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Freddy and Jason Almost Joined Forces With Kid ‘n Play for a Comedy Mashup?!
The ’90s were super weird.
For an exclusive piece that will be posted here on Bloody Disgusting tomorrow, December 19, former Fangoria writer Jason Bene spoke with FX artist Al Magliochetti to dig deep into the visual FX work of Jason Goes to Hell. But it was during the chat that Magliochetti dropped an amusing tidbit that we wanted to share with you today.
While talking about the iconic ending scene of Jason Goes to Hell, wherein Freddy’s glove appears and pulls Jason’s masks into the fiery depths, Magliochetti revealed to Bene that he had actually heard rumblings of a Freddy/Jason mash-up even before he was approached to come on board the Friday the 13th franchise’s 9th installment.
We’ve heard of countless different iterations of the project that eventually became Freddy vs. Jason over the years, but we had *never* heard this one before…
“I’d actually heard rumors about a Jason/Freddy mash-up about a year before I got involved with Jason Goes to Hell,” said Magliochetti, “but at the time it was being talked about as a comedy with Jason and Freddy matching wits (or half-wits, as the case may be) with Kid n’ Play (remember them?) in a kind of an ‘Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein’ spoof. Obviously that never came to pass.”
Kid ‘n Play (Christopher Reid and Christopher Martin) was a hip-hop act that rose to popularity in the late ’80s/early ’90s. New Line Cinema released their House Party films in the early ’90s, so it seems they at least briefly entertained the idea of mashing them together with the Elm Street and newly-acquired Friday the 13th franchises.
We’re having a hard time even imagining that one!
Daniel Roebuck has been cast as Santa Claus in Terrifier 3, Bloody Disgusting can exclusively report.
Writer-director Damien Leone is currently wrapping production on the highly-anticipated sequel, in which Art the Clown unleashes chaos on the unsuspecting residents of Miles County as they peacefully drift off to sleep on Christmas Eve.
“I’ve been holding this secret for a long time!” Roebuck tells Bloody Disgusting. “I’ve been really excited about it. I’m actually entering into the movies that I watch. It’s extraordinary. This is Terrifier bigger, badder, best.”
Roebuck appears in Terrifier 3 alongside returning cast members David Howard Thornton, Lauren LaVera, Samantha Scaffidi, Elliot Fullam, and AEW superstar Chris Jericho.
No stranger to iconic horror properties, Roebuck has squared off against Michael Myers in Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, played The Count in Zombie’s The Munsters, succumbed to The Tall Man’s sphere in Phantasm: Ravager, and investigated death in Final Destination.
A distinguished character actor with over 250 credits, Roebuck has also appeared in The Devil’s Rejects, 3 from Hell, Bubba Ho-Tep, John Dies at the End, The Fugitive, Lost, Agent Cody Banks, and The Man in the High Castle. Incidentally, he’s also playing Santa in the family drama Saint Nick of Bethlehem, due out later this year.
Terrifier 3 will be released in theaters nationwide later this year via Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting in conjunction with our partner on Terrifier 2, Iconic Events Releasing.
Terrifier 3 comes courtesy of Dark Age Cinema Productions. Phil Falcone Produces with Lisa Falcone acting as Executive Producer. Co-producers include Mike Leavy, Jason Leavy, George Steuber, and Steve Della Salla. Brad Miska, Brandon Hill, and Erick Opeka Executive Produce for Cineverse. Matthew Helderman and Luke Taylor also Executive Produce.
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