5) Nightmare On Elm Street
Wes Craven’s Nightmare on Elm Street franchise always set itself apart from other horror series with its strain of subversive, black comedy. Under his crispy face mask, Robert Englund managed to turn the despicable Freddy Krueger into one of the most charismatic icons of the genre.
It would always have been tough to reboot the franchise with a new lead, then, and 2010’s Nightmare on Elm Street redo did not stick the landing.
On paper, Jackie Earle Haley (Rorschach in Watchmen) is a solid choice to replace Englund, but he never gets a chance to match up to the original. The film he is stuck in is just so unrelentingly grim and completely at odds with the tone of the rest of the franchise.
Like Friday the 13th, this remake looks to have succeeded where numerous teenagers fighting for their lives have failed and might have actually killed Freddy Krueger once and for all.