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[Remember This?] ‘Freddy Vs. Jason’ And Being Careful What You Wish For

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Posted by EvanDickson on May 17, 2013 @ 11:42am
Category: Movies / Editorials

Gremlins is being re-booted. Ghostbusters 3 is apparently being remade. I’m sure there’s a large audience for these somewhere out there, but after hearing from you guys it’s not necessarily people who make up the BD community. I think that’s a wise stance in some ways. I’m not saying these films can’t be good – it’s entirely possible that either one of them will turn out to be amazing – it just doesn’t seem likely.

A lot of this stems from simply looking at the components. How could it be good? What are we working with here? In the case of the above two movies (especially Gremlins) it’s sort of an unknown quantity at this point. But we do know that the way the current studio system functions, especially in regard to remakes, will make it difficult for these projects to sing in the way that their progenitors did. Hell, the Evil Dead remake did almost everything right in terms of studio approach and a lot of you still didn’t like it (not arguing with your opinions on this, just stating that they exist). It boils down to that, with these kinds of properties – or just even “wouldn’t this be awesome” concepts – we’re always looking at a “be careful what you wish for” scenario.

I suppose one of the first movies that got me thinking this way was Freddy Vs. Jason, which will celebrate its 10th anniversary this August. I still remember heading to the theater on opening night, full of excitement, thinking, “how could this NOT be great?!” Less than 2 hours later I left the theater shaking my head, singing an entirely different tune, “how could I have ever thought this was a good idea?” READ MORE

[Toys] NECA Readying Freddy’s Furnace!

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Posted by EvanDickson on April 26, 2013 @ 11:42am
Category: Movies / Images

Need a place to put all of your NECA Freddy Krueger figures? No worries! You can store them on their home turf in Freddy’s Furnace. It’s their first Nightmare On Elm Street diorama.

Per Figures it’s “Scaled for use with NECA’s 7-inch Freddy figures (sold separately), this iconic movie replica features a hinged door, LED light inside to simulate the flickering flames, and realistic weathering detail.”

It lists at $39.99 and can ne pre-ordered at BigBadToyStore and ToyWiz. READ MORE

[Modern Art] These Horror Movie Killers Would Look Great On My Wall

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Posted by Adam Dodd on April 24, 2013 @ 11:00am
Category: Games / Images

If I had to make a list of the top four horror movie killers, it’d include Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers and Pinhead. Ghostface comes in at a close fifth place, and of course there’s Chucky, Leatherface, Jigsaw, Hannibal Lecter — err, this isn’t the point. Deviant Artist Chris Fulton has done a fantastic job capturing their murderous charm, which I don’t find all that surprising after seeing his amazing Silent Hill art. After the break I have five of the top horror movie killers, and the mystery killer is quite possibly the most death-obsessed of them all.
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[BD Review] ‘A Nightmare On Elm Street Collection’ Gives Fans Reason To Upgrade

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Posted by Pat Torfe on March 05, 2013 @ 7:04pm
Category: Movies / Home Video

While I’ve always been partial to everyone’s favorite machete-wielding mongoloid, New Line’s first bad-boy has a special place in my blackened heart for his efforts. Ignoring the remake and a couple of his sophomore efforts, Freddy Krueger is (literally) the stuff nightmares are made of since 1984. While we await the franchise’s eventual resurrection, New Line has brought the Springwood Slasher’s efforts to high-definition with the Blu-Ray release of A Nightmare on Elm Street Collection. The DVD boxset released way back when was great when it was released, but it was time for an upgrade. So just how does the Blu-Ray set stack up to the original boxset?

Note to fans: This is the same Blu-Ray boxset that was a Best Buy exclusive since October 2012, so don’t freak out.

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[Random Cool] Back In 1987, Freddy Kruger Demanded Heavy Promotion For The ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors’ Home Video!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on November 14, 2012 @ 8:11am
Category: Movies / Videos

Released in theaters February 27, 1987, Chuck Russell’s A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors arrived on home video later that year to great hype. The first two had sold over 300k units (at the time the VHS copies were $100 and up), and home video distributor Media Home Entertainment was ready to give the franchise a major push.

I believe this may have been hiding on the original A Nightmare on Elm Street DVD box set as an extra feature (the bonus disc was a maze and it took hours to find everything), but Mr. Barkan brought it to my attention that it was now online. What we’ve posted below is Media Home Entertainment’s video rental promo that features Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger telling retailers why they must score some A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors units. It’s super hokey and cheesy, but it’s really cool to see what it was like back in the 80′s when distributors were trying to convince the almighty Blockbusters of the world to take their product.

