Perhaps to the producers of the Nightmare on Elm Street remake thought it Smelled Like Teen Murders, but they felt the best choice for a director was Samuel Bayer.
Granted this guy has had some directing experience, just not with feature films.
Music video veteran Samuel Bayer, perhaps best known for shooting Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” will direct a re-imagining of Wes Craven’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” which this year marks its 25th anniversary.
Unlike other reboots of classic horror franchises, which synthesize plot lines from several films, this one, insiders said, will feature a strong element of the first picture, in which Krueger began haunting teenagers’ dreams, attacking them violently in their subconscious in ways that resulted in their real-life deaths.
This is not the only horror that Platinum Dunes has on the batting order. A film called Fiasco Heights is also headed our way. And the director for that project? Samuel Bayer.
Did this guy win a high stakes game of Poker that Michael Bay was at? The media is painting him up as a music video director so I assume he is still working in that capacity, but when they want to illustrate work they know you have seen of his, the best they can do is name some music videos from the early 90s? Really? Nothing I might have seen since then? A check on IMDB reports that he has been keeping himself employed with other stuff they might have mentioned.
To see him cutting his teeth on other projects and climbing the ladder is respectable. But to remake a classic is already going to put him under harsh scrutiny, so I can only hope he turns out to be some hidden gem. Something like this can make or break him.
