A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge is the second film in the Nightmare on Elm Street series of slasher films. It was released in 1985 by New Line Cinema. The film was directed by Jack Sholder.
Tagline: The first name in terror returns…
Trivia:
Special-effects man Rick Lazzarini created a “demonic parakeet” puppet for the scene in which the Walsh’s pet parakeet flies around and explodes. His puppet was not used because they wanted a regular-looking bird.
This is the only film in the series not to use Charles Bernstein’s original theme, or a variation of it.
In the opening sequence, the bus driver is Robert Englund without the heavy “Freddy Krueger” make-up and his signature clothing.
Cameo: [Robert Shaye] the S&M bartender.
Brad Pitt, John Stamos and Christian Slater all auditioned for the role of Jesse.
The song “Touch Me,” which is being played in Jesse’s room, is an early (and slightly different) version of Cathy Dennis’s #2 hit from the early 1990s.
Nightmare series creator Wes Craven refused to work on this film because he never wanted or intended A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) to become an ongoing franchise (and even wanted the first film to have a happy ending), and also because he didn’t like the idea of Freddy manipulating the protagonist into committing the murders.
The running time for this film is 87 minutes, Freddy appears in just 13 of them.
JoAnn Willette is one of the girls seated in the back of the school bus driven by Freddy at the beginning of the film. She would later go on to star in the ABC sitcom “Just the Ten of Us” (1988), a program which not only featured numerous references to the “Nightmare on Elm Street” franchise, but also co-starred Heather Langenkamp (from the first, third, and seventh films) and Brooke Theiss (from the fourth film).
The last film in the original “Nightmare” franchise in which Freddy’s house is the focal point of Freddy’s terror. In the rest of the series, Freddy’s terror revolves generally around Elm Street and the town of Springwood with the house occasionally making an appearance. In the hybrid film, “Freddy vs. Jason”, there was a reference in the film that Lori lived in Freddy’s house but the reference was cut from the theatrical release (but appears in the Deleted Scenes section of the DVD).
Cast
Mark Patton … Jesse Walsh
Kim Myers … Lisa Webber
Robert Rusler … Ron Grady
Clu Gulager … Ken Walsh
Hope Lange … Cheryl Walsh
Marshall Bell … Coach Schneider
Melinda O. Fee … Mrs. Webber
Thom McFadden … Mr. Webber
Sydney Walsh … Kerry
Robert Englund … Freddy Krueger
GoreMaster’s Top Picks for fun and popular Halloween Costumes 2009. Click on the photo for more details. As always we wish you a safe and happy Halloween!!
Pirate Man Costume
Men’s Pirate Adult Halloween Costumes includes: headband, vest, shirt, waist sash and pants. one size.
Spanish Dancer Costume
Women’s Spanish Dancer Costume Includes dress and headpiece. Shoes not included.
Hairy Speedo Costume
Our hilarious Hairy Speedo Costume features a bodysuit with hair, blue speedo and Hawaiian style beach shirt.
Pirate Queen Costume
Full Cut Hooded Dress
Sexy Greek Goddess Costume
Blue and cream ombre mini dress
Headpiece
*Shoes Not included*
70s Hairy Chest Costume
70s Hairy Chest Shirt Costume features a one-piece shirt with built-in hairy chest.
Twilight Vampiress Costume
Score your own Edward Cullen in this sexy vampire number. A shiny, strapless mini dress. The red and black cape is detachable from loops along the neckline and features a stiff collar that stays up. A pleather belt with a Velcro closure in back features a pentagram on front with a large faux stone and several silver stars. A double row of chain hangs on both sides. Fangs complete the outfit. INCLUDES: Dress, Cape, Belt, Choker and Fangs.
Classic Star Trek Costume
Whether the exciting new Star Trek movie has made you a fan or you’ve been watching Classic Star Trek, Next Generation, Voyager, DS9, or Enterprise for years – you’ll want to beam up to your next costume party in this officially licensed Star Trek costume! Shirt has long sleeves and an embroidered Star Fleet emblem.
Men’s Super Deluxe Zombie
Our super deluxe “Adult Zombie” is sure to scare away the ghouls and goblins. This complete ensemble features a tattered shirt with a pvc chest exposing the bones and other organs, tattered pants with pvc bones exposed, and a pvc mask with hair and Gloves.
Skeleton Bride Zombie
4 piece costume includes tattered gown with lace up bodice and tulle trim cuffs headband with attached veil choker with gem and fingerless gloves.
Fade to Black is a 1980 slasher film starring Dennis Christopher, Eve Brent Ashe, and Linda Kerridge. Mickey Rourke also features in a small role. The film was nominated for many Saturn Awards, and Eve Brent Ashe won one for Best Supporting Actress.
