found out the other day that nightmare on elm street and true grit are going to be remade. WHY? i ask why cant hollywood come up with anything original these days. well now that i know this i am never stepping foot in a movie theater again. i dont care about this crap of new generations or whatever. how about just release the originals that would work wouldnt it? hollywood is getting lame and the remakes even more lameless. as much as i enjoyed movies i wont any more. so u can keep robocop and predator and what not ill rent the original versions of those and have more fun!!!

did you know that freddy kruger was real in real life. a friend of mine way before she was born, her parents had lived in cal. where the killing were happening, and in one of the scenes where it shows the families burning freddy alive. that is actually how he really died..

Shhhhh! No talking after lights out.Sorry kids but I don't believe in fairy tales.

Sorry, not buying that one. Freddy Krueger was named after a childhood bully of Wes Craven's. The burned look came from a homeless man from Craven's hometown. Some of the other incidents portrayed in the film were based off of articles Craven read involving teens in Cambodia.

Besides, if these killings really happened in California and Craven based the film on it- New Line would have been all over it to promote the film, "Based On A True Story"- no horror film would turn down that opportunity.

Exactly & thx! 4 saving me a bunch of typing.Godspeed!Cy

Yeah. Craven DID get some inspiration when he did the whole "Nightmare on Elm Street" thing, but it WAS NOT from a real-life event!

Anywhoo- the reason why corporate Hollywood keeps remaking movie after movie is because you have a bunch of talentless suits running things into the ground. They wouldn't know what makes a "GOOD" movie if it reared up and bit them in the face.

They're all about making as much profit (and skimming as money they can) as is humanly possible, and NOT about actually entertaining the public. Of course, this is to be expected as most of those up in corporate Hollywood have actually come from the dregs of Wall Street.

It's a well-known fact that a number of Junk-Bond king Michael Millken's crooked associates have migrated their way into the film business, where they can steal just as much as they did in the NYSE... only with nowhere NEAR the oversight. In short, it's ALL about the greed and the all-important "golden parachute" with those types.

But I digress- the reason why remakes keep being released is because it's lazy film-making. After all... why spend the time and energy on an ORIGINAL property that might or might NOT be a success when you can keep rehashing the same ol' same ol'? After all... you already own the rights to the IP... the storyline's already pretty much set up... and you can even hire the actors in the original films to do cameo performances, provided they're still alive, that is.

It's just an easy way to take an easy way out. It's auto-pilot film-making at its worst.

And BTW- Hollywood has been sucking quite hard at making movies for at least the last decade, and probably longer than that.

Kevin Kostner, Paris Hilton. Be seeing you.

Freddy Krueger was a true story. The first two Nightmare on Elms Street movies was based upon actual events

In Wes Craven's mind, that is. He did an awful lot of drugs back in the day, you know.

That would definitely explain The Hills Have Eyes 2(1984), especially giving the dog the flashback scenes