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Celebrate #RobertEnglundDay with Bloody Disgusting & SCREAMBOX on June 6th!
Bloody Disgusting is celebrating the 76th birthday of horror legend Robert Englund on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, and in fact, the party has already begun over on SCREAMBOX!
The Bloody Disgusting-powered horror streaming service just added THREE classic Robert Englund films to the lineup, and that’s only the beginning of our epic celebration.
Over on SCREAMBOX, beginning today, you can now stream A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), plus Tobe Hooper movies Night Terrors (1993) and The Mangler (1995)!
Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street is of course the original horror classic that introduced audiences to Freddy Krueger, the dream demon that Robert Englund became a household name through playing across multiple films. Night Terrors, almost a full decade later, saw Englund playing the Marquis de Sade for director Tobe Hooper, while Hooper’s The Mangler brought Englund into the world of Stephen King. The Mangler is one of Englund’s personal favorite movies in his own filmography, based on King’s short horror story from 1972.
The arrival of these three Robert Englund films on SCREAMBOX is paving the way for SCREAMBOX Original documentary Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story, which will premiere only on SCREAMBOX for Englund’s birthday on June 6!
The documentary was shot over the course of two years, highlighting the life and career of the classically trained actor and director. Featuring interviews with Robert Englund and his wife Nancy, as well as fellow genre icons Lin Shaye, Eli Roth, Kane Hodder, Tony Todd, Adam Green, Bill Moseley, Heather Langenkamp & more, the documentary follows Englund’s career from his early days in Buster and Billie and Stay Hungry (starring with Arnold Schwarzenegger) to his big break in the 1980s as Freddy Krueger, his directorial debut with the 1988 horror film 976-EVIL, and his current roles such as Netflix’s hit series “Stranger Things”.
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story looks beyond the film credits and examines Englund’s career and his navigation through the cutthroat world of Hollywood.
In addition to debuting the doc, we’ll be celebrating #RobertEnglundDay on Bloody Disgusting and the BD socials all day long on Tuesday, June 6. You can expect a whole lot of Robert Englund content on that day, and we also invite you to tweet along using our hashtag. Whether it’s sharing your favorite Robert Englund movies or even live-tweeting along with films like A Nightmare on Elm Street, Night Terrors, and The Mangler on SCREAMBOX, we’re hoping to leverage the full power of the horror community to make #RobertEnglundDay a special day for both Englund and his fans. And we also hope to make #RobertEnglundDay an ANNUAL celebration. So please join us for the FIRST-EVER #RobertEnglundDay on June 6, 2023!
Watch the trailer for Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story below.
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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