Let’s face the essential fact that Freddy Kruger is one of the most well-known cinematic pop culture icons EVER. As a matter of fact, the first film that ever saw, and it still gives me scares to this day, was the original Wes Craven classic. Now when word reached my ear that Platinum Dunes—Michael Bay’s production company—would be slated to develop and release the film under the New Line Studio’s banner, I was really upset. After a…

Look, I commend our American counterparts for attempting for making an anthology film about the day in the life of a New Yorker. My problem with it is that the film makers try so fucking hard to pander to the hip crowd--trying to be cool and cleaver for the sake of being cool and cleaver, which is annoying, really annoying.

One flaw that this film has is that none of the stories move beyond the confines of Manhattan, which is a true…