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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?!
Netflix is reuniting with Emilia Perez director Jacques Audiard on an adaptation of French horror novel La Nuit ravagée, Variety reports today.
The project is described as an elevated horror film based on the critically acclaimed horror novel by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo.
It’s set in “Saint-Auch, a fictional suburb on the outskirts of Toulouse in Southern France, in the early 1990s. It follows a group of teenagers drawn to an abandoned house that exerts a strange power on them. After one of their friends dies under disturbing circumstances, they decide to enter the house, not suspecting it’s alive with something supernatural. Once they enter it, it begins to feed on their private fears, desires, and traumas, turning their psychological vulnerabilities into something monstrous and inescapable.“
The French-language Netflix original marks Audiard’s first foray into horror.
The divisive Emilia Perez, Audiard’s Spanish-language musical crime drama, amassed 13 nominations at the 97th Academy Awards but also met with controversy when offensive tweets by star Karla Sofía Gascón during the film’s award campaign.
Del Amo’s source novel was published last year and has been described as an homage to ’80s and ’90s horror in the vein of Stephen King, though its social realism is what lends itself to the elevated horror concept and Audiard’s attachment to the project.
Stay tuned for more as it arrives.
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