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Lainie Miller, who performed a dazzling burlesque number in The Graduate before going on to work as a longtime Hollywood labor advocate, script supervisor, business agent and producer, has died. She was 84.

Miller died Tuesday in her Los Angeles home in Toluca Lake after a battle with metastatic cancer, a family spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter.

Her husband, the noted character actor Dick Miller — he appeared in lots of Roger Corman and Joe Dante films, among them A Bucket of Blood and Gremlins — died in January 2019 at age 90. They were together for nearly 60 years.

Born Sheila Elaine in Ontario, Canada, in March 1941, she took up dance as a child to recover from polio, which had her in an iron lung from ages 3 to 5.

She trained in contortion and ballet for 13 years — she once performed in Swan Lake at Toronto’s Royal Alexandra, the oldest operating theater in North America — and...

Friday the 13th final girl and Knots Landing star Lar Park Lincoln has sadly passed away at the age of 63. The news was announced via Facebook by Actors Audition Studios, the Dallas-based company she founded that helps up-and-coming actors succeed in Hollywood. Lincoln was best known to horror fans as Tina Shepard, the beloved final girl from Friday the 13th Part VII with telekinetic powers that gave Jason Voorhees a fight like no other before her.

"It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Lar Park Lincoln, celebrated actress, founder of Actors Audition Studios, and America's beloved Audition Coach, on April 22, 2025," the statement on Facebook read. "Over her 45-year career, Lar left an unforgettable mark on Hollywood through her dynamic performances and dedication to mentoring aspiring actors."

"A Dallas-based entrepreneur, Lar founded Actors Audition Studios and authored Get Started, Not Scammed. Her television legacy includes her iconic...

Lar Park-Lincoln, who played Linda Fairgate in nearly 50 episodes of CBS’ 1979-1993 primetime sudser Knots Landing, died on April 22. She was 63.

A cause of death was not immediately made available. Park-Lincoln had battled breast cancer since 2008, and as of 2012 had already gone through nine surgeries.

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“It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Lar Park-Lincoln, celebrated actress, founder of Actors Audition Studios, and America’s beloved Audition Coach,” Actors Audition Studios shared on Facebook Thursday.

Lar Park Lincoln, who played dual characters on “Knot’s Landing” and starred in “Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood,” died April 22. She was 63.

Her company Actors Audition Studios announced her death on Facebook.

For five years, Lincoln played Linda Fairgate, daughter-in-law to the character Karen Fairgate, who was played by Michele Lee. She also appeared as the character known as Sally’s friend — who was a dead body for eight episodes.

Her first screen role was as a young sex worker in TV movie “Children of the Night” opposite Kathleen Quinlan and Mario Van Peebles.

She went on to have roles in “Heart of the City,” “Hunter,” “Outlaws,” “The Princess Academy,” “House II,” and “Highway to Heaven.”

After appearing as Tina Shepard, the teenage protagonist with telekinetic abilities in “Friday the 13th Part VII,” Lincoln appeared in “Freddy’s Nightmares,” “Murder She Wrote,” “Beverly Hills 90210” and “City of Justice.

Sad news today as it’s been announced that Lar Park Lincoln has died at the age of 63. Most of us know Lincoln best for her starring role in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood. She played Tina Shepard, a young woman with telekinetic powers who battles Jason Voorhees and gives him an ass-kickin’ he wouldn’t soon forget.

Actors Audition Studios, a company founded by Lincoln, announced that the actress had died on Tuesday. A cause of death wasn’t given, but she had previously battled breast cancer. “Over her 45-year career, Lar left an unforgettable mark on Hollywood through her dynamic performances and dedication to mentoring aspiring actors,” reads the post.

Lincoln was already a fan of Friday the 13th before she got the role in The New Blood, and was thrilled when she learned that the movie she had auditioned for under the working title...

Lar Park Lincoln, who portrayed the conniving Linda Fairgate on Knots Landing and Tina Shepard, a woman with telekinetic powers, in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, has died. She was 63.

Lincoln, who battled breast cancer, died Tuesday, Actors Audition Studios, a Dallas-based company she founded, announced. No other details were immediately available.

“Over her 45-year career, Lar left an unforgettable mark on Hollywood through her dynamic performances and dedication to mentoring aspiring actors,” company execs said.

Park Lincoln arrived on CBS’ Knots Landing in 1987 as Linda, the daughter-in-law of Michele Lee’s Karen Fairgate, during the primetime soap’s ninth season. She returned as the character for the 11th season in 1989 and remained through season 13, when Linda is murdered by Brian Johnston (Philip Brown).

Along the way, her character was married to Eric Fairgate (Steve Shaw) and had an affair with his brother, Michael (Patrick Petersen), and...

