Comments on: No Robert Englund For Nightmare Remake

By: hojo

hojo — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:52:36 +0000

Instead of a remake, go back to when it all began.

By: hojo

hojo — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:19:40 +0000

Instead of a remake, go back to the beginning. Freddy is alive, and a very loving father to 3 girls of his own. All 3 go missing then later turn up dead. The 3 little darlings were torn to shreds. Freddy is absolutely destroyed by it all and begins to act strange. He vows revenge and makes a glove with blades to use on his daughters killer, if ever the fiend is found. Tragically, other little girls turn up dead in the same fashion of Freddy’s 3. Suspicion turns toward Freddy, and he is arrested, tried, and released. Convinced he is guilty, the parents of the victims plot to get their own justice. It’s now Christmas eve. Freddy donned in a red and green Christmas sweater stands before the graves of his girls and places gifts before the 3 stones. Suddenly! the silence is broken with the screeching of tires. An angry mob emerges from the disarray of cars and a foot chase begins. It ends at the boiler room where to defend himself, Freddy puts on the glove. Surrounded by the angry mob, he swears his innocence, but they don’t care. They dash gasoline all over him, then light him up. Fully aflame and screaming in pain he falls to the ground dead. Soon after, the true killer is caught, but none of the mob are ever charged. NOW! THE NIGHTMARE BEGINS!!!!! A home video plays of Freddy’s 3 jumping rope, and as the screen fades to black Freddy’s laugh echoes throughout the theater. This treatment needs a few fill ins and touch ups, but wouldn’t this make a better picture?

By: robert

robert — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:40:31 +0000

The only reason that they keep doing remakes is that they coudn’t come up with a new movie if their lives depended on it!!!

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:09:52 +0000

Making a new Nightmare on elm street without Robert Englund is completely wrong. If he is not going to be in the movie don’t make it please!!!

By: justin

justin — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:08:24 +0000

hey everyone look i think maybe we should give this remake a chance i mean we are in a new era ive been watching nightmare on elm streets sinse i was 2 yrs old.. and i agree that there will never be a as good freddy kruger as the best robert england but i can say that the texas chainsaw massacare remake was good,as well as the hills have eyes,and halloween ….they havn’t made a nightmare on elm street with just freddy sinse wes cravens new nightmare which was a damn good one i really enjoyed the plot to it… but evil never dies,and you can never kill off freddy because there will always be freddy fans as long as we live thanks and much love j.

By: M

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:18:04 +0000

They need Robert Englund back!
With Jason Voorhees it doesn’t matter who the actor is (he walks like frankensein (no acting required) , he doesn’t speak (no acting required) and he doesn’t have a face (NO FACE REQUIRED!!)). The same with Michael Myers! Freddy’s not just another killing machine wearing a mask! He has a demented personality, a way of doing things, he likes to play with his victims, but most of all he calls teenage girls “Bitch!” in such a way he makes it seem pervy… So they need to have Englund play it!!!!!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:08:20 +0000

Robert Englund is the man! Period. Use him! Number 1: He’s been Freddy for 20 years; Number 2: He’s a classical trained stage actor…and, well, that’s just cool as sh*t in my opinion.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:20:32 +0000

Hmmm…whatever would inspire long time fans of this franchise to think this remake is going to suck?

Lets see…

The Hills Have Eyes – remade…and it sucked.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre – remade…and it sucked.
Halloween – remade…and it sucked.
Prom Night – remade…and it sucked.
Black Christmas – remade…and it sucked.
The Omen – remade…and it sucked.
Amityville Horror – remade…and it sucked.
The Fog – remade…and it sucked.
Dawn of the Dead – remade…and it sucked.
The Hitcher – remade…and it sucked.
House on Haunted Hill – remade…and it sucked.
The Haunting – remade…and it sucked.
Psycho – remade…and it sucked.

Patinum Dunes pops up more than once on that shitlist.
Remakes are 100% about a bottom line from the writing on up. All movies end up that way but at a good stories heart there is usually some inspiration and art.

There is no Freddy without Robert Englund. Michael Myers had almost ten different people play him because he didn’t speak. It was all about his gate. Same goes with Jason. Freddy is a character that was created just as much through Robert Englund’s superb acting as it was by Wes Craven.

Any other actor will either have to rip him off or go in a completely different direction. Catch 22. If they rip him off…they should have just used him. If they deviate…its not Freddy or Nightmare.

I used to have an open mind about horror remakes until damn near every one sucked.

Save your ten bucks and go buy the original if you’re interested.

By: Allie

Allie — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:47:29 +0000

Hate to say this, but Englund himself was on G4’s “Attack of the Show”. He’s totally for the remake, so i’m on his side. Yes it’s sad that he isn’t going to be freddy, but he stated that he likes the idea because now with CGI they can do a lot more things they couldn’t before.

No one can replace Englund as Freddy, but we should at least have an open mind about it.

By: sam

sam — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:29:38 +0000

were going on 25 years with Englund as Freddy. This is a disgrace to myself, horror fans, Wes Craven, and Robert Englund. The only way Freddy will die is taking Robert out of the movies…. he is Freddy.

RIP Freddy Krueger. (1984-2008)

Dont forget about Ash now, he’s needing a remake, how about you get that Shiloh kid from Transfomers.

Screw hollywood.