of kids in the original is a mind fuck, but it still suggests that when he was a living, filthy child murderer (as Nancy’s drunken mother describes him), he did perverted things to them. However, the focus is on him in the present—a boogeyman that kills teenagers in their sleep. In the remake, Freddy’s whole identity is reliant on his past as a pedophile. It’s all spelled out for us, right down to the discovery of naked pictures of children in his secret room, Freddy telling Nancy how she smells different now and dabbling in some disgusting sexual foreplay with her on a bed. The subject of pedophilia is repulsive for sure, but the bottom line is, a burned pedophile (the new Freddy) just isn’t terrifying to peoplehas said that he titled the film as he did because most people know of an Elm Street in their town, which helps him in bringing the nightmare into modest suburbia so we all feel vulnerable. You truly feel like you’re in a small, close knit town: Nancy can walk to and from school just as easily as carpool with friends; she can communicate with Glenn simply by looking across the street from her bedroom window to his bedroom window; the police station where Nancy’s dad works is only walking distance from her home. Hell, the town is loaded with rich green lawns and trees, blue skies, and bright sunlight. The remake fails to capture the intimacy of the community or demonstrate the fracturing of a suburban utopia,