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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.
From director David Ayer (Suicide Squad, Fury), Heart of the Beast will hit theaters on September 25 from Paramount Pictures, and GQ shares first look images this week.
In the film, a former Army Special Forces soldier and his retired combat dog attempt to return to civilization after suffering a catastrophic accident deep in the Alaskan wilderness.
Brad Pitt stars in the survival thriller Heart of the Beast, with J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) and Anna Lambe (“True Detective: Night Country”) also starring.
Cameron Alexander wrote the screenplay for Heart of the Beast. Academy Award winner Mauro Fiore (Avatar, Spider-Man: No Way Home) serves as director of photography.
“I’ll just be really honest: it made me cry,” Ayer tells GQ of the script. “Reading the script, it’s like a tone poem, in a sense. It’s so sparse—just a guy, a dog, mountains, and the calamities and triumphs that unfold, but what’s fascinating about the script is they’re constantly rescuing each other. It’s not like a guy and his pet—they felt like co-equals in this story. Brad wanted to be No. 2 on the call sheet, and rightly so. There was just something profound in the script. It felt like a study in grief, in healing, and of the human heart. So I had to do it.”
Ayer promises, “Don’t worry, the dog lives.”
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