Googled "A Nightmare on Elm Street". Quoted from wikipedia entry.A Nightmare on Elm Street was initially met with relatively mixed critical reviews but went on to make a significant impact on the horror genre, spawning a franchise consisting of a line of sequels, a television series, a remake, and various other works of imitation.The film is credited with carrying on many clichés found in low-budget horror films of the 1980s and 1990s, originating in John Carpenter's 1978 horror film Halloween, including the morality play that revolves around sexual promiscuity in teenagers resulting in their eventual (usually graphic) death, leading to the term "slasher film".   See 4 other replies

Every time a new generation comes along and sees a rehash of the same movies they saw when they were kids we get the same complaints:OMG Hollywood can't generate new material movies quality sucks so NOT COOL man so NOT COOLAdder, movies have had reboots and sequels and spin-offs for as long as movies have been created.But on a related note, the model for generating revenue from movies is much different today than it was 50 years ago (way before the 80's, relative to the movie industry life). Box office success used to be huge when 90% of the population attended movies regularly. Now a much smaller percentage attends movies, and the high price of movie tickets doesn't compensate. These days, TV spots after the movies leave theaters is the main way movies make money.I really have no idea why you picked a Horror movie to fight this battle. Movies like this fit so perfectly into a formula one can almost set a watch to the timing of the screams and loud noises. Furthermore, there have already been piles of spin-offs of this particular movie, they didn't come just recently, and this movie wasn't particularity original when it came out.   See 4 other replies

i used to be okay with original Elm Street, but this one i hate it   See 4 other replies