Can you tell the difference at all in the dark there?

I like the original movies - even though they got progressively sillier - but honestly, having read a draft of the script of the new Nightmare on Elm Street I'm not expecting much.

The script was cliched, unimaginative and, worst of all, had virtually no visually original deaths in it. The best scenes and kills were literally ripped from the first movie.

A girl killed and slammed into the ceiling by invisible Freddy while her boyfriend watches? Check.

The boyfriend later killed in a jail cell by invisible Freddy? Check.

Freddy's hand coming out of Nancy's bath water? Check.

To be fair, there are a couple of things that the new script added which could be interesting. First, there's the concept of micronaps, as the tired brain shuts down for a few seconds at a time, causing the nightmare realm to be superimposed over our own.

Secondly - and more interestingly - there's the toying with the idea that Freddy may have been innocent of the crimes he was killed for, and that the children made it all up.

Sadly, that isn't explored in detail before it's dismissed on the discovery of a police file - which explicitly states that Freddy was molesting the children. I know that was pretty much a given in the originals, but I can't remember if it was explicitly stated?

And they didn't even have the decency to suck the Johnny Depp a-like into his bed and spray him all over the ceiling...