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Robert Englund Reveals That He Worked On the Set of ‘Halloween’ 1978, Performing This Task
Not yet a horror icon back in 1978, a young Robert Englund did already have a handful of roles under his belt, notably playing the character Buck in Tobe Hooper’s Eaten Alive. And as it turns out, just six years before he truly arrived on the scene as Freddy Krueger, Englund actually worked on the set of another iconic slasher classic: John Carpenter’s Halloween.
In a chat with Access Live yesterday, wherein Englund teased that he may have one more Elm Street left in him(!), he relayed the story of how he helped turn Pasadena into Haddonfield!
“It’s so funny, I actually had a roommate, back when they did the original Halloween… the John Carpenter one. And he conned me into going to Pasadena one day, with garbage bags full of dead leaves,” Englund told the show’s hosts. “And we were working on the set of the original Halloween, throwing the dead leaves around. So it looked like Autumn… it looked like Fall back in the Midwest.”
This is a pretty wild story, as it’s one I’ve personally never heard before. A young Englund on the set of Halloween, before making it big as his own franchise icon. Crazy, eh?!
Robert Eggers (The Witch, Nosferatu) is back later this year with new horror movie Werwulf, and the very first teaser image from the hotly anticipated movie has surfaced tonight.
Oddly enough, this first look comes courtesy of the NBC Store, and it gives us a glimpse at a chilly Winter landscape from the film. Is there a werewolf hiding in the photo? Maybe…
Set in 13th century England, Werwulf sees a mysterious creature stalk the land as local folklore becomes a terrifying reality. The film hits theaters on December 25 via Focus Features.
Robert Eggers recently teased, “It’s the darkest thing I’ve ever written. By far.”
Eggers directs from a script he penned with his The Northman co-writer Sjón.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Nosferatu), Lily-Rose Depp (Nosferatu), Willem Dafoe (The Lighthouse), Ralph Ineson (The Witch), and Bodhi Rae Breathnach (Hamnet) star.
Robert Eggers and Sjón produce alongside Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner for Working Title. Maiden Voyage’s Chris Columbus and Eleanor Columbus are executive producing.
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