Today’s local Chicago headlines tell of a grade school near my old neighborhood closing due to swine flu and the possibility of Brett Favre, released from the Jets, joining the Vikings.

But a smaller story gives us this week’s Plumbing At The Movies. Filmmakers are remaking 1984’s “Nightmare On Elm Street” and are negotiating with administrators to film at one of two suburban high schools.

The original film introduced Freddy Krueger, a child murderer who killed at least 20 kids before the movie begins. Angry parents burned him alive in his boiler room hideout after he was released from prison on a technicality.

Wikipedia tells me that the scene in which Freddy attacks the main character while she takes a bath was done using a bathroom set constructed over a swimming pool with a bottomless bathtub. The trailer shows a part of the scene about one minute in. You can easily find the whole scene on YouTube.

By the way, this was Johnny Depp’s first film role.