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Chicago’s Flashback Weekend Hosting Massive ‘Elm Street’ Reunion
Horror legend Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger) headlines a major A Nightmare On Elm Street series reunion featuring celebrity guests from each of the eight Elm Street films including Heather Langenkamp (Elm Street 1, 3, & 7), Amanda Wyss and Ronee Blakley (Elm Street 1), Joann Willette (Elm Street 2), Lisa Wilcox (Elm Street 4 & 5), Brooke Bundy (Elm Street 3 & 4), Tuesday Knight (Elm Street 4), Danny Hassel (Elm Street 4 & 5), Brooke Theiss (Elm Street 4), Andras Jones (Elm Street 4), Toy Newkirk (Elm Street 4), Kelly Jo Minter (Elm Street 5), Ricky Dean Logan (Elm Street 6), Ken Kirzinger (Jason from Freddy vs. Jason), Katharine Isabelle (Freddy vs. Jason), and Jesse Hutch (Freddy vs. Jason).
Other major guests include the legendary Lance Henriksen (Aliens, Near Dark, Pumpkinhead) and pop culture icons Sean Patrick Flanery and David Della Rocca (The Boondock Saints), Curtis Armstrong (“Booger”) and Don Gibb (“Ogre”) from Revenge of the Nerds, Lew Temple (“The Walking Dead”, The Devil’s Rejects), with more guests to be announced.
Special events include a giant screen outdoor movie showing of A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) introduced by Robert Englund and the cast. Chicago Horror Host legend Svengoolie (Rich Koz) will host the annual Sinister Visions Costume contest. Special parties each evening including a Costume Contest with prizes and celebrity guest appearances, and a wild party featuring illusionist Ron Fitzgerald and Burlesque.
Bloody Disgusting and director Tony Wash will be screening WORLD OF DEATH episodes and give away prizes throughout the weekend.
Flashback Weekend Chicago Horror Con also features a huge vendor’s room, celebrity guest panels, and screenings throughout the weekend. Tickets are now on sale. For additional details visit http://www.flashbackweekend.com
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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