Robert Englund, who played the iconic horror movie villain Freddy Krueger has voiced his hopes that the horror franchise will do a more explicitly queer remake in a future entry.
Speaking to TooFab, Englund mused that viewers of the films would be more open to a more diverse cast of characters in the films now.
He said if there was a remake of the horror film franchise, which received its last entry in 2010, it would need to focus on “middle American kids that think they’re a little hip and they are co-opted by evil and they lose their innocence on all levels.” He added: “But because our society now is more damaged because of the opioid crisis, because of the openness now with gender and sexuality, those kids now have to be different than