{"id":100295,"date":"2020-10-29T14:16:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T11:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-deep-dive-into-and-ranking-of-slasher-remakes\/"},"modified":"2020-10-29T14:16:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T11:16:49","slug":"a-deep-dive-into-and-ranking-of-slasher-remakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-deep-dive-into-and-ranking-of-slasher-remakes\/","title":{"rendered":"#A Deep Dive Into and Ranking of Slasher Remakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a37a57f2382d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a37a57f2382d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-deep-dive-into-and-ranking-of-slasher-remakes\/#Onto_the_ranks\" >Onto the ranks!<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-deep-dive-into-and-ranking-of-slasher-remakes\/#5_Halloween_2007\" >5. Halloween (2007)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-deep-dive-into-and-ranking-of-slasher-remakes\/#4_Friday_the_13th_2009\" >4. Friday the 13th (2009)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-deep-dive-into-and-ranking-of-slasher-remakes\/#3_Childs_Play_2019\" >3. Child\u2019s Play (2019)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-deep-dive-into-and-ranking-of-slasher-remakes\/#2_The_Texas_Chainsaw_Massacre_2003\" >2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre\u00a0(2003)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-deep-dive-into-and-ranking-of-slasher-remakes\/#1_A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street_2010\" >1. A Nightmare on Elm Street\u00a0(2010)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#A Deep Dive Into and Ranking of Slasher Remakes<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.7--><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome to Carnage Classified, a monthly column where we break down the historical and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> influence of all things horror, then rank the films of each month\u2019s category accordingly. Franchises, movements, filmmakers, sub-genres, etc\u2026It\u2019s all here! This entry is about slasher remakes. Let\u2019s get to the breakdown. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For horror fans, October is the best time of the year. We overindulge in our already indulgent horror movie watchlists. We add new flicks to the lineup, searching for new scares while reminiscing in old favorites. Somewhere on that recycled film list, there\u2019s a group of names that are destined to make an <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earance at least once: <strong>Leatherface<\/strong>, <strong>Michael<\/strong>, <strong>Jason<\/strong>, <strong>Freddy<\/strong>, <strong>Chucky<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s hard to pinpoint what exactly ties the horror fandom\u2019s cult love for these films together aside from their habitation in, or proximity to, the golden age of slashers. While this era is technically bound within the years of 1978 (enter: <strong><em>Halloween<\/em><\/strong>) and 1984 (hello, <strong><em>A Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em><\/strong>), I find it equally important to look at the films that preceded and succeeded it. Every slasher we encounter is, even perhaps subconsciously, based on the icons previously mentioned, even though Chucky and Leatherface are excluded by these parameters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But what is it about these slashers that lets them live rent-free in our minds decades after release? The plots themselves are all formulaic, but the killers are special. In slasher films, the genre is synonymous with the figurehead, not the plot \u2014 it\u2019s the killers we root for.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like so many other horror films, these slashers aren\u2019t victim-focused.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although we spend more time with those characters who succumb to their slaughter, we\u2019re far more interested in the person wielding the weapon. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The killers don\u2019t have a personal motive to victimize certain characters in particular \u2014 it\u2019s simply misplaced anger, selfishness, latent repressed sexuality, or downright bloodthirst \u2014 and we\u2019re along for the ride. We\u2019re drawn to either end of the spectrum: relentless personality from Freddy and Chucky or unwavering coldness from Jason, Michael, and Leatherface.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thematically, this pinnacle era of slashers centered on teenagers, allowing the target audience to see themselves in the films. Yet the lack of adherence to logic and heightened suspension of disbelief permits enough separation from reality to make these films fun, not existential. This focus on youth allowed the plot\u2019s set up to focus on what teens seem to love the most: sex and violence!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The youth-centricity of the 1970s and 1980s is clearly what defined the horror filmmaking of the era, but why did these classics later get remade? Save for <em><strong>Child\u2019s Play<\/strong><\/em>, each of these franchises had concluded by the late 1990s or early 2000s. History tells us that nostalgia creeps around about every twenty years. When the 2000s hit, even with a vastly different culture and fashion, we had our eyes looking back to the \u201980s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite how visibly different the 2000s seem to be, they were equally youth-centric: think about any hit television show, like <em>My Super Sweet 16<\/em> or <em>The Hills<\/em>. Teens loved watching other teens live their dramatic lives, so why not also watch them lose those lives at the hands of brutal masked men? Of course, there was also the revival of teen horror spawned by 1996\u2019s <strong><em>Scream<\/em><\/strong> that contributed to slasher nostalgia and prepped the stage for new additions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Slasher films set themselves up for immortality because the killers don\u2019t seem to die, and the victims can\u2019t seem to escape. Given all these factors, it\u2019s no surprise that we saw these iconic films rebooted in the 2000s and on. But can they stand on their own merit, or are they irredeemably subservient to their parent films?