When it comes to horror films, I'm very much a purist. I am a firm believer in the old adage, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

That applies here.

The first time I saw "A Nightmare On Elm Street", it was 1986. My parents had left me with a baby sitter for the night, and she was watching the movie on VHS. (I guess it had just come out on video or something.) I was three years old, and that movie scared the living hell out of me. I slept with my closet light on every night until I was seventeen years old.

Freddy was my boogeyman. He lurked in shadows and under the bed. I had horrible nightmares about him, yet I couldn't stop watching the films. "A Nightmare on Elm Street" became as much a beloved part of my childhood as Barbie dolls and New Kids on the Block.

Imagine my shock when I found out about the remake.

Robert Englund IS Freddy Krueger. His body language, facial expressions, terrible puns all helped to shape the persona of this quintessential boogeyman.

Although I loved him as Rorschach and got the creeps from him as the pedophile in Little Children, I fear that Jackie Earle Haley won't bring enough to the table in the remake to a) make Freddy his own and b) keep him true to the form that we die-hard Freddy fans have known, loved and feared for the past twenty-five years.

When I originally caught wind of the NOES re-boot, I was adamant that I would not go to see it, and I encouraged other friends of mine to boycott the film. To me, Robert Englund is, and always will be Freddy Krueger.

I've changed my mind, however. My curiosity is piqued by what the "new Freddy" will look like, and I'm willing to see what Haley can do. So, I'm gonna go see this re-vamped version. I can only hope that, lacking originality as it does, it will at least be a sufficient homage to a character that has frightened the living daylights out of me for the past twenty three years.

The original is my all time favorite movie in the world, and I've never been repulsive to remakes, but I really am disappointed they are remaking this one. Expensive advertising, like the one sheet above, or the staged pictures can all look good and awesome and cool, but it's not going to govern whether the movie is good or pathetically lame, cliché, and down-right terrible from story to characters. Don't get me wrong, I really want them to prove me 110% wrong, but they did the exact same the thing with Friday the 13th with advertising and such and the movie turned out to be a complete failure, the characters all seemed to be expendable, predictable, and thinner than cardboard -- they had absolutely nothing to them and I could care less which one was picked off next. It was basically another sequel with a new bunch of kids that are slaughtered. If it is a REMAKE of an ORIGINAL movie then the remake actually has to be original -- and I'm sad to say it wasn't in the least. Which leads me to say that the real main problem with remakes is that people pick up the idea because they know: # 1? It makes money (proved time and time again it sells to remake a classic, whether they deny it or not it's the MONEY!), second is it's the perfect scape goat for upcoming directors, actors, etc to have their name known and gain extra fame through a well-known name, in this case NOES, and lastly and most importantly is with the knowledge of all this above, the select people behind these remakes don't spend their time wisely on key elements that made the originals ACTUALLY good! They spend their time on the ONLY thing they know: the iconic character that made it famous, the killer. When they do this they ignore character development, and key storytelling elements that are absolutely essential to making a good film (but it doesn't matter to them, it makes the $$$ either way) and us unintelligent fans buy into the whole idea and flock to the theaters anyway (even though truthfully I will also probably go see it in theaters just because it's my favorite film). I have even more confirmed faith that the film will disappoint because we all have past proof of several terrible remakes before this one (all under the belt of the same ones in charge of the NOES remake), otherwise I wouldn't be so quick to judge. The film is already wrapped up so I know that nothing is going to be undone what already is done. I just want everyone to open their eyes and not be so brainwashed by the same filth that drew us in time and time before! Message to those involved in my favorite movie remake: PROVE ME WRONG PLEASE!

the new freddy krueger glove look bad and the original freddy krueger glove from the original a nightmare
on elm street look better because the new freddy krueger glove has a bad design to it.

SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dude scares the #*!&$( out of me already :)

Awesome!!!! I'm glad theye didn't make him look like a pussy, He actually look's pretty creepy. I really hope this remake's good, not like the my bloody valentine remake(wich sucked)