Movies That Should Have Been Epic

[A Theist]

Yeah, I've not seen the Elm Street 'reboot' (such a pretentious word for remake) since what I have seen of it, trailers and photos and whatnot, were decidedly underwhelming. I thought Haley almost had the right sort of face to carry it off but how can you beat a class act like Robert Englund? (Incidentally, when I first saw an ELm Street film, Freddy's Revenge for the record, I had troulble seeing Englund as anything other than Willy from V; now it's the other way round). I don't think it's too controversial to say that the Elm Street franchise went careering off the rails as it went on, probably way past its welcome, but the original concept stands up there with classic movie monsters such as Dracula, Adam (the Frankenstein Monster) and the Mummy.

I remember Robert Englund on V. I enjoyed that series. It's still shown from time to time in reruns on the Sci Fi channel. I agree with you. The original Nightmare on Elm Street is a horror flick that rates among the classics. But as you pointed out the sequels didn't match up anywhere close to the original. Although, 'Dream Warriors', the third in the series, wasn't too bad.

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One that I thought was pretty interesting for a zombie movie was 'Dod Sno', or 'Dead Snow'. Has anyone else seen it? Seems it may be growing to a cult classic.