Jackie Earle Haley's Freddy Krueger Could Be Anybody's Freddy Krueger

Much ink has been spilled about how the power of Twitter lets filmmakers talk directly to fans, but hardly anything has been written about how it lets them torment fans. Several months ago, Jon Favreau whipped his followers into a frenzy about the imminent release of the first picture from Iron Man 2, then gave them a photo that looked like something the still photographer forgot to put in the EPK for Iron Man 1. Now, after some Twitter teasing from producer Brad Fuller, we have the very first image of Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare as Elm Street remake. Right? Don't we? The exciting, dramatically reinvented, full-sized image, after the jump:

Needs more Muppets.

· First look at the new FREDDY KRUEGER! [Fangoria]