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Celebrate Robert Englund’s Birthday By Watching This 1989 ‘Elm Street’ Doc!

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Today, June 6, 2017, is Robert Englund’s 70th birthday.

Horror icons just don’t get any more iconic than Robert Englund, whose 40+ year career is still going strong today. Of course, Englund is most known for playing the character of Freddy Krueger so memorably across eight films that no other actor will probably ever be able to successfully lay claim to the role, but his work extends well beyond the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. In fact, our own Trace Thurman spotlighted 7 of Englund’s best non-Freddy roles on this very day last year, in celebration of his 69th birthday.

How are we celebrating Englund’s birthday this year? Personally speaking, I decided to bust out my VHS copy of the 1989 documentary The Making of a Nightmare, which was released by United American Video. To date, the 50-minute doc has never made its way onto DVD or Blu-ray, but the good news is that it can be found over on YouTube in its entirety.

And we’re embedding it here for your viewing pleasure!

The Making of a Nightmare was released in conjunction with A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (my personal favorite sequel), and it specifically chronicles the making of that film while also recapping the franchise up to that point. Featuring interviews with Wes Craven, Robert Englund, director Renny Harlin, and stars Brooke Theiss and Lisa Wilcox, among others, the doc is packed with behind the scenes footage from the filming of several key scenes, including Kincaid’s junkyard death and Debbie’s gruesome transformation into a roach.

Seeing Robert Englund talk as Robert Englund, while in the full Freddy Krueger makeup, makes us smile pretty wide. And we hope it does the same for you.

Happy Birthday, sir!

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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Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’ Is Now Available to Watch at Home!

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After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.

You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!

Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.

Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”

“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.

She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”

Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.

Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.

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