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week we\u2019re looking at the following remakes: <strong><em>The Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/em><\/strong> (2003), <strong><em>Halloween<\/em><\/strong> (2007), <strong><em>Friday the 13th<\/em> <\/strong>(2009), <strong><em>A Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em> <\/strong>(2010), and <strong><em>Child\u2019s Play<\/em><\/strong> (2019).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Onto_the_ranks\"><\/span>Onto the ranks!<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><em>You are hereby warned that the following may include <strong>spoilers<\/strong> and discussions of films that include mature content, including sexual assault, abuse, and suicide.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"5_Halloween_2007\"><\/span>5. Halloween (2007)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-358826\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/halloween-young-michael.jpg\" alt=\"Halloween Young Michael\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/halloween-young-michael.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/halloween-young-michael-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/halloween-young-michael-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/halloween-young-michael-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Rob Zombie<\/strong>\u2019s <em>Halloween<\/em> is promising in its narrative spin. However, it ends up unspooling its potential as soon as we get settled. Uniquely, it puts more focus on Michael Myers as a child, aiming to give context, reason, and background to one of slasher history\u2019s most arcane figures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We spend nearly forty minutes watching Michael\u2019s childhood play out: his unstable home life, his torment at school, and his own psychopathic tendencies. He is coddled by Dr. Loomis, his mother, and even the janitor at the institution. His obsession with masks is labeled as a desire to hide within, and from, himself. He is concretely humanized. We\u2019re fed loads of emotional capital, so when Michael kills as an adult (Tyler Mane), the film posits it as chapters in his psychological survey.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sensationalism is equally integral to the plot. It runs consistently parallel to the brutal murders: <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>reels, documentary-style coverage of Michael, best-selling books, and dramatic seminars. Michael has editorialized: everyone wants a piece of his mind, even when it\u2019s for sale.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The film\u2019s most horrific aspect, however, isn\u2019t the reign of Michael Myers. It\u2019s the copious amounts of misogynistic content that swarms the screen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Slashers have always combined sex with violence, hence the whole \u201cvirgins always live\u201d trope. The 2007 <em>Halloween<\/em> takes this to frustrating extents. With a completely unnecessary and graphic rape scene, prolonged, torturous deaths for female characters, and a heightened focus on full or partial nudity, the objectifying sexual violence is at a nauseating peak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The boldly stylized atmosphere of Zombie\u2019s remake contains clever use of soundtrack with the iconic score, boosted brutality, and added characterization to slasher history\u2019s (arguably) most famous icon. Where Michael was a mystery, he\u2019s now been wholly unmasked (symbolically of course). I prefer the enigma. The transparency of every single character actually ends up making them far less interesting, the archetypal acting is a bother, and the misogyny surely doesn\u2019t help <em>Halloween<\/em>\u2019s case either.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"4_Friday_the_13th_2009\"><\/span>4. Friday the 13th (2009)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-358827\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/jason-voorhees-and-clay-fighting.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Voorhees And Clay Fighting\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/jason-voorhees-and-clay-fighting.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/jason-voorhees-and-clay-fighting-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/jason-voorhees-and-clay-fighting-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/jason-voorhees-and-clay-fighting-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <em>Friday the 13th<\/em> franchise has always delivered on the kills: they\u2019re typically what makes these films. This franchise has never been my favorite of the classic slashers (it\u2019s my least favorite, actually), mostly because I\u2019ve never had any interest in Jason Voorhees. Where the 2010 <em>Friday the 13th<\/em> flexes is, expectantly, on the kills, but also in crafting a more compelling version of Jason than I\u2019ve ever seen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The franchise is formulaic: enter teens, enter Jason, enter savage slayings. This film plays with that expectation, opening up with a first act that does exactly that\u2026 to completion. When we realize that this group of teens is being picked off way too quickly for the film to last its run time, we discover that this <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of murders is only a set up to the actual story. It\u2019s a clever way to poke fun at expectation, by delivering precisely what we\u2019ve come to know, then subverting it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The true narrative is that Clay (Jared Padalecki) encounters a group of teens, and eventually Jason, in the Crystal Lake area while searching for his missing sister, Whitney (Amanda Righetti). Whitney was a survivor of that first act fake-out and is being held hostage by Jason because she resembles a younger version of his mother.