Fresh on the heels of our upcoming remake/reboot/bootmagining episode comes a spate of news, photos, and information for the latest revisit to a horror franchise, A Nightmare on Elm Street. As I have previously said, I hold the entire Nightmare series very highly regarded, weak parts and all from my nostalgic recollection of them.

My fear though was and still remains to be that the re-whatever will end up being underwhelming like Friday the 13th, also remade by the same production company Platinum Dunes. It now appears that my fears are founded in reality. Ain’t It Cool News has a spoiler-filled review that pretty much eviscerates the film. In fact, in looking at the released production photos, it seems that the overall concept of the film has remained intact, with scenes looking almost identical to the original. Now, there is more of an origin story for Freddy which I am happy about but if the movie ends up destroying any hopes I had of a new and goodNightmare movie in my lifetime, I could have just stuck with the episode of Freddy’s Nightmares instead.

So, it might be a little too late as it is set to premiere April 30 but I hope that any flaws of the movie can be addressed and corrected. Regardless though, I will be seeing the movie on opening day despite any negative reviews I read in hopes that everyone else is just wrong. God, I hope everyone is wrong.