Samuel Bayer’s A Nightmare on Elm Street has a lot working against it. It's a remake, it's being produced by Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes label, and it is reinventing a character that horror fans have loved for 26 years. So why does it actually look like it could work?

Yahoo! has released the first clip from the film and not only does Jackie Earle Haley look perfect in the Freddy Krueger get up, the direction looks pretty cool as well. The scene features our protagonist, Nancy (played by Rooney Mara), experiencing a walking nightmare in a supermarket. Fans of the original may recognize that this is where Nancy tears off a piece of Freddy's sweater and brings it out of the dream world, which allows them to hatch their plan to destroy him.

Check out the clip below or in HD over at Yahoo!