Jackie Earle Haley (aka Rorschach from Watchmen) will fill some very big shoes and a very iconic red and green jumper in music vid-cum-feature director Samuel Bayer’s upcoming remake of Wes Craven’s one-two-you-know-who’s-coming-for-you horror classic A Nightmare on Elm Street. Haley will be the first actor to play gnarly dream invader Freddy Krueger other than vet Robert Englund, who has donned the Krueger garb, scissor hands and grisly makeup in eight Nightmare on Elm Street flicks (from 1984 to 2003) as well as a TV spinoff. I wonder what he thinks of the remake and whether he’s happy to finally hang up his shingle. One assumes he had no choice.
The trailer (watch it below) begins with Haley/Krueger sprinting down darkened industrial-looking streets as carloads of people chase him into a decrepit looking building. “What-do-you-think-I-did-I-didn’t-do-anything!” he hollers as one of his assailers throws a lit petrol can into the building; fires surround him as he takes off his jacket, revealing that iconic stripy jumper. When the trailer cuts away from the fires – this is obviously the scene, for those not in the know, in which Krueger transforms from a man to a ghoul – an even scarier image flashes onto the screen: blood red text reading ‘from producer Michael Bay.’ In other words, there’s gonna be at least a couple of almighty explosions.
A Nightmare on Elm Street will arrive in cinemas sometime next year.
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I am worried about the Michael Bay credit as the first movie was such a success because the onlyt noticeable special fx was the bed that Johnny Depp went in and too much blood(never!). Horror movies at the time were either mad max inspired action flicks or italian zombie gore flicks. Nightmare had a great villian, a great twist(dont sleep) and a great back story. I felt the franchise started to fall when the nightmare part was forgotten and Freddy could attack anytime.