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[Toys] Inside NECA’s 8-Bit Freddy Krueger, Based On the 1989 NES Game
Joining NECA’s hit Comic-Con exclusive “Friday the 13th Classic Video Game Jason” is the recently announced “A Nightmare on Elm Street Classic Video Game Appearance Freddy Krueger”. While we already shared a ton of images, we now have a look at the figure’s packaging, which continues the theme of 8-bit boxing.
Released in 1989 for the super popular 8-bit home console, the video game A Nightmare on Elm Street came out the same year as the Friday the 13th adaptation.
The new Freddy figures will will be a fully articulated 7-inch figure done up in that truly horrifying video game deco. Like Video Game Jason, Freddy comes in a special window box packaging with opening flap to re-create the look and feel of the classic 1989 video game packaging.
Look for NECA’s Freddy Krueger (1989 Video Game Appearance) this November!
View tons of images of the actual figure here:
Hey, remember that there’s a Faces of Death remake on the way from Legendary Entertainment and Cam filmmakers Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber?! It’s been a while since we’ve heard a peep about this one, but the film’s MPA rating has been handed in this week.
The upcoming Faces of Death remake is rated “R” for…
“Strong bloody violence and gore, sexual content, nudity, language and drug use.”
Musician Charli XCX will make her feature debut in Faces of Death.
Dacre Montgomery (“Stranger Things”), Barbie Ferreira (“Euphoria”), Josie Totah (“Saved by the Bell”) and Aaron Holliday (Cocaine Bear) are also set to star.
How do you remake Faces of Death? It sounds like Mazzei and Goldhaber have come up with an interesting approach for this one. Here’s what we know about this mysterious project.
[Related] Looking Back on the Fact and Fiction Behind ‘Faces of Death’
The original Faces of Death, released in 1978, is one of the most infamous films of all time, allegedly showcasing real footage of real death. In actuality, of course, much of the horrifying footage seen in Faces of Death is staged, with gory special effects often being paired up with real footage to create the illusion of gruesome reality. Early found footage, in other words.
The new story was conceived by Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber. Like the original film, Legendary is reportedly hoping the new one will spawn a multi-film franchise.
“Faces of Death was one of the first viral video tapes, and we are so lucky to be able to use it as a jumping off point for this exploration of cycles of violence and the way they perpetuate themselves online,” said Mazzei and Goldhaber in a recent statement.
“The new plot revolves around a female moderator of a YouTube-like website, whose job is to weed out offensive and violent content and who herself is recovering from a serious trauma, that stumbles across a group that is recreating the murders from the original film. But in the story primed for the digital age and age of online misinformation, the question faced is are the murders real or fake?”
The original movie was written and directed by the late John Allan Schwartz.
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