I no, I don't hate him! (I was being a bit overdramatic, heh!) I do think he's extremely smart, charming, mind-bogglingly talented and well spoken, but I do feel with a couple of the specials I've watched about horror, that I see John Carpenter repenting for his treatment of women (and mostly rightly so), and George Romero repenting (truly unnecessarily, because he does women the best) about his treatment of women, whereas Wes Craven seems to not only get a pass on it, but be allowed to talk about the horrid, disgusting things he's done to women like it's something revolutionary. I just steer clear of stuff like Last House on the Left and some portions of The Hills Have Eyes.
It's hard to explain my feelings on the subject and I feel like I botched it above if I made you feel guilty about talking about him to me because, geez, obviously the guy's a genius and I do like him personally. I just wish his idea of edgy didn't equal rape. But that has less to do with his movies than the way people talk about him. Shrug.
Like Carpenter though he's just kind of lost it, hasn't he? I can't remember the last good movie he made, which is a thing of sadness because, despite people blowing out their asses about the alleged "Splat Pack" (and I have worse things to say about them, trust me, heh! Eli Roth is my nemesis! Even though he doesn't even know I exist and wouldn't really care! xP) and all, there really aren't people on their level working in horror anymore.
The original NoES is a classic and still unnerves me in ways I cannot begin to describe; as you say, Freddy hadn't begun to play it for laughs yet and everything about him--the acting, the lighting, the make-up--was terrifying (I didn't sleep for weeks after I was subjected to it at a slumber party!) When I heard about the remake, I cringed, because I truly have respect for Robert Englund, no matter how much he began to camp it up, but Jackie Earle Haley is... such an incredible actor! And it has such a good young cast as well!
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It's hard to explain my feelings on the subject and I feel like I botched it above if I made you feel guilty about talking about him to me because, geez, obviously the guy's a genius and I do like him personally. I just wish his idea of edgy didn't equal rape. But that has less to do with his movies than the way people talk about him. Shrug.
Like Carpenter though he's just kind of lost it, hasn't he? I can't remember the last good movie he made, which is a thing of sadness because, despite people blowing out their asses about the alleged "Splat Pack" (and I have worse things to say about them, trust me, heh! Eli Roth is my nemesis! Even though he doesn't even know I exist and wouldn't really care! xP) and all, there really aren't people on their level working in horror anymore.
The original NoES is a classic and still unnerves me in ways I cannot begin to describe; as you say, Freddy hadn't begun to play it for laughs yet and everything about him--the acting, the lighting, the make-up--was terrifying (I didn't sleep for weeks after I was subjected to it at a slumber party!) When I heard about the remake, I cringed, because I truly have respect for Robert Englund, no matter how much he began to camp it up, but Jackie Earle Haley is... such an incredible actor! And it has such a good young cast as well!