Why He’s Perfect: No Pixar/live-action debate here, thankfully, as the supernatural entity known as Nightmare could only ever work as a CGI creation. The ruler of a shadowy “dream dimension”, Nightmare works his twisted magic by scaring the living shit out of people while they sleep.

Jackie Earl Haley had that pretty much down pat as Freddie Krueger, so who better to put the fear of God into Dr. Strange than he?

Haley also nailed the old faceless-menace routine in Watchmen, and we’d like to see him repeat the trick here. Sleep tight Doctor…

Essential Scene: Haley inflicts one of his own personal nightmares on the Doc, by making him dream his way through the whole of Maniac Cop 3: Badge Of Silence. Yikes!

But if Haley can’t do it…