It was the film that terrified thousands of teenagers in the 1980s, about a psychotic killer who stalked and butchered teens in their dreams.
And while the original 1984 A Nightmare on Elm Street became a cult horror classic, the 2010 remake, directed by Samuel Bayer and starring Rooney Mara and Kellan Lutz, was widely slashed (yep, we went there) by critics - despite a healthy intake at the box office.
Now, the writers of the original Elm Street screenplay, Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer, have revealed that their original idea was nothing like what Bayer went with. In fact, it was so much more disturbing...
Speaking to Bloody Disgusting, the writers said they wanted the reboot to be "a twisted version of The Goonies", in order to beef up the fact that psycho-slasher Freddy Krueger was a child molester.
"We thought it would have been great for a remake to switch the teenagers of the original with real kids," they explained.
"Our idea of a good remake is to have a new vision on the same thematics. Here, it was to really use the fact that Krueger is a child molester. So the idea was to have a twisted version of the Goonies with a bunch of kids being stalked."
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Written and directed by Wes Craven, the first Nightmare on Elm Street featured Johnny Depp in his feature film debut.
Set in the fictional Midwestern town of Springwood, Ohio, the plot revolves around several teenagers who are stalked and killed in their dreams (and thus killed in reality) by Krueger.
The teenagers are unaware of the cause of this strange phenomenon - though it turns out that their parents have a rough idea.
Strick and Heisserer added: "Childhood is the moment in life when you are truly and deeply frightened by nightmares, when you're not able to see the difference between reality and dreams."
We're scared just reading it...
