A Stranger Things Star Boasted About Working With Both A Nightmare On Elm Street 3's Director And Co-Writer, And I Think It's The Perfect Team To Reboot Freddy Krueger

Conversations about rebooting the Elm Street franchise have been plentiful over the years, both before and after the lackluster 2010 effort, with Elijah Wood voicing interest , and fellow horror mastermind Mike Flanagan also having pitched ideas . None of those went very far, for reasons, but now my desire for a new Freddy Krueger has been rekindled by a most villainous Stranger Things familiar.

Jamie Campbell Bower, who brought Stranger Things ’ big bad Vecna to life in Season 4, is definitely set to return in upcoming Season 5 episodes , but is currently promoting his latest genre release, a remake of the 1986 supernatural horror Witchboard . Having hit the 2025 release schedule on August 15, the updated occult flick was directed by Chuck Russell, who also happened t