Samuel Bayer
Samuel Bayer has revealed that he wanted to make Freddy Krueger scary again.
Bayer is making his directorial feature film debut this week with a remake of Wes Craven's classic A Nightmare On Elm Street.
And Bayer admits that he wanted to put the fear back in Freddy Krueger.
Speaking to Dark Horizons the director said: "I think creatively, franchises need to be reinvented. Freddy had become a bit jokey, a vaudevillian. I don’t know how much he scared people anymore..
"I want to scare a new generation of people with this movie. I want Freddy Krueger to be what I feel Wes Craven intended him to be, which is a real boogeyman, someone who can murder you and hurt you - and it isn’t a big joke when you die.
"There’s elements of Krueger that we said we would never change, the striped sweater, the fedora, the glove, because that’s the cape and utility belt on Batman, you can’t change that stuff. (Freddy’s face) was the one place I really thought we could modernize this movie."
The movie has already topped the U.S. box office and Jackie Earle Haley has signed on for more than one movie so possible sequels could be in the pipeline.
A Nightmare on Elm Street is released 7th May.