No. No. No. NO. NO. NO!!!!

The original Nightmare STILL holds up. I still can't watch his arms stretch out in the alleyway without feeling something really disturbing-in-a-primal way. Depp's death scene is fantastic, and Tina's body NAILING her boyfriend into the wall as it gets spun around is sickening.

I can't deal with this. I really can't. New Freddy will be crazy CGI and Thornton hamming it up like Freddy from the sequels, when Freddy from the first movie said very little throughout the movie.

BAD, BAD, BAD IDEA.

And I don't know how anyone can say the new Chainsaw is ANYTHING even CLOSE to the horror of the original. The new one is just a rehash of the same crap Hollywood's thrown at us since Scream changed the definition of the genre.

Seriously, I want to cry. Michael Bay raped my childhood with Transformers, and Billy Bob Thornton is going to skull-$#^% it.

*bangs head against wall*

ETA: I just heard they're also remaking Candyman. Except Tony Todd's character will now be WHITE. No, I'm not kidding.

I SO want to marry this post

Wesley Strick, writer of films such as Cape Fear and Arachnophobia, is set to write the upcoming re-boot of Nightmare on Elm Street. The new film will apparently retain the original's high school setting, but delve deeper into the psychology of the razor-gloved serial killer Freddy Krueger.

The plan is to get the film out in theaters in 2009.

Credit: Variety