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23 July 2008 9:23 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

I'm slightly encouraged by one line in the description of the new Nightmare on Elm Street movie, although I still think the producers are missing the only golden opportunity left for the franchise and Freddy Krueger.

The line goes like this, "The new project will keep the high school setting [of the original] and delve deeper in the psychology of nightmares and Krueger himself." That's from The Hollywood Reporter via Movieweb, incidentally. That's close to what I think the Nightmare franchise needs, but we'll see how much psychological delving they do when the time comes.

I still think the golden opportunity here is not a remake, not to present the events of the first film again, but rather to do a prequel. We know what a dark character Krueger is and we know how he came to haunt people's dreams, but what about a movie that shows us the human Krueger? Isn't that slightly more compelling?

Colin Boyd

23 July 2008 4:01 AM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Michael Bay recently told Entertainment Weekly they were still working on bringing the remake version of Nightmare on Elm Street together and it seems there is some movement as New Line has hirted Wesley Strick to pen the relaunch as Freddy Krueger (played by Robert Englund in all its previous incarnations), a serial child killer murdered who returns with a burned face and razor glove to terrorize teens in their dreams will be brought back to "life". The new project will keep the high school setting and delve deeper in the psychology of nightmares and Krueger himself. The plan is to have a dark tone. The company hopes to have the movie ready for the 25th anniversary of the original. The move to create a "dark tone" is obviously a comment on how overly comical the slew of sequels became as the Nightmare films became more and more campy as time went on.

Brad Brevet

22 July 2008 10:52 PM, PDT | From iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news

Despite earlier rumors that Damian Shannon & Mark Swift (Freddy Vs Jason, the new Friday The 13th remake) were taking a crack at the script for Platinum Dunes proposed remake of A Nightmare On Elm Street, it appears another writer has officially landed the gig of bringing Freddy Krueger back.

The Hollywood Reporter says that Wesley Strick will "pen the relaunch of the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series, the franchise that helped establish New Line into a movie player in the mid-1980s." Strick also wrote Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear, Arachnophobia, Wolf, The Saint, The Glass House and... Doom.

The article continues, "The original "Nightmare" was written and directed by Wes Craven and released in 1984. It created one of the most popular villains in screen history, Freddy Krueger, played by Robert Englund, and its runaway success spawned a slew of sequels. The new project will keep the high school

22 July 2008 3:00 PM, PDT | From iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news

Hot on the news that Shannon Elizabeth, Monica Keena and Diora Baird will top-line the new Night Of The Demons remake, Shock Till You Drop confirmed 3 more names to the cast, Bobbi Sue Luther, Jonathan Beach and Michael Copon. Bobbi Sue Luther (pictured below) also appeared most recently in Rob Hall's Laid To Rest and Robert Englund's Killer Pad. Genre fans will recognize Shannon Elizabeth from THIR13EN Ghosts, Cursed & Scary Movie, Monica Keena from Freddy Vs Jason and Diora Baird from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. Adam Giersasch directs from a script he co-wrote with Jace Anderson. (The duo also scripted Dario Argento's Mother Of Tears) Shooting begins this September in New Orleans.

Good lord! This could very well be the hottest cast for a recent horror movie ever!!!

8 July 2008 3:45 PM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

Magnolia Pictures has finally settled on its release plans for Lucky McKee and Trygve Allister Diesen’s Red, an adaptation of the Jack Ketchum novel of the same name.

The film will open in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, August 8th, with a slow rollout to more theaters to follow. Brian Cox, Tom Sizemore, Robert Englund, Kim Dickens and more star in this haunting tale about a man (Cox) who loses his only companion, a 14-year-old ginger-haired dog named Red, when some reckless teenagers with a shotgun show up at his favorite fishing spot. Determined to track them down and bring the truth out about what they did, he’s stopped at every turn by the closed minds in his small town.

We’ll have more info, including a theater/city listing for Red’s larger opening, as soon as it’s available. Red follows the tradition started

Johnny Butane

17 June 2008 1:09 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Tody the official website for the awesome Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer received a major overhaul. The site now contains loads of downloads, videos and behind-the-scenes goodies to keep you busy for hours. Directed by Jon Knautz, the film features a plumber by the name of Jack Brooks who has an anger management problem, which he uses to beat the crap out of a variety of monsters. Robert Englund stars in the film coming this year from Anchor Bay Entertainment. No one would ever believe what happened the night Jack Brooks witnessed the brutal murder of his family. His life destroyed, all he has left is an unquenchable fury he's now fighting to control. Now the local plumber, Jack continuously struggles with his memories as his life becomes a downward spiral until his girlfriend Eve convinces him to attend night classes...

14 April 2008 6:55 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

With such variety this week, we could be tempted to go nuts and combine them into one super movie. Osama Bin Laden would have 88 minutes to paint an anamorphic picture that disproved Darwinism while riding the winner of the Kentucky Derby through ancient China with his gay lover who is also an Oscar nominated composer moonlighting as a zombie stripper...we smell a Golden Globe!

"Anamorph"

Utilizing the painting technique of anamorphosis, whereby the nature of an image changes depending on the viewer's vantage point, filmmaker Henry Miller marks his directorial debut with this intricate and cerebral thriller that reads like "Saw" by way of "The Da Vinci Code." Willem Dafoe stars as the dogged but haunted Detective Aubray, on the trail of carefully placed clues and elaborate puzzles, trying to catch a serial killer whose crimes bare a striking resemblance to an old

Neil Pedley

27 March 2008 1:30 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Sony Pictures has given Jay Lee's Zombie Strippers an official April 18 theatrical release for the film that stars Robert Englund, Jenna Jameson, Roxy Saint, Joey Medina, Shamron Moore, Penny Drake, Jennifer Holland and John Hawkes. If you head on over to the film's new official website you can check out the play dates and see if it's coming to a theater near you or just read on for the trailer. When a secret government agency lets out a deadly chemo virus causing the reanimation of the dead, the first place to get hit is Rhinos, a hot underground strip club. As one of the strippers gets the virus, she turns into a supernatural, flesh-eating zombie stripper, making her the hit of the club. Do the rest of the girls fight the temptation to be like the star stripper, even if there is no turning back?

18 March 2008 7:18 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Former porn star Jenna Jameson and her wrestler boyfriend Tito Ortiz are set to raise the dead in a new movie project called Zombie Strippers.

The couple will team up with A Nightmare On Elm Street star Robert Englund for the Jay Lee film about an underground Nebraska strip club hit by a deadly virus that reanimates the dead.

Jameson plays one of the strippers infected, who turns into a supernatural, flesh-eating zombie - the hit of the club.

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24 February 2008 10:23 PM, PST | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

To promote his latest DVD release, Killer Pad, actor-turned-director Robert Englund took some time out of his hectic schedule to chat a bit about the film, which is now available from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. Click here to read the full interview, which features more details on The Vij and what happened to Real Nightmares, the reality TV series hosted by Englund. Killer Pad revolves around three friends who use money from an insurance claim to move out of their parents' homes. They score a place in the Hollywood Hills and refuse to believe that the house has a dark history.

18 February 2008 2:31 PM, PST | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

We got in touch with actor-turned-director Robert Englund to chat about his latest release Killer Pad (review), which is now available on DVD everywhere from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. During the interview we squeezed in a question about New Line and Platinum Dunes' upcoming remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, which has caused mass confusion on whether or not Englund would be returning as the infamous Freddy Krueger. Inside you can read his Official respond to the rumors circulating on the web and watch this spot for a full interview in the coming week and don't forget to read our 15 Reasons For a Nightmare Remake!...

11 articles from 2008