Lar Park Lincoln, best known for her role in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, has passed away. She was 63 years old.

The news of Lincoln's death was announced on Facebook by Actors Audition Studios, which she had founded. The post noted that Lincoln died on April 22, though no additional information was shared about the cause or circumstances of her death. While the family has asked for privacy, the support fans are showing in the wake of the news has them feeling grateful, and it's encouraged that donations could be made in her honor to The SAG-AFTRA Foundation or The Entertainment Community Fund.

"It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Lar Park Lincoln, celebrated actress, founder of Actors Audition Studios, and America’s beloved Audition Coach, on April 22, 2025," the announcement reads in part. "Over her 45-year career, Lar left an unforgettable mark on Hollywood...

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood star Lar Park Lincoln passed away on April 22 at the age of 63.

“It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Lar Park Lincoln,” Actors Audition Studios, which Lincoln founded, shared on Facebook. “Over her 45-year career, Lar left an unforgettable mark on Hollywood through her dynamic performances and dedication to mentoring aspiring actors.”

Lincoln is best known for squaring off against Jason Voorhees as telekinetic final girl Tina Sheppard in The New Blood.

She reprised the role in the 2021 fan film Rose Blood. She also appeared in House II: The Second Story, 13 Fanboy, Sky Sharks, and an episode of “Freddy’s Nightmares.”

Lincoln’s TV credits include a recurring part on “Knots Landing” and guest starring spots on “Beverly Hills, 90210” and “Murder, She Wrote.”

The Dallas-based entrepreneur published a book about a career in the entertainment industry, Get Started,...

2010's A Nightmare on Elm Street is one of the most polarizing horror movie remakes, and that's not lost on actor Jackie Earle Haley. On April 1, Haley took advantage of the April Fools' Day fun by posting that he was returning as Freddy Krueger for a sequel to his reboot 15 years later.

Sharing an image of the poster for his Nightmare on Elm Street movie on X, Haley wrote, "As most of you already know... It's official: Warner just green lit Noes 2026. Super pumped and excited to don the glove again... 1, 2, guess who's coming for you..." Haley then wrote a comment on the post afterward to add, "April Fools."

As most of you already know... It's official: Warner just green lit Noes 2026. Super pumped and excited to don the glove again... 1, 2, guess who's coming for you... pic.twitter.com/jz5Cf294GO— Jackie Earle Haley (@jackieearle) April 1, 2025

Some fans did...

We have some sad news to share today, as the official Wings Hauser page on social media has revealed that the prolific character actor passed away over the weekend at the age of 77. As the post reads, “Movie icon Wings Hauser took flight in the arms of his film & music partner, Cali Lili Hauser at their studio this weekend.“

Known for having one of the coolest names in cinema history, Wings Hauser was actually born Gerald Dwight Hauser on December 12, 1947. “Wings” was part of a stage name (Wings Livinryte) he used for a 1975 folk music album called Your Love Keeps Me Off the Streets, and he was credited as Wings Livinryte when he appeared on an episode of the TV series Cannon that same year. After that, he moved on to calling himself Wings Hauser.

Hauser made his screen debut with an uncredited appearance in the 1967 film First to Fight.

Prolific character actor Wings Hauser has passed away at the age of 77.

“Movie icon Wings Hauser took flight in the arms of his film and music partner, Cali Lili Hauser, at their studio this weekend,” Hauser’s official Facebook page announced.

Born in Hollywood to Academy Award-winning father Dwight A. Hauser, Wings Hauser appeared in over 100 films and TV shows throughout his 58-year career.

His horror credits include Tales from the Hood, Rubber, Vice Squad, Mutant, Nightmare at Noon, The Wind, Watchers III, Pale Blood, The Carpenter, and an episode of “Freddy’s Nightmares.”

Outside the genre, Hauser appeared in films like The Insider, A Soldier’s Story, Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time, and Tough Guys Don’t Dance, which earned him an Independent Spirit Award

He also guest starred on such shows as “House,” “Criminal Minds,” “The Mentalist,” “Bones,” “Castle,” “Monk,” “CSI,” “Roseanne,” and “The A-Team.”

Behind the camera, Hauser worked as a screenwriter,...

Terror Vision Records has launched its 2025 vinyl subscription featuring six soundtracks making their vinyl debut:

The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972) composed by Jaime Mendoza-Nava (The Town That Dreaded Sundown) The Sender (1982) composed by Trevor Jones Cheerleader Camp (1988) composed by Joel Hamilton & Murielle Hamilton (Rush Week) Fire in the Sky (1993) composed by Mark Isham Cabin Fever (2002) composed by Angelo Badalamenti and Nathan Barr Immaculate (2024) composed by Will Bates

Priced at $185, the subscription includes all six releases on exclusive colored vinyl with hand-numbered packaging and a 2025 club tee.

