Freddy Found!

A few posts back, I moaned and groaned and complained about how Freddy Krueger could not be played by anyone other than Robert Englund and that I had my doubts about the upcoming Nightmare on Elm Street Remake. Quite some time has passed, casting is practically complete, and the movie is set to start filming later this month and now I can officially say that I'm pretty excited to see this now that I feel that they chose a pretty good guy to play Freddy. He probably won't be as charismatic, but he very well looks the part....scary.

The man they chose to play the new Freddy is none other than Jackie Earle Haley. Who the hell is that you ask? Your probably don't know him by name, but he played Rorschach (the dude with the ink blot mask) in Watchmen.


I think he totally looks the part...and yes, I chose those 2 pictures on purpose. Now we just have to see what he brings to the character. This Freddy will probably be more in line with the Freddy from the original movie. In that one, Freddy was actually scary but as the franchise went on, Freddy became more and more of a wise cracker than a horrifying figure saying things such as "Welcome to primetime bitch" right before he smashed a girl into a TV...a TV that was Freddy himself. He became a TV with antennas coming out of the top of his head. Or in Freddy vs. Jason when he says "Oh how sweet, dark meat" referring to Kelly Rowland's character, the only black character. That's not exactly scary.

Other than that, the rest of the cast is forming nicely with young actors such as Thomas Dekker (Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles), Kyle Gallner (I only know him from Smallville, he played the Flash in several episodes), Kellan Lutz (Twilight), and Rooney Mara as Nancy. Its really bothering me that I can't quite put my finger on where i've seen this girl before, but whatever.

Either way, I am dying to see whats gonna go down in this movie. 25+ years of technology advancements can only be a good thing. Then again, you can only make getting sucked into a water bed look so good.