2k Views It’s got it’s share of detractors, and till this day there’s never been any further “Nightmare on Elm Street” movies, but one of the writers on the 2010 remake of the Wes Craven remake says one criticism is ridiculous. “Cape Fear” writer Wesley Strick tells The Production Meeting that, despite being a box office success, horror fans had a real problem with one of his big changes to Freddy Krueger in the film. “I dug into the nitty gritty of what I thought [a remake] would be, without worrying about what the blow back could be”, said Strick, adding that New Line’s Walter Hamada and Platinum Dunes were keen on having someone involved not necessarily known for his “blockbuster horror” work do the first draft of the film. “I didn’t understand how in the world Freddy (Krueger) was a child murderer, yet none of the kids in Springfield had ever heard of him. That seemed impossible. But I thought if he was a child molester, that’s a secret that’s kept by everybody, because it’s shameful for the victims as well. You could also question whether Freddy was guilty or whether he was righteously getting revenge for getting tracked down and killed by a vigilante mob who were wrong.”