A Nightmare on Elm Street Prequel is on the way.


http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/index.php?Show=379

-Zavier

This is the only addition to the franchise that would make any sense whatsoever, you know?  The only missing piece that is worth telling.

This could be so, so good...dang, I sure hope they don't screw it up.

And I hope they start at the very beginning, at the asylum, the night when "the bastard son of (how many was it again?) maniacs" was first conceived.

I couldn't check the link  because I'm at work and it was blocked.  

This would only work if Robert Englund is brought in to play Freddie.  It would be interesting to see how Freddy is portrayed as an 'ordinary' killer.


Phil

Robert Englund does appear to be cahoots with the plan. I've read a couple of fan fiction versions of what this could be. I sure hope the finished product is at least that good.

A prequel? Please, dear God, make the senseless se/prequels stop! How many of the Elm Streets were made anyway? It's a bad sign when people lose count...

Also, let's not forget that Freddy Krueger (sp?) is supposed to be a child molester/murderer - the only reason he was killing 'teenagers' in the first movie was because they were the grown up kids of the people that killed him...

If this was not done 'very' carefully in the extreme then it would be a big mistake and would certinly rankle a few people... If they try to portray this kiddy-killer as the wise-cracking anti-hero of the later movies then this is a car wreck waiting to happen...

I agree with Roger and I really cant see this being any where near as good as the first Nightmare film was which would make a prequal pointless. Everyone who has seen the films know what happened anyway and to make a film about it would be somewhat stripping Freddy of any mystique that surrounds him.

If the film is in the hands of Wes Craven and he is in charge of the whole thing, then I would say it has a fair chance. If that were the case, I might even look forward to it.

But otherwise, Id expect a gore splattered horror aimed for teens which is about a child molester being the hero of the film.

Quoted from Scoob Id expect a gore splattered horror aimed for teens which is about a child molester being the hero of the film.

... which would be like trying to slip witty one-liners and audience winks into 'The Woodsman!'

I agree that if an on-form Craven were behind it, it 'might' stand a chance... He invented and understood the character - in the first movie Freddy was most certainly not an anti-hero, he was a genuinely scary and unpleasant character to be reviled.

Unless this is a serious movie in tone and not a 'crowd pleaser' then this is going to suck!