Movie-Holic

As we get closer to the release of the newest remake of a Hollywood classic, it looks like it just might be a good one. At the first news that a Nightmare on Elm Street as going to be remade I wasn’t all that excited. It just wasn’t one of my favorites. Then the news broke that Jackie Earle Haley (The Watchmen) was going to play Freddy Krueger in it, I got a little excited.

However, with the newest bit of information, I just might have to see this one. MTV Movies Blog has an interview with Haley where he says, “You know, I think my Freddy is just a bit more serious,”. Haley told this MTV’s Vanessa White Wolf during an on-set interview.

Haley also goes on to say, “It’s really important for us, as we’re re-envisioning this, that there’s a good, strong sense of new and fresh but there’s still some recognizability,” Haley said of the adaptation’s faithfulness. “I think a lot of what was in that first movie is also in this movie, in terms of the structure of it and how it plays out.”

As I see it now, this means that instead of the slapstick horror comedy that Robert Englund brough as Freddy Krueger, Haley is going to make it a true boogeyman type of horror. Someone to be really scare of instead of laugh at. In another quote, “We delve into Freddy’s background a little bit more,” Haley explained. “It’s a very similar background to what we know about him, but… I think it’s going to be a unique kind of homage to Wes’s original film.”

I think I can get into this movie.

Nightmare on Elm Street Remake Trailer