"Nightmare On Elm Street" producer Brad Fuller recently discussed the experience of rebooting Wes Craven's classic film and reviving an uncompromising, terrifying villain.

Principal photography wrapped last week on the remake that stars Jackie Earle Haley as iconic dream stalker Fred Krueger.

Fuller said in a blog post hosted by Bloody-Disgusting that all "effort, time and pain was for a great cause. We did it all for Freddy. To realize our dream of bringing him back... the way we remember him. Scary, mean and nasty.

"... I can tell you I am proud of what we did," Fuller said. "Proud that Jackie Earle Haley was uncompromising in his desire to create a Freddy that is uniquely his own creation. Proud of Andrew Clement for his desire to create a look that will shock and scare you. You will surely recognize Freddy, but he is distinctively different, more real and more burned. Jackie and Clement spent four hours a day painstaking applying all the make-up, appliances, texture before coming to shoot. ... See what we've done and then pass judgment; but there isn't a person out there who can tell me Jackie isn't a terrifying, inspired, awesome Freddy."

Guiding Krueger through this new nightmare was visionary director Sam Bayer. "Nightmare On Elm Street"s marked his first venture into feature films. However, he is no stranger to directing, having helmed such landmark music videos as Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams."

"Sam Bayer suffered for this movie," Fuller said. "He pushed himself so hard that I worried that he couldn't maintain his pace, yet he did. No one had more sleepless nights than Sam -- replaying the day's events over and over in his head, questioning how to make it scarier, better.

"We would often have breakfast together before shooting and he was never content. If he was concerned that he could improve on a scare, he and our first ad, Myron, would figure out our schedule so we could shoot the scene until Sam felt it was as good as it could be. Sam has very high standards and he was unrelenting. He brought all his experience to those nightmares and they are outstanding; if you aren't familiar with his work, check him out on YouTube, he is a great visual artist."

Though Fuller's praise for the shoot makes it seem like a dream, he indicated the project was like riding a unicycle down a steep hill.

"... we had all sorts of challenges on every level, but what was great about making this film was that we all had the same goal in mind," he explained. "It really felt like a team effort to get to the finish line. And for me personally, when the end did come I didn't want it to."

"Nightmare On Elm Street" also stars Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Thomas Dekker, Kellan Lutz, Katie Cassidy, Clancy Brown and Connie Britton.

It hits theaters April 16, 2010.