"Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)" - Steve Jablonsky

Nightmare on
Elm Street (2010)

Composer: Steve Jablonsky

Release date: 7 May, 2010

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All About Soundtracks Review: In the fashion of rebooting classic franchises, Nightmare on Elm Street is another failure. One of those movies that are a shame to Hollywood, it deserved precisly a score that would be a shame to film music. Being the movie produced by Micheal Bay, it was expected that Steve Jablonsky would be hired to score it. And so he was.
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It's sure that the film doesn't deserve much, but still this is a really underachieving score. Two thirds of the score are filled with slow-paced, almost unmelodic blend of electronic noise and little string orchestra. The theme for the main villain, Freddy, it's nothing special. It sometimes sounds hypnothic in orchestration, that's actually a relief from the rest of the noise.
But the greatest relief from this unscary bore is the third part of the album. The strings orchestra has a greater role that makes for the least unpleasant tracks (Where the Monster Lives, Wake Me Up), and there are some tracks with action that break a bit with the slow-pace (It's Not In Here).
The last two tracks are the most curious stuff on this score. One More Nap features electric guitar and drums, for what plays like a rock version of the main title, that doesn't feel too much unrelated to the rest of the music, despite being unnecessary.
The album ends with Jump Rope, a 20-second recording of Freddy's song from the movie.
Let's try to forgive another Jablonsky underachievement, because, once again, the music is as good as the movie: not good at all.
Everything here feels tired, over-used, unfresh. Everything sounds familar. Actually, familiarly bad.
This is a 50-minute long nightmare.

Ups: perfect for fans of the movie and/or athmospheric horror music.

Downs: mostly slow-paced, almost absent of melody, with nothing new, memorable or remarkable to the business of horror scores.

Noteworthy tracks: none.

Score note: 1/10


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