WES CRAVEN: Creator of the original NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET won’t see the remake
Wes Craven, the horror movie legend behind such genre classics as Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes, has said that he won’t be checking out the remake of his most famous creation- A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. The director, also known for kicking off the SCREAM horror franchise as well as a catalogue of other productions outside the horror genre, has stated to Moviehole.net that he has no interest in seeing the new remake of that incredible first Elm Street film once it hits the screen, saying “That’d be a tough one to re-see… If you move on from the films you’ve made – which I have tried always to move on – then it’s like, ‘That’s in the past. It’s had his life.’
Personally I can’t say I blame him. If you’d made something as perfect and genre-defining as A Nightmare on Elm Street, I can’t imagine you’d be too into watching some half-assed remake that has been made to cash in on hard work you did 25 years ago. That first film, and the third one, incidentally, are near=perfect pieces of genre cinema that it seems more than a little wrong to screw around with.
I swear, if they get Shia LaBeouf to be Freddy Krueger, I’ll scream, and not in a good way. Is Billy Bob Thornton still attached to this project?
