It's already summer movie season for Real America. This Friday marks the first of two spring weekends when America will be offered film remakes that are unusually prescient for Hollywood fare. These films will be blockbusters and, soon enough, the media will be knee-deep in meaning-searching. You should be ready. First up is the release of the re-booted Nightmare on Elm Street, which, as you should already know, tells the horrifying tale of teens haunted by a beyond-the-grave Freddy Krueger. In the 1984 original, Krueger was never openly called a "sex offender" or a "pedophile," even though many understood this to be the case. While Slasher films have always spoken to teen sexuality (usually by punishing it), the original Elm Street didn't go much further than most. Freddy was more overtly sexually threatening than, say, Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees, but he never went beyond cackling a line like "I'm your new boyfriend." Unsurprisingly, that's all changed. READ MORE