Even as franchise revivals and 1980s nostalgia have become Hollywood's bread and butter, there's one horror series that hasn't been squeezed to diminishing returns. "A Nightmare on Elm Street," once a staple of slasher cinema, hasn't been awakened in the past 15 years and counting.
Sure, the series' influence is still felt. Both horror films like "Black Phone 2" and TV like "Stranger Things" season 4 have included dream-haunting killers in the vein of Freddy Krueger. But why hasn't the actual "Nightmare" been touched for well over a decade? Series creator Wes Craven passed away in 2015, while Freddy Krueger actor Robert Englund feels he has aged out of the role . The last "Elm Street" movie was a remake of the original, released in 2010, which recast Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy. The

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