The $225 VIP subscription includes all that plus a Terror Vision test pressing, a 2025 club tote bag, a 2025 turntable slipmat, and other goodies.

For non-subscribers, the scores will be available individually throughout the year on different color variants.

Terror Vision is celebrating 10 years of releasing horror soundtracks on vinyl, including The Monster Squad, The People Under the Stairs, Basket Case, Pet Sematary Two, Pontypool,...

Plot: The ultimate account of the Child’s Play film franchise and Chucky, a horror villain for the ages. With contributions from cast, crew, critics, historians, and experts, as well as clips, photographs, archival documents, behind-the-scenes footage, and more, experience the making-of story that proves you can’t keep a good guy down in a series of films that have created an icon.

Review: There are no better horror franchise documentaries than Crystal Lake Memories and Never Sleep Again. The in-depth looks at the Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th franchises are the definitive looks at their respective franchises. They provide unique interviews and insight into the horror productions we thought we knew everything about. Yet they manage to find new information! So I, like many fans, was ecstatic to see them put Chucky in their crosshairs. Given the series’ very unique history and 36-year run, there is so much information to parse from.

Though no one has been confirmed, several possible actors could replace Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street. Englund portrayed Kreuger in eight different feature film installments of the Elm Street franchise, as well as the television show, Freddy's Nightmares. Though Englund has retired from acting as Freddy, due to his age and the role demands, no other actor is yet set to replace the legend. There hasn't been an official update to the franchise in over a decade, with Englund's last appearance as Krueger being a guest role in The Goldbergs in 2018.

Unlike other slasher killers, like Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger speaks a lot, giving him quite the personality, full of iconic one-liners. This means finding a replacement for the villain is difficult, since fans of the franchise have a very clear idea of Freddy's personality. Freddy's personality is also established to...

Rock ‘n’ roll never dies. Sometimes, it even gets a second life. At least that’s the case for 1986 cult horror favorite Trick or Treat, as Synapse Films has delivered a surprise Halloween treat by launching preorders for the horror film’s 4K world premiere.

The limited special edition 4K release of Trick or Treat is strictly limited to a total of 6666 units!

The good news is that preorders are open now, with the release shipping as soon as next week, October 27.

The first feature from award-winning filmmaker Charles Martin Smith (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), the film featured a cast of soon to be household names including Marc Price (“Family Ties”) and Doug Savant (“Melrose Place”). Alongside rock icons Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne, Trick or Treat blends the best of the 1980s metal scene with the decade’s tongue and cheek take on the genre.

If you’ve never...

The 1980s is a decade widely associated with superb horror films and TV shows, many of which deserve to be revisited now and then. Many horror TV shows during the '80s fell into the anthology format, which allowed for the creation of more hair-raising stories to be told within each season. Horror anthology series also work well with the bingeing model. Audiences don't have to invest a great part of their attention and time to drawn out stories. Instead, viewers can easily tune into any episodes they prefer without having missed important details.

However, not every '80s horror TV show is an anthology. Shows like Beetlejuice and Werewolf have entertaining premises that carry out over a handful of seasons and are easy to binge. A perk of going back and bingeing these series from the '80s is seeing several influential horror writers, directors, and actors get creative...

Over the course of a screen acting career that stretched across fifty years, Charles Cyphers racked up 100 credits, but he’s best known for his collaborations with John Carpenter, having appeared in the director’s Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, Someone’s Watching Me!, Elvis, The Fog, and Escape from New York. His most popular character was Sheriff Leigh Brackett from the 1978 Halloween, a role he reprised in 1981’s Halloween II and, after a forty year absence from the Halloween franchise, 2021’s Halloween Kills. Sadly, we’ve lost this great character actor, as Variety reports that Cyphers has passed away “from a brief illness” at the age of 85.

Cyphers’ manager Chris Roe confirmed his passing to Variety and provided the following statement: “Charles was a lovable and sensitive man. He always had the best stories, and you got a full performance while he told you. He was a close friend and...

Former James Bond actor George Lazenby, who is best known for playing 007 in 1969s On Her Majestys Secret Service, has announced his retirement from both acting and public appearances. The 84-year-old Bond star will forever be best recognized for being the second actor to play the iconic secret agent, taking over from Sean Connery. Lazenby took to social media to make the announcement, sharing the following statement:

This hasnt been an easy decision but its time to announce my retirement from work. Therefore, I wont be doing any more acting or making public appearances, doing any more interviews or signing any more autographs as of today. Its been a fun ride but getting older is...no fun. I would like to thank my manager and friend, Anders Frejdh, for helping me since 2013 - the best representative I ever had. I can now concentrate on spending more time with my family.

