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Warner Bros. Pictures and MySpace debuted a brand new poster for the upcoming remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street yesterday, giving us an extremely detailed look at the crispy, gnarly face of the new Freddy Krueger, played by Jackie Earle Haley. If there’s one take-away to be had with this poster, it’s that there is an incredible amount of detail in the make-up effects work of Karen Lynn Accattato and team. Their work combined with the work of concept artist Nathaniel West have given Freddy one hell of an update. I must say that even though there’s Photoshop at work here, I’m impressed with Freddy’s look. The new nightmare, from director Samuel Bayer and producers Andrew Form and Bradley Fuller, could very well turn out to be a sick affair, in a good way.

A Nightmare on Elm Street is due out April 30, 2010. The new trailer is set to debut on MySpace.com/TrailerPark on Thursday, 2/25 at 12:01 am PST. The new poster is below (click to enlarge), followed by the film’s official synopsis.

Poster:

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 (“Lit­tle Chil­dren,” “Watch­men”). The film is be­ing di­rect­ed by award-?win­ning mu­sic video and com­mer­cial di­rec­tor Samuel Bay­er (Nir­vana’s “Smells Like Teen Spir­it,” Green Day’s “Boule­vard of Bro­ken Dreams”), 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 (“The Haunt­ing in Con­necti­cut”), Katie Cas­sidy (“Tak­en,” TV’s “Su­per­nat­u­ral”), Rooney Mara (“Ur­ban Leg­end: Bloody Mary”), Thomas Dekker (“Ter­mi­na­tor: The Sarah Con­nor Chron­i­cles”), and Kel­lan Lutz (“Twi­light,” up­com­ing “The Twi­light Saga: New Moon”). The sup­port­ing cast al­so in­cludes vet­er­an char­ac­ter ac­tor Clan­cy Brown (“The Shaw­shank Re­demp­tion,” “High­lander”) and Con­nie Brit­ton (“Fri­day Night Lights”).