instead relying heavily on the cloak of night and jumping from one disjointed location to another: a drug store, the diner, Nancy’s house, the school.

Craven further knocks down the walls of security through his nightmare sequences. The kids are not even safe in their bedrooms, classrooms, or backyards—take into account the subtleties of Tina being frightened by a rogue garbage can cover and then crashing onto an outdoor table in her yard and pulling the tablecloth over her head to escape Freddy only to have him crawl underneath there with her. Or Nancy waking to find she has dragged pieces of rose trellis from her own front yard out of her dream and into her bed. There are no such domestic details in the remake. Nancy even findsover-the-counter “stay-awake” pills in her bathroom medicine cabinet in the original, while in 2010, she has to stop at a pharmacist so her friend can refill a sleep-deprivation prescription while she’s in the drugstore aisles discovering she can pull things out of her daydreams.

Even when Nancy goes after Freddy for the last time, in the original she’s tucked away in her own bed with her hair cascading over her own pillow, a pot of coffee on the nightstand beside her bed to keep her awake. In the remake, Nancy is lying on the disgusting, filthy bed in Freddy’s secret room where she was molested when it’s time to fall asleep and bring him into her world. His dirty quarters are her world? And forget coffee. Nancy needs to