We don’t get a ton of Gothic or romanticized horror anymore, at least not in the sense of the old days. The old days had a bit of a stretch too as I’m talking about the Universal classics and Val Lewton all the way through at least the early run of Hammer Films. To that end, what creature is more romantic or at least romanticized than Dracula and any of his vampire off shoots? While many of the vampiric screen adaptations have that feel to them from Frank Langella to Gary Oldman and David Bowie sandwiched in between, there are few vampires who embody that ideology more than those found in the writings of Anne Rice. While her novel Interview with the Vampire came out all the way back in 1976, it would take nearly 20 years for the adaptation to hit theaters with the movie of the same name...

More than thirty new stars are going to be added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2025 (and into 2026), with the new batch of honorees who will be receiving stars having been chosen by the Hollywood Chamber’s Board of Directors. Variety reports that that honorees include Jessica Chastain, Bill Duke, Emilio Estevez, Colin Farrell, Jane Fonda, Nia Long, Lisa Lu, Glynn Turman, Toni Vaz, Fran Drescher, Lauren Graham, Bill Nye, Molly Shannon, Sherri Shepherd, Courtney B. Vance, Chris Wallace, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Misty Copeland, Alan Cumming, Adam Carolla, Fantasia, Depeche Mode, Los Bukis, The B-52s, Green Day, The Isley Brothers, Busta Rhymes, George Strait, Keith Urban, War, Prince, David Beckham, and Orel Hershiser… but the two honorees that stand out more than any others on this list for us here in the Arrow in the Head horror section of JoBlo are character actor Robert Englund and legendary filmmaker John Carpenter!

From one 1999 horror remake to another. After rewatching The Haunting with eyes that were both more critical and 25 years older, it got me thinking about the other remake that came out that year. One that was a remake of a far sillier movie and that was the first effort from a new studio, namely Dark Castle Entertainment. The original was from a far less dark castle in that of schlock and gimmick purveyor William Castle and it starred Vincent Price as a man offering strangers money to stay in an allegedly haunted house for a night. While The Haunting failed on multiple levels to improve with age, how does House on Haunted Hill (watch it Here) look after a quarter of a century? Does its cheesy yet graphic tone feel at home in the time of A24 and elevated horror or should it forfeit its 1 million dollar check and leave the cursed grounds forever.

Al Onorato, co-founder of the Casting Society of America and a casting director on such series as “Bewitched,” “Police Story,” “Fame” and “The Patridge Family,” has died. He was 88.

Onorato died April 21 in Los Angeles, his nephew Chris Onorato announced.

Onorato founded the Casting Society of America (then known as the American Society of Casting Directors) with Mike Fenton and Joe Reich in 1982. He and Jerold Franks — his Onorato/Franks Independent Casting partner — won the CSA’s Artios Award for best casting for a comedy film for 1989’s “Bagdad Café.” At the 34th annual Artios Awards in 2019, Onorato received a lifetime achievement award from the organization.

“Casting Society mourns the passing of Al Onorato, whose passion and dedication and love for casting was pivotal in co-founding our organization in 1982 Al helped build what CSA is today — a global organization with over 1200 members and a resource for the entertainment industry worldwide,...

The Phantom of the Opera is sometimes considered one of the Universal Monsters. I get it. From the 1925 version that gave us one of the most infamous unmasking sequences ever courtesy of the great Lon Chaney Sr., through the Hammer iteration with Herbert Lom, all the way up to the 2004 film that gave a lot of us our intro to Gerard Butler. Speaking of that movie, its inspiration and reason for its existence was the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical that premiered in October of 1986 and has had runs all the way through as recently as 2021. 1989 was the beginning of its U.S. tour and we got not one but Two Phantom movies that year. Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge is cheesy and may just be more well known due to our friend Joe Bob featuring it on the Last Drive In recently. Here in the JoBlo Horror kitchen today...

Robert Englund steps into the director’s chair with ‘976-Evil,’ a dark dive into Satanism and demonology where a bullied outcast uses an occult hotline to bite back.

“Out of the darkness and into light, comes your horrorscope on this dark and stormy night.”

Robert Englund is a name who needs no introduction in the horror community. He’s played Freddy Krueger in eight A Nightmare on Elm Street movies and has brought life to one of the horror genre’s greatest icons. Englund’s incomparable work as Krueger would be enough to forever make him a celebrity, but he’s had a rich horror career that’s included multiple roles in Tobe Hooper films and, more recently, his standout performance as Victor Creel in the streaming phenomenon, Stranger Things. Englund will always be Freddy Krueger, but it’s curious to consider how his career would have been different if...