Tagline: Meet Eric Binford, the ultimate movie buff. If you know someone like him… run!
Trivia:
Chris Stein of Blondie was the original choice to compose the soundtrack but his deal was canceled.
Fade to Black contains film clips from: a) Kiss of Death b) White Heat c) Public Enemy d) Horror of Dracula e) Creature from the Black Lagoon f) Night of the Living Dead
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers is the 1989 sequel to the popular horror film, Halloween. It was directed by Dominique Othenin-Girard and starred Donald Pleasence, who again portrayed Dr. Sam Loomis and Danielle Harris, who returned to play Jamie Lloyd. The film takes place exactly one year after the events depicted in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. The Shape has returned to the sleepy town of Haddonfield, Illinois to murder his niece, Jamie, who is now mute. Dr. Loomis tries to save the day with the help of Sheriff Meeker.
This is the least successful Halloween film in the franchise. The film was rushed into production too quickly, without even a final draft of the script. The tagline for the film was “Michael Lives. And This Time, They’re Ready!”
Trivia:
The bus that the Man in Black gets off of stops outside the exact same store where Jamie and Rachel went to get a Halloween costume in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988).
Rachel was originally supposed to be stabbed in the throat with scissors but the actress, Ellie Cornell, felt it was too gruesome an end for her character, so it was changed.
Don Shanks revealed in an interview that many of the scenes involving the man in black had him playing the character, because of speculation that he was a blood relative of Michael Myers. He also admitted that even the writers uncertain about the man in black’s identity.
The Man In Black shots were re-shot in the UK for unknown reasons with an unknown British extra. The extra was uncredited.
The scene where Michael Myers drives a car while wearing a different kind of mask was initially scripted to have him wear a Ronald Reagan mask. However, the idea of a Reagan mask was soon rejected in order to keep the film devoid of any political subtexts.
On the audio commentary for the DVD it’s stated that Greg Nicotero and Wendy Kaplan were seeing each other during filming.
KNB Effects had designed grotesque facial makeup for Michael Myers’ unmasking towards the end of the film. The producers told them to do so as an option, either showing Michael’s badly scarred face or keep it in the dark. They went for the latter.
In the infamous laundry chute scene, Jamie was originally stabbed in the leg but the shot was cut from the film by the MPAA because it was deemed “too disturbing”. Danielle Harris still owns the prosthetic leg.
The laundry chute scene was filmed with 30 different sections of the laundry chute. Some were full props, others were positioned horizontally to run the camera through on a dolly, and others were various sections that had cut-out portions for filming. Although the scene was very complex, it was all shot in one night.
As part of the opening, an alternate scene was shot but never used. The scene shows a man who finds Michael Myers body at the beginning and removes his mask, staring at it weirdly. The filming of it can be seen in the documentary, “Inside Halloween 5″.
For some reason, the directors chose to renovate one of the homes in Utah to recreate the Myers house instead of using the original Myers home, which would be later used in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995).
Director Dominique Othenin-Girard’s name is incorrectly spelled “Dominique Otherin-Girard” in the opening credits.
Puppet Master (also known as Puppetmaster and Puppet Master I) is a 1989 horror film released on October 12th 1989 and was written by Charles Band and Kenneth J. Hall, and directed by David Schmoeller. It is the first film in the Puppet Master franchise and stars Paul Le Mat, Irene Miracle, Matt Roe and Kathryn O’Reilly as psychics who are plotted against by a former colleague, using puppets animated by an Egyptian spell. The film’s cult status has led to the production of nine sequels. Originally intended for theatrical release in summer 1989, before being released on home video the following September, Puppet Master was ultimately pushed to a direct-to-video release on October 12, 1989, as Charles Band felt he was likely to make more money this way than he would in the theatrical market.
William Hickey as Puppetmaster Andre Toulan in his workshop
Puppet Master has been reissued several times. It is available in a box set featuring the first seven installments of the series, an 18-disc Full Moon Features collection and a Spanish-subtitled import collection of the first three Puppet Master films. In 2007, Razor Digital released an uncut DualDisc version of Puppet Master, featuring both the standard and stereoscopic versions of the film. The uncut version restores a number of deleted scenes, including additional footage of Frank and Carissa having sex, extra frames added to Dana’s death which make the slash across her throat more visible, and Neil’s death scene being extended to contain more gore. In December 2008, Band authorized Puppet Master for digital download through the iTunes Store; his first foray into the digital market.
