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‘Never Sleep Again’ Website Launched, New Horror’s Hallowed Grounds!
The official website has now been launched for Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, the forthcoming A Nightmare on Elm Street documentary. The site features an array of goodies ranging from behind-the-scenes goodies to inside info. In addition, Bloody Disgusting is proud to reveal that Sean Clark is off to film a new episode of “Horror’s Hallowed Grounds”, which will be featured on the forthcoming DVD release! Details below.
Production started Monday on a brand new episode of “Horror’s Hallowed Grounds” covering the film A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). It has been almost 2 years since Sean Clark and crew have filmed a video version of the popular horror locations articles. Sean explains why it has been so long.
“Quite honestly I had all but given up on doing any more episodes and just sticking to doing the written articles in HorrorHound Magazine and Bloody-Disgusting. I got really busy making my film ‘The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond’ and it took my focus away from trying to get HHG picked up as a series. I get e-mails constantly from horror fans asking me why none of these so-called horror channels have jumped on making this a series and I don’t understand it either. When you read any of the reviews for the Halloween 25 Years of Terror DVD they all point out the HHG episode as a favorite part of the package.”
So why make a new episode now?
“Well Andrew Kasch and Buz Wallick are my partners in the video version of HHG. It just so happens that they are part of the Nightmare on Elm Street documentary Never Sleep Again and brought the idea to Dan Farrands and Thommy Hutson who all agreed it would be a great addition to the DVD package. So Dan contacted me and asked me if I wanted to do it and of course my answer was yes.”
So what do the fans have to look forward to this time around?
“This is going to be our best episode yet. We have a little more time than before to get things right and we have access to quite a few cast members that will be appearing in the episode too. Monday we filmed the interior of the high school and Leslie Hoffman aka the hall monitor came by and reprised her role. It’s going to be a lot of fun and informative. The hard core Elm Street fans will love it.”
Watch for more soon, check out tons of Horror’s Hallowed Grounds articles over in our articles section, including his inside look at the original shooting locations for Elm Street.
Final Destination Bloodlines filmmakers Zach Lipovsky & Adam Stein return to their mutant roots with Freaks Part II, their follow-up to 2018’s Freaks. The first look has arrived ahead of the film’s world premiere.
Freaks Part II is the official closing film of Fantasia, where it will make its world premiere.
In the sequel, “Several years after a traumatic escape, we meet Mary (Amanda Crew, Freaks) and her daughter Chloe (Lorelei Olivia Mote, Riddle of Fire) as they live on the road, hiding their powers and identities. They are hunted by the Abnormal Defense Force, paramilitary police that specialize in ruthlessly exterminating ‘freaks‘ like them. Mary is fueled by revenge, determined to find the ADF officer (Lili Taylor, The Conjuring) who killed her first child.“
It’s not just the story that’s progressing with this sequel, but also the gore. Fantasia teases, “There’s also inventive gore – the most we’ve seen in a Canadian film in years – that punctuates the outstanding performances and serious subject matter.”
Mote takes over for Lexy Kolker, who played Chloe in the 2018 film that saw the young protagonist with growing powers confined to her home by an overprotective and paranoid father (Emile Hirsch).
Rafael Motamayor wrote in his review, “Freaks feels like an even more grounded, small-scale version of the X-Men, a sci-fi film filled with surprises, a message about parenthood and wanting to keep your child safe and isolated from the world, and a future star in Lexy Kolker.”
Lipovsky & Stein’s have a packed slate ahead, co-writing Gremlins 3 with Chris Columbus, directing the sci-fi survival film The Earthling for Columbia, directing the psychological horror film Long Lost for Amblin, and directing the sci-fi drama The Traveler for Paramount.