate sequels, I really want to go and see this...even though there is a high chance of this movie totally destroying this franchise for me, I'm attracted to this like a moth to a candle!
Here is the final trailer for the remake:
The only thing that worries me is that the best bits are shown in the trailer....but I shall give my thoughts on the movie when I see it.
A Nightmare On Elm Street is an 18 and will be released 7th May in the UK.
Sunday, 28 February 2010
Monday, 15 February 2010
Movie review...The Wolfman
On Saturday night I went and saw The Wolfman (15) at Vue Cinema, Festival Place, Basingstoke.
The movie is a remake of the Universal classic horror The Wolf Man (PG) that was released in 1941.
In this movie, Benicio Del Toro plays Lawrence Talbot, is a man who returns to his ancestral home after finding out that his brother had vanished. He is found dead, and it looks like he had been savaged by some beast.
Lawrence goes out to find the monster that killed his brother, and gets bitten by the beast that killed his brother...which makes him become the wolfman.
There's not really much that can be given away, but I'm not going to say too much as there is an interesting twist at the end of this movie which I don't remember in the original (I will have to watch it again later!) which was quite clever and explains more about the brother's death.
Although I enjoyed this movie, I feel there could have been a lot more to this. Sure there was gore, a little humour and even a little bit of romance...but it feels a little bit like they had over-thought some parts of it, and for some reason some parts felt like they had been taken from American Werewolf in London! It's a pity too as they had pulled in some great names like Anthony Hopkins, Art Malik, and Hugo Weaving.
If you want to watch a basic horror" and you have not seen the classic 1941 movie, The Wolfman is worth a watch, but in my humble opinion the superb original and Lon Chaney reign supreme....I give this movie 5/10.
The Wolfman is rated 15 and is in cinemas now.
The movie is a remake of the Universal classic horror The Wolf Man (PG) that was released in 1941.
In this movie, Benicio Del Toro plays Lawrence Talbot, is a man who returns to his ancestral home after finding out that his brother had vanished. He is found dead, and it looks like he had been savaged by some beast.
Lawrence goes out to find the monster that killed his brother, and gets bitten by the beast that killed his brother...which makes him become the wolfman.
There's not really much that can be given away, but I'm not going to say too much as there is an interesting twist at the end of this movie which I don't remember in the original (I will have to watch it again later!) which was quite clever and explains more about the brother's death.
Although I enjoyed this movie, I feel there could have been a lot more to this. Sure there was gore, a little humour and even a little bit of romance...but it feels a little bit like they had over-thought some parts of it, and for some reason some parts felt like they had been taken from American Werewolf in London! It's a pity too as they had pulled in some great names like Anthony Hopkins, Art Malik, and Hugo Weaving.
If you want to watch a basic horror" and you have not seen the classic 1941 movie, The Wolfman is worth a watch, but in my humble opinion the superb original and Lon Chaney reign supreme....I give this movie 5/10.
The Wolfman is rated 15 and is in cinemas now.
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