13 Small Changes That Would Make Terrible Movies Awesome

5. Freddy Is Innocent - A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)

Before the 2010 remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street came out, there were rumours that the film was going to take a radically different approach to the Freddy Krueger character by having him actually be innocent of the horrendous crimes against children that the local mob accused him of and killed him for. In essence, the town would be responsible for a monster of their own creation.

Though the remake briefly flirts with the idea, it's quickly discarded and Freddy is ultimately revealed to be the child molester the mob believed him to be.

It's such a shame, as the idea of changing Krueger's origin story in a way that reflects contemporary knee-jerk "Won't someone think of the children!?" social attitudes would've actually resulted in a remake that had something to say and didn't just retread what came before.

Freddy presumably still would've been defeated in the end, but it also would've made his character tragic in a clever way while heightening the overall moral ambiguity of the situation. Instead, fans got a generic-o remake that totally wasted Jackie Earle Haley's sublimely creepy performance.