When compared to Michael Myers from Halloween and Jason Voorhees from Friday The 13th, there’s just something about Freddy that makes him so much more terrifying, eerie, and dynamic. Since Freddy only murders people when they’re asleep, that gives him a different kind of motive than the others, who kill like typical horror bad guys. If there is a new movie in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, fans look forward to seeing Freddy Krueger again, and Robert Englund should definitely reprise his famous role.

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A Nightmare Of Elm Street reboot would need a new director because of the sad passing of Wes Craven in 2015, and fans would really love to see Robert Englund come back to play his classic villain. Fans wonder if he would return for just one movie based on one thing that he said a few years back. Robert Englund said in an interview with Access Live in 2018, “I think they want to reboot the franchise, but they’re gonna need a new actor. They’re gonna need a new actor to play Freddy because they’re gonna have to do eight of them. I might have one left in me… but yeah.”

Robert Englund’s Freddy Krueger is unique as he has dialogue and he even has a personality, and he is one of the most beloved slasher horror movie villains. When compared to other bad guys, Freddy actually speaks and even makes some jokes in later films in the franchise. That’s a huge deal and something that makes him a lot more memorable than others. If the role is recast, what would Freddy be like? Would he still have his own lines and his own personality traits? While he’s of course a horrible figure who kills people in their nightmares, and no one would ever be sympathetic toward him, he is still a well-written character. It’s hard to say that Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees are anything like Freddy when they don’t speak and walk around kind of woodenly. Sure, that might be the point and these villains are scary in their own way, but there’s something fresh about Freddy.

Jackie Earle Haley played Fred/Freddy Krueger in 2010’s A Nightmare On Elm Street, which is a horrible horror movie remake, and unfortunately, Freddy really fails as a villain here. He isn’t freaky, terrifying, or even interesting. In this film, Freddy was a groundskeeper at a preschool and people said that he molested the kids who were students there. In the 1984 film, Freddy murdered children and so a group of parents got together to burn and kill him. Both backstories are gruesome and disturbing, and there just isn’t anything much to the Freddy in the 2010 film.

If Robert Englund had returned for the 2010 remake, it might still have had lackluster characters and nothing new to add to the already popular story. But Freddy would at least feel like the same villain he had always been and Englund would bring his talent to the role.

Although Freddy in the 2010 movie has a green and red sweater, plus his trademark hat, there’s just something different about him. His face also looks nothing like it does in the rest of the slasher horror franchise. Just like the Ghostface killers in Scream have some humorous things to say, Freddy is known for his dialogue. In the first film, he says the chilling line “Come to Freddy,” and in the third movie, he has the most personality: he says quotes like “Sorry, kid. I don’t believe in fairy tales” and “I said, where’s the f*cking bourbon?” These lines were missing from the 2010 movie and Freddy is more of an obvious villain instead of someone who seems to be commenting on what’s going on and speaking directly to his intended victims.

While Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) does appear in several of the movies, Freddy Krueger is the bigger link for every film since he’s in all of them, and fans feel strongly about Robert Englund playing him.

If there is a reboot of A Nightmare On Elm Street, then it would be awesome if Robert Englund could come back and play Freddy Krueger the way that fans remember him. Without this actor reprising this beloved part, it’s hard to imagine the movie being any better than the disappointing 2010 remake, which would be too bad because horror fans really want to see a great new installment in this smart franchise.

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