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May 8, 2010

Family-Faith Film Review: Nightmare on Elm Street
By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting

A Nightmare on Elm Street—Crazed killer Freddy Krueger (now played by Jackie Earle Haley) and his fatal fingers return to prey on the dreams — and real lives — of a new generation of small-town teens (including Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Katie Cassidy and Kellan Lutz). Veteran music video director Samuel Bayer’s unwelcome reboot of the 1980s slasher franchise — his feature debut — relies on the tried and trite recipe of sending interchangeable insomniacs to a gory doom. Intense bloody violence; gruesome imagery; a pedophilia theme; an implied nonmarital relationship; a couple uses of profanity; at least a dozen instances of the F-word; and some crude language.  O — morally offensive. (R) 2010
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