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This dynamic is interesting because it emotionally pits the protagonist and the antagonist against each other. Both men are clinging to the memory and a hope for a loved family member, and neither is willing to let go. This tug-of-war also draws us into Whitney herself, as regardless of who her protector is\u00a0 \u2014 Jason can feasibly be called a protector because he does not harm her, and he is protecting the image of her \u2014 she is cherished.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s an emotional winner-take-all mentality of this film, as every character on every side of this main conflict is deeply embedded in the heart of the narrative. Despite the underlying sentimentality, we aren\u2019t feeling sappy for long because the gore in this movie still kicks ass.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although I said I\u2019ve never been a fan of Jason, I gotta respect this man on his brawn alone. There were some really creative kills and \u201cJesus Christ!\u201d moments, which is all you can ask for from a good slasher. The sentimentality of <em>Friday the 13th<\/em>\u00a0is supplemental, but it\u2019s what makes us care.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3_Childs_Play_2019\"><\/span>3. Child\u2019s Play (2019)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-358828 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/chucky-with-knife.jpg\" alt=\"Chucky With Knife slasher remakes\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/chucky-with-knife.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/chucky-with-knife-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/chucky-with-knife-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/chucky-with-knife-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although this movie finds itself in the middle of this ranking, I don\u2019t like it. I do, however, respect it. This remake is a reimagining of my favorite franchise from this list, and it completely disposes of everything that made Chucky\u2026 Chucky. There\u2019s no real person, no humor, and no motive, just a red-headed doll in a familiar s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>ed shirt and overalls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Worth an accolade is how Chucky was reimagined to be relevant to the era we live in. The 2019 <em>Child\u2019s Play<\/em> revives the franchise with a capitalist spin as AI <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> becomes more popular in our day-to-day lives. Chucky\u2019s new origin story is that a disgruntled factory employee disables all of the toy\u2019s safety protocols after being fired for daydreaming. It almost feels like a political statement of proletariat revolt from the working hand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Similar to Google\u2019s Home and Amazon\u2019s Alexa, Chucky is a hyperbolized version of the systems that we purchase to take some of our agency away: to complete tasks we could easily do ourselves. The value is in presenting the dangers of technological reliance and shows how shakily we straddle the line between control we give up and control we lose by consequence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though Chucky was rigged from the start, <em>Child\u2019s Play<\/em> makes a few suggestions that his murder spree is partially learned behavior, like when he mimics Andy stabbing the knife into a cutting board. Eerily, this calls upon the whole foundation of what constitutes AI: the ability to learn and then do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The final set piece of the film combines technological fear with the film\u2019s underlying capitalist themes. The toy store is transformed into a horror landscape, with a glitchy rendition of the Buddi commercial kicking it all off. Chucky uses Cloud-control to make use of the other toys as weapons and lower the store\u2019s steel gates, both a literal and symbolic way of trapping people within a consumerist cage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Child\u2019s Play<\/em> closes with Kaslan, the toy company, denying any culpability in Chucky\u2019s terrorism, and we simultaneously see a new Buddi doll being stocked on a shelf. This blunt reminder solidifies the reason for the film\u2019s new focus: the dangers of consumerism and the lack of corporate responsibility that drives it.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2_The_Texas_Chainsaw_Massacre_2003\"><\/span>2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre\u00a0(2003)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-358830\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/leatherface-wielding-chainsaw.jpg\" alt=\"Leatherface Wielding Chainsaw\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/leatherface-wielding-chainsaw.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/leatherface-wielding-chainsaw-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/leatherface-wielding-chainsaw-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/leatherface-wielding-chainsaw-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Texas Chainsaw Massacre <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is first and foremost a slasher film. But, it\u2019s deeply ingrained in the folk horror subgenre, as well. Where the original film clothed its rural visuals in grainy ultra-warmth, the 2003 version of\u00a0<em>The<\/em> <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is cold. This coldness isn\u2019t detached, though; it\u2019s thoroughly involved. The look of the film\u2019s sequestered small town is dingy and disgusting as all hell, but the cinematography (by the original\u2019s director of photography, Daniel Pearl) is beautiful and incredibly striking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rendering of the Texas town is essential to establishing its horror. Wide observant shots of the landscapes and mills that comprise it set us into this piercing feeling of abandonment. It makes us curious as to how any sort of society functions here. The color palette is industrial, the texture is finger-prickling, and everything feels decrepit and musty. In all its grime, the film is flooded with contrasty tangibility. It\u2019s simply, utterly gross.