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Toy Fair ’10: New Freddy Krueger Figures Reveal New Glove?!?!
While carousing through the images from this years New York Toy Fair, we stumbled across something quite interesting from the Warner Bros. Pictures’ A Nightmare on Elm Street redo. Below you’ll find a look at NECA’s toyline feature a burnt and unburned Freddy Krueger arriving in stores this April. If you take a close look at the unburned Freddy you’ll notice he has a glove previously unseen by anyone! Is looks like a wool glove with rusty nails attached. What do you guys think? Click here for tons more Toy Fair coverage!
* Freddy Krueger (Figure will feature two interchangeable heads and a removable hat)
* Fred Krueger (This figure will be Freddy’s pre-burned look and will include interchangeable hands and a mini hand rake)
-Both figures will be released in late March to coincide with the film’s release on April 30th-
* The movie replica Bladed Glove is made of real metal and is based on the design from the new film. The glove will retail at in the $80 range and should be available before the film’s theatrical release in April.
* An amazing Freddy Puppet replica from Nightmare on Elm Street 3 was also on display at the booth but no release date or pricing information was available.”
Check out more images at Figures.com
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A contemporary reimagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story Herbert West: Reanimator is on the way, and Deadline has unveiled the first look at the new Herbert West and the pathologist drawn to his orbit.
The original screenplay and storyline come from Jade Sandberg Wallace.
Michael Grossman (“The Originals”, “Pretty Little Liars”) directs.
The new images introduce star Joseph Morgan (“Vampire Diaries“), who plays “brilliant surgeon and scientist Herbert West, who is obsessed with creating a serum to reanimate the dead.” Katie Cassidy (Speed Demon) stars opposite as the pathologist with a troubled past who joins his efforts.
Together, they prove that conquering death may be the ultimate sin against life itself.
The film’s official synopsis: “As a child, Herbert West watches his father Peter reanimate his dead mother Judith in a secret basement lab — only for Judith to mortally wound Peter and nearly kill Herbert before Peter shoots her. The trauma leaves its mark on Herbert, but so does one final image: his mother’s finger, twitching after death. Thirty years later, Herbert West is a brilliant, secretive surgeon still chasing his father’s obsession.
“Pathologist Kate Locke arrives in town and is drawn into his orbit — first through a spark at a hospital fundraiser, then through his secret lab, where he reveals a serum capable of reanimating severed tissue. Kate, hiding a dark past of her own, is thrilled rather than horrified, and moves into West’s mansion to work alongside him. Their early experiments on a cadaver succeed only briefly. West concludes that dead tissue is the problem — they need something fresher.”
Supporting cast includes Scott Aiello, Ira J Amyx, Randall Newsome, Emma Reinagal, James D. Bryce, Kathryn A Bentley, Jack Lancaster, Amy Holland Pennell, John Pierson, Mindy Shaw, Eric Dean White, Tristan Wilder Hallet, Adrienne Lamping, Aaron Crippen, and Drew Patterson.
Makeup artist Jeff Lewis (“Star Trek: Voyager,” “Star Trek: Enterprise”) and cousin Roger Lewis are heading the production via their newly established Woodlake Entertainment.
Lovecraft’s short story, first serialized in Home Brew magazine in 1922, is the first among his works to mention the fictional Miskatonic University. It was most famously adapted into a 1985 horror movie from Stuart Gordon, starring Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West.
Herbert West: Reanimator is set in Alton, Illinois, where production is now underway.
Herbert West: Reanimator. Photo credit: Matt Lief Anderson
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