You didn’t really think Halloween Ends would be the end of the Halloween franchise, did you? That movie may have brought an end to one version of Michael Myers, but the filmmakers can always go back to an earlier iteration – or create a whole new one. Last October, we learned that Halloween will continue with a TV series that Miramax is developing with the company they share the rights to the franchise with, Malek Akkad’s Trancas International Films. Now Miramax’s Marc Helwig has given Deadline an update on the project, revealing that it’s a “creative reset” that takes the franchise back to the original film, John Carpenter’s 1978 classic.

Helwig said the Halloween TV series is “on a fast track, it’s a big priority for us. We’ve had lots of exciting conversations in recent months with a number of really talented people, and I...

A spinoff of the film franchise, “Freddy’s Nightmares” was an anthology series starring the original Freddy Krueger, Robert Englund. Airing from 1988 to 1990, each episode told a different story of a dark rooted and grim nature that takes place in this fictitious town on Elm Street, and now a brand new book will take us deeper into the series than ever before.

Death Cult Press has announced Welcome to Primetime from authors Geoff Turner, Henrique Couto and David Denover, up for pre-order now ahead of April 1, 2024 release.

“This collection features breakdowns of each episode in the series, interviews with the show’s creators and a selected history of the bizarre world of horror anthology television.”

You can pre-order three different book bundles from Death Cult Press now.

“Freddy’s Nightmares” picked up with where the films left off, with Krueger terrorizing the citizens of his hometown and taking his revenge out through their dreams.

So, you’ve seen every film in the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise – but have you seen every episode of the anthology TV series Freddy’s Nightmares? Night of the Living Tapes author Geoff Turner, filmmaker Henrique Couto, and Couto’s frequent collaborator David Denoyer have, and now they’ve put together a book called Welcome to Primetime: The Unofficial Freddy’s Nightmare Companion! Copies are available for pre-order through Death Cult Press and are expected to ship out the week of April 1st.

Freddy’s Nightmares ran for two seasons, from 1988 to 1990, with a total of 44 episodes. Robert Englund appeared in full Freddy Krueger mode in every episode of the show, in which Freddy, the dream serial killer, hosts an anthology of stories set in Springwood.

Directors who contributed to Freddy’s Nightmares include Tobe Hooper, Mick Garris, Tom McLoughlin, Ken Wiederhorn, William Malone, Gilbert Adler, and Dwight H. Little, and one...

If you’ve been keeping up with The Test of Time, you have probably learned what the rules are in terms of what we tackle. Those rules, of course, are that there are no rules whatsoever and we cover whatever sounds good or we think would be an interesting topic. In the Mouth of Madness (watch it Here) came out in Italy in late 1994 and that means, gulp, that movie is now 30 years old. It came during an interesting time in the master of horrors career when he was running flop after flop and being disappointed by studios interference and stars that weren’t willing to be true collaborators. It’s the ending of a loose trilogy and in some people’s estimation his last great film. Is In the Mouth of Madness a tale that stands the Test of Time, or should it be put in the bargain bin...

Friday the 13th: The Series was a spinoff that strangely didn't feature Jason Voorhees. Previous attempts to replace Jason proved unsuccessful. Ultimately, Friday the 13th: The Series had to establish its own unique identity without the Crystal Lake killer.

The Friday the 13th franchise has plenty of odd history and fascinating tangents, but many still ponder why Jason Voorhees doesn’t appear in Friday the 13th: The Series. It isn’t uncommon for horror movies to get television spinoffs. Whether it’s Freddy’s Nightmares, Chucky, or Tremors, they all tend to feature their iconic antagonists in some form. However, Friday the 13th: The Series stood out as a curiosity, as people showed up expecting Jason Voorhees and received something else entirely. There’s a lot of confusion behind Friday the 13th: The Series, leaving viewers to wonder what connections it has to the movies, how this show came to be,...

Halloween Ends may have killed iconic slasher Michael Myers off on the big screen, but there’s really no stopping a successful horror franchise. Last October, Malek Akkad’s Trancas International Films secured a deal with Miramax Television to develop and co-produce a Halloween TV series… and one person who would be interested in working on the show is Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers director Dwight H. Little, who has racked up a lot of TV experience since his days of working on Halloween 4. There’s also another Halloween project Little would like to work on and has even pitched: a direct sequel to Halloween 4 that would see the return of Danielle Harris and Ellie Cornell as Jamie and her foster sister Rachel!

The subject of Halloween came up while Little was speaking with our friends at Bloody Disgusting to promote his memoir Still Rolling: Inside the Hollywood...

A fan-made poster led to speculation that a new Nightmare on Elm Street 8 could arrive in theaters in 2024. 

Is Nightmare on Elm Street 8 Happening?

A rumor emerged on social media that showcased a poster and synopsis suggesting that a brand-new installment of Nightmare on Elm Street titled Freddy's Nightmares is set to premiere in 2024. 

Read full article on The Direct.

