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Stars of ‘Chucky,’ ‘Resident Alien,’ & More Pick their Horror Villain Nemesis
Picture it. It’s Friday night; the lights are turned down. Your favorite horror villain is slicing and dicing on the screen, and all you can think is, “I’d never fall for that! I could totally take him!”
We’ve all been there right? It’s fairly a right of passage for any horror lover to pick two villains. One they love, and one whose ass they know they could kick.
But what about the people who’ve acted in those films and series? The people who have made careers on the big and small screen? For us, it’s a fantasy. For them…if they play their cards right…they might just get the chance.
Being a curious–nosey–reporter, I had a little chat with a friend at NBCUniversal, and he was kind enough to ask a few of their stars to weigh in on the matter. I was not let down. Take a look at the list below, and tell us who you’d like to face down yourself!
Freddy Krueger
Alex Vincent (Chucky, SYFY and USA Network): If I were to face off against another horror icon, I’d have to say Freddy Krueger. The concept of being stalked and killed in my dreams has always been haunting, and profound to me. The prospect sounds rather terrifying, and without Robert England I’m not sure I’d feel quite the same, but that story has always been impactful to me!
Jocko Sims (New Amsterdam, NBC): Freddy…. I first saw A Nightmare on Elm Street when I was four years old. It changed my life. Freddy was like Santa Clause, and oddly became a large part of why I do what I do today!
Christine Elise (Chucky, SYFY and USA Network): Because I consider the newer franchises (Child’s Play, Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm St and Scream) as iconic as the original Universal monster films – any of those would be incredible but I have a soft spot for Freddy. Maybe because he is a wise ass like Chucky, maybe the being afraid to sleep is so visceral a fear, maybe because I think he would be Chucky’s best nemesis – I am not sure – but I would choose Freddy.
Ghostface
Sara Tomko (Resident Alien, SYFY): Ghostface from the Scream series.
Daniela Nieves (Vampire Academy, Peacock): Ghostface just because I feel like out of all the other horror icons he’s probably the weakest ability wise.
Pennywise
Chibuikem Uche (One Of Us Is Lying, Peacock): Pennywise! As a child, I watched It with my older siblings, and for the next 3-4 years Pennywise heavily haunted me in my sleep. So I’m fully prepared to face-off and end this battle once and for all, so other 8 year olds don’t have to suffer like I did.
Judah Prehn (Resident Alien, Peacock): Pennywise because I like balloooooooonnns.
Hannibal Lecter
Zyra Gorecki (La Brea, NBC): Okay, I don’t watch very many horror movies, but one of my favorite movies is Silence of the Lambs (psychological thriller, is that a horror movie?), so I would want to face Dr. Lector. I think it would be interesting to face him because he’s such a contradiction….both seemingly gentleman and a horrifying serial killer cannibal.
Michael Myers
Jake Lockett (Chicago Fire, NBC): I’d love to face Michael Myers. Mainly because I’ve grown up watching Halloween every year and I find that there is some amazing genre extremes in fighting and lines that border on comedy. I’d love get to explore all that while finally “killing him” at the end of the film. Assuming that he can be killed…
Chucky
Daniel Kyri (Chicago Fire, NBC): Chucky because I feel like a well-placed kick and a nice sprint would get me to safety!
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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