When news like this hits the wires, it’s usually time for all film bloggers and journalists around the world to start doing one of two things. Killing their brain cells before being forced to actually watch it, or writing vitriolic posts about it. In fact, most do one, then the other, in order to protect themselves after their much needed vent.

Platinum Dunes, the current Kings of rebooting classic horrors and making them suitable for a modern audience (i.e. inserting gratuitous nudity and plot points) have decided that after having one of the three most iconic horror villians of the last 30 years stolen out from under their noses by Rob Zombie a few years ago, they’re not going to let it happen again. First they acquired the rights to a reboot of Friday the 13th, preventing Jason Voorhees from getting out of their clutches and now they’ve snapped up Freddy Krueger. According to /film, Michael Bay’s production company has decided that it’s ripe for a reboot, and are planning on hiring a writer when the (seemingly unending) writers’ strike ends.

However, the odds of Robert Englund, he of the bladed hands himself, returning for the reboot are low. So low in fact, that it’s depressing. Nightmare on Elm Street has always stood out as a horror through its subject matter. No matter that you know it can’t happen in the real world, when you fall asleep you have no control, and your dream can be his nightmare. That alone is freaky enough, but then bladed fingers?! C’mon, if this reboot manages to be even half as good as the original, it’ll surpass expectations around the globe.

Talking Point: Do we really need a reboot of Nightmare on Elm Street?