Freddy Krueger's quotes in the Nightmare on Elm Street series became more comedic over time, transitioning from a straight horror movie to a source of comic relief along with gore and kills. The rebooted Freddy Krueger in the 2010 film was even more terrifying, portrayed as a child molester, delivering disturbing and horrifying lines. Freddy's one-liners showcased his dark abilities, disdain for religion, growing powers, and his belief in his own immortality throughout the films.

The Freddy Krueger quotes from the A Nightmare on Elm Street series are one thing that makes him one of the most iconic characters from the slasher genre. Freddy Krueger has appeared in a total of nine films since 1984, including a remake in 2010, as well as a TV series called Freddy’s Nightmares. Freddy was a child murderer who killed 20 children but avoided prison thanks to a technicality in the court system. However, he ended up...

Iconic horror movie franchises like Poltergeist and Halloween are receiving TV spin-offs and adaptations. Television can give Halloween and Poltergeist new life while other scary movies take the box office reins. Bringing properties like Halloween to television can repair the legacies left behind by shows like Freddy's Nightmares.

The horror genre has been a staple of movies for decades, especially when it comes to certain franchises. This is most obvious in slasher properties such as Halloween and Child's Play, which are a few of the franchises that have either jumped to television or are about to. This might sound like a cash grab recipe for disaster, but it's actually the perfect move for these horror staples.

The television medium allows new possibilities that simply can't be done in movies. This includes exploring the characters, the killers and the mythology in a scope beyond a mere one to two hours. Likewise,...

Today is of course Halloween and we just wanted to take a minute to remind you that the 1986 cult classic Trick or Treat is now streaming on the Bd-powered Screambox!

This marks the first time the new restoration from Synapse Films has Ever been seen, and it’s also the first time the movie has Ever made its way onto a streaming service.

It’s our Halloween treat to you. Stream Trick or Treat exclusively on Screambox tonight!

Back in 1986, director Charles Martin Smith introduced the world to rocker Sammi Curr in Trick or Treat, which has gone on to become a true cult classic over the years.

Red Shirt Pictures recently acquired the incredibly rare horror gem and provided it with a brand new 4K restoration that will receive a 4K Uhd & Blu-ray Special Edition at a later date.

Expect that release soon from Synapse Films. We’ll be sure to keep you posted.

In 1978, John Carpenter released his iconic slasher movie Halloween. Following the story of masked killer Michael Myers and his return to Haddonfield, where he left a trail of bodies in his wake. Culminating in a harrowing confrontation with Laurie Strode, the movie has gone down as one of the greatest slashers in horror history, and Michael has earned a spot as one of the greatest horror icons. However, there are many great villains of the genre scarier than Michael.

Michael Myers has some fierce competition when it comes to his fellow on-screen horror villains, who range from other slashers to ghosts and everything in between. The rich diversity of horror villains is what keeps the genre so entertaining, and plenty of horror creators love being able to outdo their rivals with the latest, scariest villain. Michael may be an icon of his genre, but plenty of villains have offered up...

Back in 1986, director Charles Martin Smith introduced the world to rocker Sammi Curr in Trick or Treat, which has gone on to become a true cult classic. The film has Never Before been available to stream, but Bloody Disgusting changes that this Halloween.

Cineverse is giving horror fans a whole new reason to scream this spooky season, as they have acquired the 1986 horror cult classic Trick or Treat from Red Shirt Pictures/Synapse Films. As promised, the company has premiered Trick or Treat just in time for Halloween weekend exclusively on Bd’s Screambox. The film is available for streaming right now!

This marks the first time the new restoration from Synapse Films has Ever been seen, and it’s also the first time the movie has Ever made its way onto a streaming service.

Red Shirt Pictures recently acquired the incredibly rare horror gem and provided it with a...

What are you afraid of? It’s only rock ‘n roll. Decades before Michael Dougherty released Trick ‘r Treat there was Trick or Treat, a 1986 horror movie directed by Charles Martin Smith that introduced the world to undead rocker Sammi Curr. The cult classic has Never Before been available to stream, but Bloody Disgusting is changing that Tomorrow.

Cineverse is giving horror fans a whole new reason to scream this spooky season, as they announce the acquisition of the 1986 horror classic Trick or Treat from Red Shirt Pictures/Synapse Films. The company will premiere Trick or Treat just in time for Halloween weekend exclusively on Screambox. The film begins streaming this Friday, October 27!

This will be the first time the new restoration from Synapse Films has Ever been seen, and it’s also the first time the movie has Ever made its way onto a streaming service.

Red Shirt Pictures...

What are you afraid of? It’s only rock ‘n roll. Decades before Michael Dougherty released Trick ‘r Treat there was Trick or Treat, a 1986 horror movie directed by Charles Martin Smith that introduced the world to undead rocker Sammi Curr. The cult classic has Never Before been available to stream, but Bloody Disgusting is changing that this Halloween.

