Jev

Looking forward to this lol actually wish it would come sooner. I made up my mind along time ago that Im all for a new actor taking over the role of Freddy.


Anyway

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Not showing much of anything as of yet though.

Loving the poster.

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tdigle

I'm actually disappointed that this remake is being helmed by Samuel Bayer, a music video director with no full-length films to his credit. But, I'm willing to give the man the benefit of the doubt, and I hope that he knocks this out of the park. Who knows? Maybe they couldn't get anyone of significance to direct due to producer interference; Pascal Laugier (the director of the epic Martyrs) left the Hellraiser reboot/remake because the Weinstein Brothers couldn't keep their grubby hands out of the creative process.

horrorfan_1986

The Nightmare series has never had a big time director. With the sole exception of Wes Craven, every one of the directors had less than five feature films to their credit. It was the first film for a couple of the directs too. I doubt the film studio will be too involved. New Line knows that Freddy Kruger helped them a lot in the early going of the studio. If it wasn't for Freddy, New Line may not even be around anymore.

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tdigle

I'm looking at this from the perspective of producers and the horror franchise reboots that have thus far come out this decade:

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) - Directed by Marcus Nispel, who, like Bayer, was a music video director beforehand.

The Hills Have Eyes (2006) - Directed by Alexandre Aja, who was a hot commodity after Haute Tension.

The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007) - Directed by Martin Weisz, who was brought in to direct this film based off of Grimm Love.

Halloween (2007) - Directed by Rob Zombie, who had already made two films that were well-receive by horror fans.

Friday The 13th (2009) - Directed by Marcus Nispel, who had become established with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake.

Halloween 2 (2009) - Directed by Rob Zombie, but, beforehand, was going to be directed by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, the directors of Inside.

I thought The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003 was good, so it's possible that an inexperienced director is capable of making a solid horror remake. But, given these trends, I would have expected the producers of Nightmare on Elm Street to go with someone with at least one film under their belt.

horrorfan_1986

Pretty much everyone you mentioned was inexperienced. Even thought these remakes will have a larger budget than the remakes, it's still about finding a way to make as cheap of a film as possible. Bringing in a "Big time" director would cost unneeded money.

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tdigle

Inexperienced? Four of the directors in that list put out four of the most of significant horror films of this decade, and almost all of them were first efforts. I'm not saying the director here isn't good, as I have nothing to go on, but do you really think that people should be as optimistic about Bayer as they were about Aja, Zombie, and the team of Bustillo and Maury? I'll gladly admit that these directors were relatively inexperienced, but that would mean that Bayer has no experience.

horrorfan_1986

Yes, they were inexperienced. You even admit it. I never even knew of Marcus Nispel before reading about him in Fangoria hyping the TCM remake. For the most part, these directors aren't the one bringing in the hype, it's the films themselves. Case in point, Night of the Living Dead remake compared to the Dawn of the Dead remake. The one had the well known horror God, yet it was a disappointment. Dawn, meanwhile, had then-unknown Zack Snyder. In the end, it was the unknown director who put out the better movie.

Experience or not, you won't know whether an unknown can put on a great film until seeing the movie.

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tdigle

I said they were relatively inexperienced, not flat-out inexperienced, unlike Bayer, who doesn't have a movie credit to his name. You seem to think that my argument is flawed because you have categorized both directors with one or two films and directors with no films as "inexperienced," when the fact remains that directors with one or two films actually do have experience; these directors are only inexperienced when you compare them to the likes of Spielberg and Allen, and I made this clear as day in the post that you have quoted.

Also, save for the first twenty minutes, the Dawn of the Dead remake was nothing special (and, Savini's Night Of The Living Dead remake was horrible, but what do you expect from a special effects wizard, not a horror master, who had only directed three episodes of Tales From The Darkside?); it sure as hell doesn't compare with what Aja did with The Hills Have Eyes or what Zombie did with Halloween.

But, as I have already conceded since my first post, I'll wait to see what Bayer can do and reserve judgment until then. I still think it would have been a smarter move to employ a director with an independent horror film to his name, given the success that has come about with this strategy. Also, I'll have to disagree with the cost-effectiveness of someone like Bayer; most directors would be lucky to see half of what the members of their principal cast get. Getting an independent horror filmmaker from Europe would have raised the director's salary from about 1/30 to 1/25 of the budget.

Necro

Added new Teaser Poster.

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Necro

Added trailer. Damn it looks great!

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