“Welcome to prime time, bitch.” READ MORE

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The Dude Designs ’80s VHS Baddies Inspired Poster!!!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on October 16, 2012 @ 7:00pm
Category: Movies / Exclusives

EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK: Remember perusing the video store on a Friday night looking for something to watch? Back when the video store doubled as your own personal art gallery? Cult poster artist extraordinaire and horror film fiend The Dude Designs (Hobo With a Shotgun,The Inkeepers, They Live Blu-ray art) does and he’s paying homage to all things home video from the ’80s and early ’90s in this illustrated poster curated by Poster Collective. And naturally, he’s brought some icons of horror along for the ride as well.

Poster Collective presents The Dude’s FIRST EVER limited edition print available for sale to the human public (and/or all types of computer-trained dogs or monkeys.) The print will be available for sale on Friday, Oct 19th 2012 @ 10AM EST via Poster Collective at this link. The sale page will also include an in-depth interview with The Dude on his concept for this poster, VHS memories, video nasties in the UK and much more.

They’ve also teamed up with Keep A Breast (the leading youth-focused, global, nonprofit breast cancer organization) to whom we will donate $1 for each poster sold and an extra $50 if all the posters sell out. October is National Breast Cancer Prevention Month.

See the new poster below that features horror icons Chucky, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees! READ MORE

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[Remember This?] New Line Cinema Was Developing ‘Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on September 25, 2012 @ 1:22pm
Category: Movies / News

On Friday, October 22, 2004 Bloody Disgusting was sitting on major news that New Line Cinema was in final talks to acquire the rights to the “Ash” character (donned by Bruce Campbell) from Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead franchise (The Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness). By that Sunday, October 24, Ghost House Pictures’ J-Horror The Grudge remake had pulled in a whopping $39 million. Our sources tell us that Raimi didn’t even courtesy call New Line before immediately announcing that he’d next be producing a remake of The Evil Dead, his 1981 cult classic that started his career. The New Line deal died the second the remake announcement hit, which will finally come into fruition on April 12 when FilmDistrict releases the Fed Alvarez-directed reboot.

After that cringe worthy news broke, I was slipped the official treatment for New Line Cinema’s Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash (penned by New Line executive Jeff Katz), which was to be the sequel to their 2003 (August 15) blockbuster Freddy vs. Jason, which pitted A Nightmare On Elm Street‘s Freddy Krueger against Friday the 13th‘s Jason Voorhees. While the movie died that day, Wildstorm, Dynamite Entertainment, and DC Comics backed a six-issue comic book limited series that was released in November 2007 and ran until March 2008. The comic book series was written by James Kuhoric and illustrated by Jason Craig.

But before the comic was developed, Bloody Disgusting was, and still is, the sole source of the official treatment for Freddy vs. Jason. vs Ash, a film that should have become a horror fan’s new genre Bible. READ MORE

[SDCC '12] If You Needed One Reason To Attend: NECA Announces Black & White Freddy Krueger Figure Exclusive!!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on June 08, 2012 @ 3:47pm
Category: Movies / News

Say what? The San Diego Comic Con is so overbearing and overpopulated that it makes you want to vomit? Me too! But there’s something awesome lurking in the darkness of the sweat-stanked convention floor. NECA will be selling an exclusive black & white Freddy Krueger from the comic book sequence of A Nightmare on Elm Street V: The Dream Child! Now there’s a reason/excuse to stand in line and overpay for something.

“There’s never been a better argument in favor of insomnia than ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street,’ and for the latest in our series of San Diego Comic Con exclusive items, we’ve got the Gloved One himself, Freddy Krueger, as he appeared in the fifth installment of the franchise, ‘The Dream Child.’ The movie, which came out in 1989, has a cult within the cult of the larger series, and — what really matters — it features some of Freddy’s best kills ever.

Best of all might be Mark Gray. A comic book geek before it was cool to be a comic book geek, Mark fantasized about getting the girl, being the hero, etc. So what did Freddy do? Well, Freddy sucked him into a comic book world, to live out his worst nightmare, of course! He is the dream master, after all. Mark — brave and hopeless soul that he was — fought back by turning himself into his own superhero, The Phantom Prowler, and blowing Freddy to tiny little bits. It didn’t work, Freddy came back to life, turned Mark into paper and sliced him to shreds with his always-terrifying glove.

