On a bit of a marathon today...
Scarface. 7/10
Probably my favourite DePalma film, if only because it's the one where he spends the least time paying tribute to other people's movies. It's ironic that it took a remake for him to make his most purely DePalma-like film.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (Remake) (6/10)
Not that bad and definitely a lot better than it could have been. It was a good idea to play up the genuine scares. One of the things I never liked about the original was that in making Freddy so charismatic it sort of blunted the horror element, making him more like a Marvel villian than a child killer. The remake plays it far straighter so, while I ultimately prefer the original (just), I do think this version works fine in its own right and perhaps even better than the original as a pure horror film.