Dario Argento, Robert Englund, John Saxon, Kane Hodder, Tony Todd and more cult favorites headline Weekend of Horrors

Creation Entertainment’s Weekend of Horrors returns to Los Angeles on Friday, May 21st through Sunday, May 23rd, with the bucket of terror talent from film and TV. The three-day event will be held at the Marriot Los Angeles Airport, located 5855 West Century Blvd. in Los Angeles, California. Convention favorites scheduled to appear include writer/director ….

Nightmare on Elm Street documentary comes to DVD

Camelot Entertainment announced today the DVD release of 1428 Films’ Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, which is being billed as the definitive behind-the-scenes retrospective on the twenty-five year history of the horror franchise A Nightmare on Elm Street. ‘Never Sleep Again‘ will be available on DVD tomorrow, May 4th, 2010, following the theatrical ….

Spider-Man 2 writers and Michael Bay adapting comic Existence 2.0

HeatVisionBlog reports that Paramount has nabbed rights to the Image comic Existence 2.0, with Smallville and Spider-Man 2 writers Miles Millar and Alfred Gough attached to adapt. Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes will produce the eventual film with Circle of Confusion’s David Alpert. The action comic Existence 2.0 was written by Nick Spencer featuring with art ….

Terminator target may join Elm Street remake and dream of Freddy Krueger

Thomas Dekker – who plays the teenage John Connor on the possibly cancelled Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles – is in final negotiations to join the cast of A Nightmare on Elm Street reboot, as a character named Jesse, a jock on the high school swim team., according to ShockTillYouDrop. He would join Jackie Earle ….

Jackie Earle Haley goes from Rorschach to Freddy Krueger in new Nightmare

That’s right, according to THR’s Risky Business Blog, Jackie Earle Haley is taking over for Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger in New Line Cinema’s remake of Wes Craven’s classic A Nightmare on Elm Street. The original film was released in 1984, and featured Krueger is a serial child killer that was murdered by angry parents, ….

Wes Craven talks People Under the Stairs, Shocker, Elm St. and more remakes

Wes Craven was recently interviewed by Sci-Fi Wire, and tld them that his proposed remakes of The People Under the Stairs and Shocker are still moving forward, even though Relativity Media has taken over Rogue Pictures, which signed the deal with Craven’s Midnight Entertainment to develop the projects. The first remake under that deal, The ….