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B-D Casting Call: ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ Remake
Bloody-Disgusting already broke the news that Brad Fuller and Andrew Form’s Platinum Dunes are set to follow their Friday the 13th remake with a relaunch of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Although they are still in the early stages of scripting, we thought it was the perfect time to offer up our picks for the cast of the ELM STREET remake. Feel free to post some of your suggestions below!
Casting the Nightmare on Elm Street Remake
The picks below are wishful thinking of course We all know chances are strong that most of the teen roles will go to the usual run-of-the-mill offshoots from The O.C., Gossip Girl and the like, but if we were making the choices, well then, you’d surely have a better movie. But I digress. If nothing else, let’s hope some deep thought goes into the crucial roles of Freddy and Nancy. Botching those could mean this one winds up more like the crappy Amityville Horror remake than the respectable Texas Chainsaw reworking. Knifed-fingers crossed!
Jackie Earle Hayley – Yes, it’s true, Hayley played a child molestor in his career-resurging role as Ronnie J. McGorvey in Little Children, but that’s not the only reason he’s the perfect man to reinvigorate the legendary dream killer. Hayley’s career is on the upswing and, let’s be realistic here, he is pretty creepy looking! The footage we’ve seen of him so far in Watchman as Rorschach looks pretty bad-ass and he just finished shooting a role as a mental patient for Martin Scorsese in Shutter Island. Good enough for Marty, good enough for Freddy Krueger. Hayley is the perfect choice to create a darker, more maniacal, scarier Freddy like the character that was first envisioned by Craven in the early `80s.
Alternate – Adrien Brody
Amanda Seyfried – Considering the current crop of young starlets coming down the Hollywood pipeline, it would be a big challenge to find an actress with the wholesome innocence of Langenkamp. Amanda Seyfried (from Mamma Mia! and HBO’s Big Love) certainly has the right look and those big innocent eyes that might just pull it off. Hopefully producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form will keep the original’s spirit in mind in this respect rather than opting for the standard choice of another model-turned-actress that “impressed” a producer.
Alternate – Dakota Fanning
Marcia Cross – Cross has already done the stumbling drunk thing a bit as the tightly wound Bree Hodge on Desperate Housewives. Plus she’d be able to channel her Melrose past by hamming it up in homage to Ronee Blakely. And while we certainly all have a nostalgic affection for Blakely’s overdone performance from the first Elm Street, it would be nice to see Cross balance things a bit and tone down the hamminess just a tad.
Alternate – Drew Barrymoore
Josh Brolin – Sure, this one is probably a longshot after Brolin went legit in Coen Bros. and Oliver Stone flicks, but wouldn’t it be great? Going through the current list of middle-aged Hollywood actors, it’s hard to find many with the right level of grizzled toughness Saxon possessed. Most of the guys out there today are too pretty to picture as tough guy cop fathers with a drinking problem. Maybe they can just de-age Saxon like X-Men 3 and use him again?
Alternate: Bill Moseley
Jamie Bell – Taking on the tough guy wrongly accused of Tina’s murder could be another step towards shedding his Billy Elliot past after impressive turns last year in Jumper and Defiance. The audition is simple: greased hair, black leather jacket and reading the line “Hey, up yours with a twirling lawnmower” without so much as a smirk.
Alternate: Lucas Black
Unknown Future Hollywood A-lister – Considering that then unknown Johnny Depp went on to become one of the most accomplished and beloved actors in Hollywood, the pressure is certainly on for the actor that winds up stepping into these shoes. Logan Lerman was great in 3:10 to Yuma and managed to save face in the hokey Number 23. Living up Depp’s career might be a stretch, but at least he’d do the role proud.
Alternate: Young Johnny Depp lookalike contest winner
Lindsay Lohan – Come on, am I the only one that wants to see this busty party girl thrashed around in a pool of blood on an upside down ceiling? I have issues, you say? Admit it, you got a little excited thinking about it… Whoever plays this femme slash fodder won’t be long for this world anyway. If the remake is any good, it could be a career jolt similar to Drew Barrymoore’s brief death scene in the first Scream.
