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Warner Bros. has released the second trailer for the upcoming horror remake A Nightmare on Elm Street, which stars Jackie Earle Haley as the iconic dreamscape killer Freddie Krueger. Just as any great horror trailer tends to do, this one opens with something quite shocking — quiet, spooky calm, then BAM! It gets me every time. But I’m a gigantic wimp. Hopefully you will hold up better, as this trailer runs over two minutes long and definitely brings some terror.

You can check out the new trailer and the film’s official synopsis below. A Nightmare on Elm Street comes to us from the folks at Platinum Dunes, producers Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller. They are the gents who brought us remakes of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and last year’s Friday the 13th. This time they bring in director Samuel Bayer and take a cast of nubile youths back to Elm Street, where they will be tortured slowly by sleep deprivation and — as we see in this trailer — one creepy looking Jackie Earle Haley.

A Nightmare on Elm Street opens April 30, 2010.

Trailer:

Synopsis:

Fred­dy Krueger re­turns in A Night­mare on Elm Street, a con­tem­po­rary re-imag­in­ing of the hor­ror clas­sic. A group of sub­ur­ban teenagers share one com­mon bond: they are all be­ing stalked by Fred­dy Krueger, a hor­ri­bly dis­fig­ured killer who hunts them in their dreams. As long as they stay awake, they can pro­tect one an­oth­er…but when they sleep, there is no es­cape

Don­ning Fred­dy’s trade­mark fe­do­ra, red-and-green striped sweater, and four-blad­ed glove is Acade­my Award® nom­i­nee Jack­ie Ear­le Ha­ley. The film is be­ing di­rect­ed by award-?win­ning mu­sic video and com­mer­cial di­rec­tor Samuel Bay­er, mark­ing his fea­ture film de­but.

The teens whose dreams are ter­ror­ized by Fred­dy Krueger are played by an en­sem­ble of young ac­tors, in­clud­ing Kyle Gall­ner, Katie Cas­sidy, Rooney Mara, Thomas Dekker, and Kel­lan Lutz. The sup­port­ing cast al­so in­cludes vet­er­an char­ac­ter ac­tor Clan­cy Brown and Con­nie Brit­ton.