Cineverse is giving horror fans a whole new reason to scream this spooky season, as they announce the acquisition of the 1986 horror classic Trick or Treat from Red Shirt Pictures/Synapse Films. The company will premiere Trick or Treat just in time for Halloween weekend exclusively on Screambox. The film begins streaming this Friday, October 27!

This will be the first time the new restoration from Synapse Films has Ever been seen, and it’s also the first time the movie has Ever made its way onto a streaming service.

Synapse Films...

A Nightmare on Elm Street could have had a prequel, but it wouldn't have worked. The comedic aspect of Freddy Krueger's character works well because it comes from his powers, which would be difficult to incorporate with a human version of the character. Fans did not respond well to the darker side of Freddy Krueger, as it made the remake less entertaining and humorless, so a prequel exploring that angle would likely receive similar feedback.

With the Crystal Lake prequel fast approaching, it's hard not to think of what A Nightmare on Elm Street could do with a similar concept. Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) has a well-thought-out origin story that has haunted fans since his early days. When he was alive, Freddy was a child murderer. The parents of the children he killed banded together and burned him alive. Freddy then looked to get revenge on the parents by...

The episode of The Black Sheep covering The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning was Written and Narrated by Andrew Hatfield, Edited by Brandon Nally, Produced by Lance Vlcek and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

When did the Texas Chainsaw movies get so muddled with so many timelines? It’s not a hard thing to do. People get lost in Texas and end up victims of Leatherface and his family. I’m not saying there shouldn’t be a story line or a variation on things from time to time, hell, that’s what made Freddy, Michael, and Jason so popular. You could have even done something like the legacy sequel for Halloween, at least the first one. Oh wait, you did, and it didn’t turn out well with characters that made terrible decisions and weren’t likeable in the first place? Oh yeah, I remember that one.

Who doesn’t remember the bed vomiting up massive amounts of blood after swallowing a drowsy teenager? Or a human marionette whose strings were actually veins that a monster suddenly cut with razor-sharp knives for fingers and the innocent boy falling to his demise? Or this same monster using a demonic Nintendo power glove to kill someone trapped inside a video game?

Wes Craven’s creation of Freddy Krueger and the Nightmare on Elm Street movies still feel important today. The burned entity with a lethal glove is one of the most iconic slasher killers of horror history, and this is one of the franchises whose integrity has always been respected story-wise. Unlike Halloween, there are no experiments with the roots of evil and psychosis here — Freddy’s malevolence is significant enough to always feed the subconscious, and it’s how he holds an unsettling agency in our minds. Yes,...

A couple weeks ago, we heard that Malek Akkad’s Trancas International Films was shopping the TV rights to the Halloween franchise around Hollywood, looking to get a TV series set up. Trancas is the sole owner of the franchise’s television rights, while Miramax co-owns the film rights with them – and at the time, Miramax was in a bidding war with A24 (which already has a Friday the 13th series called Crystal Lake in development) over the rights to make the show. Now Deadline reports that Miramax has come out the winner of that bidding war, with Miramax Television securing “a wide-ranging deal with Trancas to develop and co-produce a Halloween TV series, which also includes a first-look agreement on other television projects for the international marketplace.”

Deadline goes on to say that the Halloween TV series is “envisioned to potentially launch a cinematic universe spanning film and television.

Over the course of a directing career that has lasted almost forty years so far, Dwight H. Little has brought us some very cool movies, with his credits including The Phantom of the Opera (starring Robert Englund), the Steven Seagal vehicle Marked for Death, Rapid Fire (starring Brandon Lee), Free Willy 2, the Wesley Snipes mystery Murder at 1600, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, Tekken, and my favorite of the Halloween sequels, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. He has also directed a whole lot of television, taking the helm of episodes of shows like Freddy’s Nightmares, Millennium, The X-Files, The Practice, 24, Prison Break, Castle, Nikita, Arrow, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Sleepy Hollow, From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, Bones, Scorpion, and 9-1-1. Now he has written a memoir called Still Rolling: Inside the Hollywood Dream Factory – and copies can be purchased at This Link!

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The rights to the Halloween franchise are up for sale, sparking a competitive bidding war among studios and streaming platforms. The slasher franchise has a long history, with multiple sequels and reboots over the years, including a recent trilogy that concluded in 2022. Miramax is currently seeking buyers for the Halloween franchise, with the option to adapt it into either a movie or a television series.

