Robert Englund Talks Potential Elm Street Return
Steve Barton
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Though he’s nearing his 70’s, Robert Englund made a name for both himself and New Line Cinema with his iconic portrayal of the dream demon Freddy Krueger.
Square Eyed TV reports that at the Film Comic Con in Belfast, Ireland, Englund dropped an interesting tidbit of news during a Q&A session when he spoke about the possibility of returning to the franchise, telling the audience, “I would certainly like to be invited to do a cameo, to maybe play the cantankerous old professor or the group therapy guy that doesn’t believe they’re having nightmares. I think it would be fun for the audience.”
As for his thoughts on the 2010 remake and what went wrong, Englund said that the film didn’t give audiences a chance or even a reason to care about the people on the screen. “You don’t ever see any of the people happy go-lucky; they’re never untainted,” Englund explains. “You need to see before and after so you can invest emotionally with the children. They’re practically zombies from the get-go because they’re haunted by Freddy, and I think that was a miscalculation.”
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