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You’ll Love Don Mancini’s Fun Idea for ‘Child’s Play on Elm Street’

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We absolutely cannot wait to see Cult of Chucky, headed to unrated Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital on October 3rd. The film was written and directed by franchise creator Don Mancini, who’s been making the rounds in an effort to promote the forthcoming release.

Don’s most recent stop on the promotional train was the podcast Necronomicast, where he dug, among many other things, into his wacky idea for a Child’s Play/Nightmare on Elm Street crossover film. Mind you, Don has laid out the general idea in the past, but it’s so much fun that we wanted to share it with those who have maybe never heard it.

He calls it… Child’s Play on Elm Street!

I’ve talked about this a lot over the years and it’s actually an idea that I think is cool and doable. It’s just… it would require arranging all the legal red tape between two different studios. But I think Chucky versus Freddy would be awesome,” Mancini explained. “Because they both have distinct personalities, and they both talk, they would be a really fun double act.”

Mancini continued, “My idea for the movie is to do it as a horror movie version of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. It’s called Child’s Play on Elm Street. Chucky ends up in the bedroom of a house on Elm Street. And Freddy meets him there. And they’re, like, fans of each other. So they have this rapport. But then they realize Elm Street isn’t big enough for the two of them. It only can contain one killer.”

As Mancini has explained in the past, the basic premise would be Chucky and Freddy trying to outdo one another: who can kill more teens before the sun comes up?

Granted, it’ll likely never happen. But it sure is a fun pitch!

Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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New ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Movie in the Works from Director Lindsey Anderson Beer

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Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?

The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.

THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”

You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.

The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.

More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.

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