Like Freddy, it's hard to keep him down. Wes Craven will be directing his first original script in 13 years come April.

25/8 is about a serial killer who resurfaces 15 years after he was supposedly killed, to hunt down the seven children born on the night of his death. If it sounds a little like Freddy Krueger, Craven tells Variety: "It's more a thriller than slasher film, and revolves around a young kid with a very dark past involving his family and his father."

Also in April, production begins in South Africa on the remake of Craven's The Last House On The Left (the original 1972 pic was itself inspired by Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring), which is produced by Craven himself.

In the same Variety report, it's announced that Rogue Pictures, which produces 25/8, has also agreed on a remake of George Romero's 1972 The Crazies.