Let's see, an Oscar nominated actor with chops to kill, or Robert Englund? Uhh, okay. I don't know why you wouldn't be excited about this one.
As long as they don't bring in any of the shit that made every NOES movie besides the first one so damn cheesy. Like dry ice and fog machines to convey dream sequences...uhhh, over done.... or the same dopey little theme played single note on a piano for the whole movie... double uuhhh... or Freddy talking about himself in the 3rd person, or little girls fucken jumping rope with the freakin fog machine and the cheesy single note theme playing all at once...
No, this movie can't help but be better. Just because an older movie brings back memories of me being a teen and seeing the first movie in the theater with my high school buddies doesn't make it good. The first one was good... the rest were horrible. Which is the one with the really bad Dokken song? Dream Warrior? Wow, now that's embarrassing.