A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
This one is less about a film that may work better as a game, and more about my yearning desire to get a Nightmare On Elm Street game. Michael Myers (sort of) got his own game and everyone’s favorite stab-happy goalie will soon get his, so what’s the hold up?
This is a series that mixes horror, humor and copious amounts of cheesy one-liners. Unlike his more silent and serious serial killer cousins, whose brains understand little more than “stab this thing until it stops moving,” Freddy will kill you dead, then proceed to do a little jig on your corpse before winking knowingly at the camera.
I realize I haven’t really given a good reason as to how this series would work as a video game, but I don’t think I need to. If I absolutely have to, how about this: the last time Freddy appeared in a video game, it was in Mortal Kombat 9. That was a cool idea, except for the fact that it was Jackie Earle Haley’s version of Freddy, rather than the original, superior Robert Englund version.
As a fan of the genre, and, I assume, the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise, are you really okay with that?
