A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 film) when he was not consulted on the project. Robert Englund, who portrayed Freddy in the previous eight films, voiced his support of the remake and the casting of Haley in the role of Freddy. "A Nightmare on Elm Street" was officially released in North America on April 30, 2010, and later released in foreign markets on May 8, 2010. The film was met with negative reviews from both film critics and audience members who scored the film a C+ in CinemaScore polls. Regardless, "A Nightmare on Elm Street" broke the record for midnight openings for a horror film and grossed
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 film) a clawed glove, or is it a monster because of something deeper within the man himself. Wesley Strick was initially hired to pen a script for a new "A Nightmare on Elm Street" because he had impressed Emmerich with a prequel script he wrote for the 1995 film "Seven". Eric Heisserer was subsequently hired to provide a rewrite of Strick's script before the film moved into production. When Bayer came on board he received a script that reflected the combined efforts of Strick and Heisserer and which still "needed to be tinkered with". Bayer explained that the script goes deeper