So The New Freddy Krueger Looks Pretty On the Outside

The first two pictures of the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' remake have been released to the hungry public, and I've got to say that even though my stomach feels pretty satisfied, I wouldn't mind feeling utterly full to the point of puking.



Okay, first of all, in case you don't know, the guy playing Freddy this time around is not the aging-and-still-awesome Robert Englund, but Jackie Earle Haley. Since Haley did such an awesome job as Rorschach in 'Watchmen,' I'm actually fairly optimistic about this remake, at least about the performance of Freddy. I can see Haley being the right kind of crazy, and because he's such a small dude, it might be even creepier to have his tiny frame wrapping around all the corners the industrial rooms that kids seem to dream about.

But, considering how much I didn't like the 'Halloween' remake, how disappointing the 'Texas Chainsaw' remake was, and how comprehensibly shitty the 'Friday the 13th' remake was, it's kind of hard to have much hope for the new Freddy. Also, I have to consider that the director's only previous accomplishments have been music videos for sweet bands like Green Day, Blink, The Offspring, and Poison. And Michael Bay is producing it. And one of the co-writers has never written anything before, ever. But it's okay, because the other writer was one of three writers for the 'Doom' movie. Oh wait, no, yeah, this movie's probably fucked.

But still, here's another cool picture. We'll have that at least.