Craven: 'I won't see 'Elm Street' remake'

Wes Craven has claimed that he won't see the remake of his classic horror film A Nightmare On Elm Street.

Speaking to DS, the filmmaker said that the experience of watching the revised version "might be too painful. I might just pretend it's not there".

Craven has no creative input in Samuel Bayer's film, starring Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner and Katie Cassidy, after losing ownership of the 1984 horror when he sold the screenplay.

"Nobody's called me or anything - I don't know what the script's like, I don't know who's in it," Craven said. "Frankly, that's painful. It was one of my better ideas and better films, but the fact is that, because I was completely broke [when I sold the script], I completely sold the rights to it."

A remake of Craven's first feature The Last House On The Left is in cinemas now, and the veteran director noted that he had complete control of the film in a producing capacity.

"Last House On The Left, it was a matter of after 30 years the rights came back to me and the producer Sean Cunningham," he explained. "We had total control of that project. I have no control over the new Nightmare and no participation."

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