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the group finds themselves locked in the vise of bloodshed, there\u2019s nowhere to escape. The sheriff is seemingly incompetent \u2014 until we find out that he\u2019s a member of the Hewitt clan. There\u2019s a civilian-authority mistrust that is fostered by the town\u2019s disconnect. Tiny rural USA allows for self-governance to a shocking extent, and the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Texas Chainsaw Massacre <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">remake instills it to a deranged level. As the group cries to him about their friend\u2019s murder, his attention is exclusive to the roach in their ashtray. It\u2019d be hilarious if it wasn\u2019t so horrifying.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The film\u2019s tension is atmospherically sunken and inescapable. The characters\u2019 fight-or-flight impulses seem hapless: fleeing never feels like an option. Everyone seems to be in on the carnage, and their status as by-chance interlopers in this community doesn\u2019t have an exit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where the original film feels overtly goofy (namely, \u201cThe Hitchhiker\u201d character drives me insane), the remake <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">balances subtle, brewing evil with burgeoning brutality. The character relationships are more developed and the horror feels more helpless, so the film\u2019s capital of carnage \u2014 helmed by stunning visuals \u2014 feels more impactful.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1_A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street_2010\"><\/span>1. A Nightmare on Elm Street\u00a0(2010)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-358829 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/freddy-krueger-glove-in-bathtub.jpg\" alt=\"Freddy Krueger Glove In Bathtub slasher remakes\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/freddy-krueger-glove-in-bathtub.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/freddy-krueger-glove-in-bathtub-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/freddy-krueger-glove-in-bathtub-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/freddy-krueger-glove-in-bathtub-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trauma is a heavy hitter\u2026 obviously. It\u2019s not easy to portray with nuance, especially within a slasher film. However, the remake of <em>A Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em> does it well, fully committing to it in a way that the original does not.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Refresher: in the original, Freddy is retaliating against the parents by harming their children. In this film, the teens themselves suffered sexual abuse at the hands of Freddy (Jackie Earle Haley), and now he is targeting them for speaking up. This darker spin on the narrative allows for not just more thematic exploration, but a deeper, more inset horror.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The teens\u2019 repressed memories of their trauma bring a more visceral quality to the significance of their dreams. Dean\u2019s (Kellan Lutz) nightmares don\u2019t begin until he starts going to therapy. For everyone else, the curtain is slowly peeled back through the landscape of their dreams. Dreams are the spaces where our subconscious runs wild, and it\u2019s where each of the characters begins to unravel and discover the buried story of Freddy Kreuger.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even as they verbally deny the validity of their nightmares, they emotionally know them to be true. It becomes harder for them to keep the memories at bay. It\u2019s haunting. Dean\u2019s death scene is witnessed from a point-of-view outside of his dream. Where the original film portrayed the carnage manifesting from a phantom presence, this film shows Dean seemingly fighting against himself. With a knife in hand, he eventually succumbs and appears to kill himself. Bringing suicide to the table, the film is cataclysmically grounded by portraying the gruesomely real stakes at hand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In opposition to the original, Freddy\u2019s character has more direct interaction with the teens. He taunts them not simply with the threat of death, but with his own grip on their psyche, stating, \u201cYour memories are what fuel me.\u201d Freddy is no longer a simple supernatural villain but an embodiment of trauma. This makes the deaths more tragic, the horror more piercing, and the overall film more harrowing than its source material. The 2010 version of <em>A Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em> isn\u2019t just about constructing traps to cleverly beat the threat of nightmares but also diving deep into yourself to uncover and overcome your trauma.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remaking horror films, especially the cherished ones, is a tough sell to fanatics. The question is always \u201cwhy, though?\u201d Whether it\u2019s a remake, a reboot, a reimaging, etc., it\u2019s usually never needed. These new iterations can be only stylistically different from the originals or contribute new thematic content.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes they\u2019re overwhelmingly abhorred (Gus Van Sant\u2019s <strong><em>Psycho<\/em><\/strong>, anyone?) or widely well regarded (like 2013\u2019s spectacular remake, <strong><em>Evil Dead<\/em><\/strong>). There are no true criteria for what works and what doesn\u2019t; sometimes modernity just doesn\u2019t work for these narratives. 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