With the news of another reboot to A Nightmare on Elm Street coming our way soon, many horror fans have had horrible memories of the 2010 remake come to mind – a movie that is universally hated by the community.
And someone else who doesn’t like the remake? The movie’s make-up artist Bart J. Mixon, who had also worked on A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master.
“Like most remakes or reboots, it is sort of a waste of time,” Mixon told iHorror. “I thought Jackie was a great choice for Freddy, and I like the fact that he towers over the children, but they are bigger than him as adults. But any scenes that are direct copies of what was done in the original just fail to improve in any way over the original. Maybe by the time Freddy is going to Hell and Jason is going into space it is time to start over, but try something a little different. At least the Friday remake combined the first three movies into one.”
Mixon also talks about the make-up process on the film, and attributes a lot of the movie’s failures in terms of capturing the “look” of Freddy Kruger on the visual effects department. Read the rest of the interview here.
Originally published August 13, 2015. Updated April 13, 2018.
