i have no problem with the odd joke at his victims expense, if the joke is actually funny and most importantly, something that would be funny to the supernatural form of a burned alive child molester. “how’s this for a wet dream”? that nearly made me cry with laughter because it sounds like something an evil dirty pervert would say in that situation. on the other end of the spectrum we have things like freddy and the nintendo powerglove, and many of the terrible one liners from the later films. i don’t think freddy should come across as anything less then evil. and evil can be funny. as opposed to goofy, goofy is hard to accept as evil.

write good material and freddy can be a little of both. i am excited as hell about the remake (though guarded about it as well). there is some good happening in the world of remade horror classics. but there has also been a lot of disappointment. lets hope a nightmare on elm street is one of the former. it’s pretty cool that people still care enough about this character a quarter of a decade after he first came slashing through theater screens to continue making films about him.

long live the fred heads:)

ShAPELING