Monday, April 5, 2010

April, Spring, Elm Street.

So I've slacked off hard the last few weeks. Only updating with stuff i did for school. That's super lame, and I'm going to try to stop doing that.

Anyhoo, Sarah (my future wife) is pretty excited about a certain burn victim who is getting a makeover this month. No, it's not a new special episode of Maury, its the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street!
Yeah, I know what most jaded horror fans are muttering under their breathe about this one, and I'm right there with ya. No Robert Englund, Micheal Bay is involved, and with the last year's of stinkers (H2? bummer) people have reason to be wary of this re-vamp of a classic.

I'm still trying to be cautiously optimistic, not only because Sarah is so excited about it, (I'm trying this new thing where I don't always shit on her parade) but also because there is at least one example of a Micheal Bay produced remake that didn't annoy the fuck out of me. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, though flawed and lacking the intensity of the original, was still a fun movie. Granted I was high, and I saw it for free, and that was around 7 years ago, so my memory is fuzzy on how good it really was. Still, maybe Rorschach's Freddy will be really cool. His make up looks like a genuine burn victim, so that's pretty creepy.

Anyway, the point of this post was to introduce the new feature around these parts for the month of April.

Me and Sarah are going to watch every Nightmare on Elm Street movie this month before we go see the remake. And I'm going to write about every single one, and try to register her reaction as well. I do that in the interest of getting someones genuine first reaction to these movies, since I've seen each one at least twice, and the first one is pretty deeply ingrained into my brain. We got through about half of the second one tonight before she kicked me out so she could get some sleep. God damn that movie sucks, but in such a watchable way.

ANNYYYWayyy, look forward to the first review sometime this week, and more to follow. And when it's all done I'll rank them in order from worst to best. And then a review of the remake!And Sarah's going to wear this costume all month till the movie comes out! Fuckin 'Eh bro!