They took the win away from the first movie and, frankly, it makes me mad.

The worst thing the script, written by Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill, does is rely relentlessly on references to the Nightmare on Elm Street saga that end up looking more like imitations than homages. [Full review in Spanish]

Even if it doesn’t all quite work, this is a creepily inventive shocker that grows in mournful power as it moves along.

While not every new direction it takes works, the film is still a mostly gripping and unsettling affair.