Alternate: Mischa Barton
This week kicked off with the release of hippo horror movie Hungry at home, and four more horror movies have arrived for at-home viewing as we head into the final weekend of June.
Here are the new horror movies that released on Friday, June 26, 2026!
The Halloween season can no longer be contained to the months of September and October, with “Summerween” becoming a thing in recent years. Essentially, it allows for Halloween to bleed into the warmer Summer months, and the first ever Summerween movie has arrived.
The Asylum released Summerween onto Digital outlets today.
In the film from writer/director Ryan Ebert, “On Summerween, a former circus clown escapes a mental institution to return to his abandoned mansion and hunt the teens partying there.”
Cole Chapleski, Chase Breithoff, Logan Roe, Sophia Sabol, and Clint Morrison star.
Director Ryan Ebert is the man behind a string of recent indie horrors we’ve covered, including Shark Side of the Moon, The Jolly Monkey, Jurassic Reborn, and Predator: Wastelands.
A witchy coming-of-age story from Dark Sky Films, Camp is now playing in select theaters.
Check your local listings to find a theater near you.
Camp is from writer-director Avalon Fast (Honeycomb, The Serpent’s Skin).
“Emily is the root cause of two devastating tragedies very early in her life, and she feels the weight of these accidents as though cursed. At her father’s suggestion, she takes a position at a summer camp for troubled youth to ease her guilt. When Emily arrives, she is welcomed by the other counselors, who accept her as she is and surround her with peace and forgiveness.
“As Emily begins to believe in a new kind of life, she starts to hear a voice whispering from deep in the woods — one that urges her to go home, and one that may be impossible to ignore.”
The film stars Zola Grimmer in her screen debut alongside Alice Wordsworth, Cherry Moore, Lea Rose Sebastianis (Castration Movie Part 1 & 2, In A Violent Nature), Ella Reece, Austyn Van de Kamp (This Too Shall Pass), Sophie Bawks-Smith (Honeycomb), Izza Jarvis, and Aiden Laudersmith.
Producers Tyler Perry and Jason Blum have joined forces for Peacock Original Strung.
The film is now streaming only on Peacock.
“A talented violinist takes a prestigious job as a music tutor for the gifted daughter of an influential and enigmatic family. As she becomes entangled in their opulent world, unsettling secrets begin to surface, forcing her to question her safety, her dreams, and even her sanity.”
Malcolm D. Lee (Scary Movie 5, Space Jam: A New Legacy) directs from a script written by Alan B. McElroy (Wrong Turn, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers).
Chloe Bailey (“Swarm“), Lynn Whitfield (Jaws: The Revenge), Lucien Laviscount (“Scream Queens”), Anna Diop (Us), Coco Jones (Vampires vs. the Bronx), Langley Kirkwood (“Banshee”), and Romy Woods star in Peacock’s Strung.
Produced by Diablo Cody, director Meredith Alloway’s Forbidden Fruits brought a new coven of witches to the big screen earlier this year, and it’s now streaming on Shudder.
Lola Tung (“The Summer I Turned Pretty”), Victoria Pedretti (“The Haunting of Hill House”), Alexandra Shipp (Tragedy Girls), Gabrielle Union (Breaking In), and Emma Chamberlain star in Forbidden Fruits, released by IFC and Shudder.
Free Eden employee Apple secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the basement of the mall store after hours. But when new hire Pumpkin challenges the group’s ‘girl boss’ ways, the women are forced to face their own poisons or succumb to a bloody fate.
“Forbidden Fruits grabbed me by the neck the very first time I read it,” Diablo Cody said. “It’s one of the craziest, most creative, beautifully bonkers projects I’ve ever worked on.”
Meagan Navarro writes in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “Forbidden Fruits may not necessarily forge new terrain in the teen satire space, but Alloway brings so much style and energy to her well-cast single-location stage play adaptation for the Gen Z crowd.”
The film is an adaptation of playwright Lily Houghton’s stage play Of the Women Came the Beginning of Sin and Through Her We All Die. Alloway and Houghton co-adapted.
This week’s new release roundups are presented by HUNGRY.
All aboard the swamp tour from hell – this hippo isn’t playing games…
HUNGRY is now available on Digital. Watch it now!
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