I love the first Scream movie. The second one was mediocre, and the third was awful. But part of me wanted to believe that this was done deliberately as one more nod to the horror genre – that generally speaking, a franchise gets shitty after you go beyond three movies. I wonder if putting out a new instalment 10 years after the last one is part of that? Or if they are getting in on the latest slasher resurgence.

Either way, I’m even less interested to see it than I normally would due to the shitty teaser poster.

The Woman Eater (1958) d. Charles Saunders

Are you psyched? Because I’ve got half a chub over this new Nightmare on Elm St. with Jackie Earle Haley. Obviously Scott Mendelson from the Huffington post doesn’t have the same south of the border sensation and hasn’t seen the Friday the 13th remake. Because if that is any indication Michael Bay/Samuel Bayer’s re-imagining of ANOES then there will probably be cherry-picked elements from a few of the past Nightmares involved in this film (Brecken Meyer Power Glove not included). Somewhat indicated in the trailer, I’m guessing a little lady is going to be painting the walls and ceiling arterial red on Elm St. It’s too bad they don’t make as many waterbeds as they used to in the 80′s.

I will say the underbite speech impediment is a bit odd as well as the trailer not hinting at any of Krueger’s Pun-ishingly dark ribs at his victims. This could be a dark, straight-faced Nightmare. For this fan’s sake…hopefully not all serious.

What do YOU think?

Thanks to @Kingmob6 for reminding me to post this!

I have to say, they’re pretty boring posters. Visually, they’re just really generic and don’t evoke the property as starkly as I’d like, but at least Snake-Eyes looks pretty much like he should.