But, to honor Mark’s efforts and to honor the series as we always do, we’ve included an actual foldable, sliceable paper recreation of Mark Gray with this grayscale 7″ Freddy action figure, which captures the look of that death scene and the comic book world. What could be more perfect for SDCC than a superhero-destroying Freddy Krueger? Well, we don’t really know. That’s kind of why we made it.

Con-Exclusive B&W Comic Book Freddy also comes with a skateboard and his trademark hat, which he just wouldn’t be Freddy without.”

Someone pick this up for me, please?

[Random Cool] See Freddy, Jason And Michael Myers Grow Old!

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Posted by EvanDickson on March 25, 2012 @ 12:00am
Category: Movies / News

shiningtwinsland32412 [Random Cool] See Freddy, Jason And Michael Myers Grow Old!

Being a serial killer, retarded or otherwise, isn’t a job with a healthy retirement plan. And as good as you are, it’s lonely at the top. Freddy Krueger doesn’t have a special someone to grow old with, Jason doesn’t understand basic economics and the ladies never flocked to Michael Myers’ charming personality.

Photographer Federico Chiesa understands this and he’s crafted a new series of photographs that relay the fates of our favorite villains. The photos are part of his series “Horror Vacui” (latin for “fear of empty space“) and they’re something you’re definitely gonna want to check out.

Hit the jump to see the fates that await some of our most iconic evil-doers! READ MORE

[Toy Fair '12] Even More ‘A Nightmare On Elm Street’ Figures From NECA!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 12, 2012 @ 7:17pm
Category: Movies / News

[Toy Fair 12] Even More A Nightmare On Elm Street Figures From NECA!

I’m all over the place when it comes to NECA’s A Nightmare on Elm Street action figure line. I can’t recall what they’ve announced and what’s new, which is amazing because it means there are so many that I’ve lost count. A Nightmare-ish wet dream if you will?

I know for sure that we’ve already reported on the classic Nightmare on Elm Street Freddy with outstretched arms, regular arms, removable hat and interchangeable heads (classic and skinned face with exposed skull), Freddy’s Revenge Freddy with bladed finger nails, removable hat and interchangeable heads (regular and screaming face), the Dream Warriors Freddy with ripped sweater revealing Freddy’s victims, Elm Street house accessory and interchangeable heads (grimacing expression and crucifix damaged screaming face with a port hole that light can shine through), and the Dream Master Freddy with chest bursting with souls. WEW.

But wait, there’s MORE…

There’s a NEW A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors Freddy that features Freddy with needles to pump Taryn White full of juice, and the illustrious Freddy puppet. Then there’s the new A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child Freddy with elongated demon arm, an interchangeable head and BABY Freddy!

NECA is also working on a life-sized puppet from A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. AWESOME. There’s also word of a new Freddy vs Jason line, but I don’t see any images just yet. We’ll update if they appear. READ MORE

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[Interview] ‘Freddy’s Dead’ (For Now, Anyways…): Director Rachel Talalay!

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Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on November 14, 2011 @ 7:15pm
Category: Movies / Exclusives

[Interview] Freddys Dead (For Now, Anyways...): Director Rachel Talalay!

Overseeing the sixth and supposedly final chapter of the world’s second highest grossing horror franchise of all time is a hell of a role to fill – just ask Rachel Talalay, the woman charged with hanging up the old fedora hat and glove (at least until three years later when Wes Craven would return to the franchise with New Nightmare). Before Talay directed Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare for New Line, she produced two of the franchise-best sequels, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master.

This Elm Street fan boy was lucky enough to have a quick chat with her on her problems with the recent remake, how the Dream Warriors production nearly killed her, on Englund vs. Haley, while she also reflects on how the all important “final” Nightmare could have gone a lot differently… READ MORE

Freddy Krueger Is Finally Available In Mortal Kombat! Let Us Celebrate With Another Video

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Posted by BurnTheBlueSky on August 10, 2011 @ 3:25am
Category: Games / Videos

All you video game horror nerds have been rolling around in your graves waiting for Freddy to finally come out for download on Mortal Kombat. Well, stop rolling around and get to your consoles because Freddy is waiting for you! Check out his vignette below. They aren’t just throwing him into the game, but gave him a sweet back story as to why he is in the game and why he has 2 claws.

You can buy Freddy for $4.99 on the Playstation Network, or 400 Microsoft Boo Hoo It’s Not The Original Freddy points on Xbox Live. Freddy comes with a complete move-set, an arcade ladder story ending and two fatalities. READ MORE

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