The rights to the Halloween franchise are reportedly back on the market. There are several lines of continuity in the slasher franchise, which introduced iconic killer Michael Myers in John Carpenter's original 1978 movie. Seven sequels within various continuities were released though 2002's Halloween: Resurrection, which was then followed by Rob Zombie's 2007 remake and its sequel. Most recently, director and co-writer David Gordon Green teamed with Blumhouse for a trilogy of movies between 2018 and 2022 that ostensibly closed the chapter of the franchise that followed...

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Although Wes Craven's 1984 film "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is typically lumped in with slasher movies -- it came out right when the genre was cresting in popularity -- it doesn't quite follow the same structure as its contemporaries in the horror genre. The "Nightmare" movies, because they take place largely within dreams, are slightly more cerebral, bizarre, or imaginative than many of the stalk-n-stab movies that infested theaters at the time. The series also attracted interesting and notable directors who went on to other projects. Chuck Russell directed part 3. Renny Harlin director part 4. Stephen Hopkins directed part 5. And Rachel Talalay directed "The Final Nightmare." 

"A Nightmare on Elm Street" marathons are common around Halloween, and steamrolling through all nine extant "Nightmare" films is an experience the series' fans have likely forced themselves through at least once. Having done it,...

Fast and Furious star Sung Kang recently revealed that he would jump at the chance to play horror icon Freddy Krueger from the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise.

Collider recently released an interview with Kang -- who stars as Han Lue in the Fast and Furious franchise -- to promote his feature directorial debut, Shaky Shivers, an upcoming film that pays homage to horror classics like An American Werewolf in London. During the interview, Kang was asked which horror franchise he'd love to join, revealing that A Nightmare on Elm Street would be at the top of the list. "I'd love to play Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street. That character was just so fun," Kang said. "That sweater, to this day, is so iconic, and the knife fingers. That'd be on the bucket list for sure."

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Freddy Krueger has a choice to make. On one side is Lori (Monica Keena), the woman he had been antagonizing throughout the movie Freddy vs. Jason, along with her wounded boyfriend Will (Jason Ritter). On the other is Kia (Kelly Rowland), Lori’s grouchy friend.

After dithering for a moment, Freddy (Robert Englund) looks at the Kia and smiles. “How sweet,” he says to the Black woman. “Dark meat.”

Remembering seeing the movie when it was released 20 years ago, Kumail Nanjiani described the audience’s groans at that line. “People were disappointed in Freddy Krueger,” Nanjiani recalled. “We’re okay with you murdering children with your needle gloves,” he quipped. “But racism?”

Nanjiani’s bit captures the public perception of Freddy when Freddy vs Jason premiered on August 15, 2003. Even though the character officially died in 1991’s Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, the terrifying monster of Wes Craven’s 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street...

Mark Patton has a brilliant idea on how the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise should continue. Patton starred alongside Kim Myers in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, which made a profit at the box office but was widely panned upon release. Patton’s poor treatment behind the scenes and the inappropriate comedic use of homoerotic sub-text forced the actor to leave Hollywood for nearly three decades, but he is slowly making a comeback. Freddy’s Revenge is also now more widely appreciated today than it was during the transphobic times of the '80s.

When asked by Screen Rant at Mad Monster Party Arizona if he would consider returning to the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, Patton confirmed that he would and also gave an idea of how Freddy Krueger could return. The actor stated that he thinks Ryan Murphy should be hired and give Freddy...

Plot: An alcoholic and drug addict, Richard is taken into the wilderness to detox – but once they’re out in the woods, he and his group of friends are attacked by a madman.

Review: Hutch Dano is the grandson of legendary character actor Royal Dano and the son of actor Rick Dano, so it’s no surprise that he got into acting himself. He has racked up over twenty screen credits in the last thirteen years, including playing Zeke on 77 episodes of the Disney series Zeke and Luther – and now that he has made his feature directing debut, he has brought several of his former co-stars onto the project with him. Dano stars in his film As Certain as Death, which he also scripted, alongside his Zombeavers co-star Cortney Palm, who was also in Disappearance with him and Guy Wilson, his Den Brother co-star David Lambert, and his Zeke and Luther co-star Daniel Curtis Lee,...

The trailer for Natty Knocks, which Dwight H. Little directed, has been released. The film tells the tale of "A small-town babysitter and the kids she is looking after struggle to survive a serial killer named Abner Honeywell." Starring in the film are three horror legends. Bill Moseley, Danielle Harris, and Robert Englund.

In the past, Little worked with Harris on Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, where the actor had her breakout role as Jaime Lloyd. Little also worked with Englund on a more horror-centric adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera, released in 1989, and an episode of Freddy's Nightmares. The latter was hosted by Freddy Kruger, Englund's most famous role.

Natty Knocks also isn't the first time that Harris worked on the same movie along with her costars. She and Englund worked on the first Urban Legends movie as Tosh Guaneri, the main character's goth roommate, and Professor William Wexler,...