NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET reboot trailer online

As played out as Freddy Krueger and the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise had become, I don't think many horror fans were thrilled at the prospect of a reboot that replaced Robert Englund with a new actor as Freddy. The whole idea just seems kind of wrong, frankly. I mean, Englund has been playing Freddy since the Reagan era! He's earned that role. And it's not like he's aged out of it or something, he can still give good Fred. (That's one of the perks of playing a character that requires elaborate special effects makeup; you could be 26 or 66 under all that rubber, and nobody would know the difference.)

But this new reboot trailer is genuinely creepy, and there's no denying that Jackie Earl Haley is an inspired choice for Freddy. (Although he kind of seems to be getting typecast playing child molesters, and that's something he really might want to discuss with his agent.)

The little glimpse we get of the new Freddy makeup makes me curious to see more, at the same time that I really don't want to see more.



Got a tip for Monsters and Rockets? Want to contribute to the site? Send us an email.