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No: A Nightmare on Elm Street prequel series

Freddy Krueger’s pre-Nightmare, pre-burn victim life was already covered in the films, especially in 1991’s Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, which features an extended flashback revealing his troubled childhood. And while we love Freddy as a razor-fingered dream stalker as fond of quippy one-liners as he is drawing blood, do we really need to see him, like, alive and well and victimizing children week after week on a TV series? A TV series would also open the door for another actor besides Robert Englund to play Freddy, which—as the 2010 re-do amply demonstrated—is a nightmarish idea.