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Kane Hodder Reveals the Surprising Way He Had a Cameo in ‘Freddy vs. Jason’
I’ve seen the film a few dozen times and never noticed this.
One of the bummers of Freddy vs. Jason is that it brought back Robert Englund but not Kane Hodder, as it was seemingly the perfect opportunity to bring Englund and Hodder together for the mash-up fans had truly been begging for. Hodder was instead replaced by Ken Kirzinger, who himself was a Jason Takes Manhattan stuntman.
But believe it or not, Kane Hodder actually does appear in Freddy vs. Jason!
Speaking with We Got This Covered, Hodder just told us something we never knew.
“They say I wasn’t in Freddy vs. Jason. The filmmakers didn’t even know it, but I was in that movie,” Hodder told the site. “There was a scene where they’re at the insane asylum or whatever, the hospital, and there’s a movie playing on a TV set – and it happens to be Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3.”
He continued, “And there’s a scene of Leatherface doing something, and that’s actually me as Leatherface. I was the stunt double for R.A. Mihailoff for that movie and I was stunt coordinator. And so, they’re trying not to to put me in the movie, and I was still in it and they didn’t even know it.”
Indeed, Chainsaw Massacre 3 is briefly featured in the background of a Westin Hills scene that begins at 20:37. And yup, that’s Kane Hodder as Leatherface in the scene!
How crazy is that?!
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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