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The film starts in 1939 Bodega Bay, California with an old puppeteer named Andre Toulon putting the finishing touches on a living puppet called Jester. A living oriental puppet stares out of the window at Blade, another living puppet, as Blade scouts the grounds of the Bodega Bay Inn that Andre is staying at. Two Nazis get out of a car and head for Toulon’s room but Blade beats them there and Andre puts Blade, Jester and the oriental puppet into a chest, before hiding the chest in a wall panel. As the Nazis break down the door, Toulon shoots himself in the mouth with a pistol. The oriental puppet is not seen for the rest of the movie.
The film now cuts to 1989, with a psychic named Alex. Alex has a dream that there are leeches on his stomach. Seconds later, he dreams of a man that he recognizes putting a gun to a woman’s head. The film cuts to Dana, another psychic, who has visions of being slashed across the throat with a knife. Carissa and Frank, two other psychics who are apparently lovers, are reading the mind of another woman when they get a call from Alex. Frank tells Alex that they also got a call from Dana, and the four psychics assess that the visions they’ve been having were sent from a former colleague, Neil Gallagher.
The psychics meet at the Bodega Bay Inn that Neil is staying at and meet Neil’s wife, Megan, as well as the housekeeper, Theresa. The psychics are skeptical that Neil took a wife but it is forgotten when Megan tells them that Neil shot himself. Theresa, Megan, Dana, Carissa, Frank, and Alex leave the body and Pinhead, another living puppet, jumps from the casket.
Later, Carissa has visions of Neil violently attacking a woman in an elevator. Dana warns Theresa to stay away from the fireplace and later, at dinner, Dana makes several remarks about Neil that causes Megan to leave the table. Alex goes after her and explains about the powers of he, Dana, Carissa, and Frank.
When night falls, Theresa goes near the fireplace and is murdered when Pinhead hits her with a poker. The psychics hear a scream and find Megan passed out nearby Neil’s body that has been moved into a chair by someone. Carissa and Frank spend some intimate time together in one of the hotel rooms but two more living puppets, Tunneler and Leech Woman, enter. Tunneler kills Carissa by drilling into her face and Leech Woman vomits leeches onto Frank’s body, which drain his blood. Meanwhile, Dana sits around with her strange, dead and preserved dog until she has her leg broken by Pinhead. Pinhead chases her and repeatedly strangles and punches her until she manages to knock him away, only to have her throat slashed by Blade, using his knife-hand.
Alex has recurring nightmares of Megan having a gun put to her head by Neil and the other psychics being found dead, but is eventually awoken by Megan who takes him into the room that Andre Toulon was in, and tells him that Neil found Andre’s secret to bringing inanimate objects, such as puppets, to life. Alex has a vision and they go downstairs to find the dead bodies of the psychics sitting around a table. They are stopped by the newly resurrected Neil. He explains that “metaphysically speaking”, he did commit suicide, but he used Toulon’s formula to give himself eternal life. He fights with Alex and beats him up, until Neil hurts Jester and the puppets revolt against him. They lock him in an elevator and murder him by having Pinhead hold Neil’s head as Tunneler drill into his neck, Blade cut off his fingers, and finally Leech Woman vomits a leech into his mouth.
The film cuts to Alex saying goodbye to Megan and leaving the hotel. Now alone, Megan picks up Dana’s taxidermic dog, and by the following scene, the dog becomes completely animate, indicating that she too has learned Toulon’s method (although the film’s sequel dispels that she has become the next Puppet Master).
Blade from Puppet Master
Cast
Paul Le Mat – Alex Whitaker
William Hickey – Andre Toulon
Irene Miracle – Dana Hadley
Jimmie F. Skaggs – Neil Gallagher
Robin Frates – Megan Gallagher
Matt Roe – Frank Forrester
Barbara Crampton
Kathryn O’Reilly – Carissa Stamford
Mews Small – Theresa
Barbara Crampton – Woman at Carnival
David Boyd – Man at Carnival
Peter Frankland – Assassin #1
Andrew Kimbrough – Assassin #2
Voice Performers
Ed Cook – Pinhead
Linda Cook – Leech Woman
Tim Dornberg – Tunneler
Bert Rosario – Blade
Michael Laide – Jester
Featured puppets
Oriental puppet
Blade
Jester
Pinhead
Tunneler
Leech Woman
Make Up Department
Valerie McKnight … makeup artist
Steve Neill … special effects makeup artist
Special Effects Department
Mark Rappaport … animatronics engineer
Patrick Simmons … special effects makeup
Tunneler
Visual Effects Department
Dave Allen … puppet animator
Dave Allen … visual effects supervisor
Sally Chow … puppeteer
Paul W. Gentry … effects photography
Dennis Gordon … puppet fabrication and miniatures
Beth Hathaway … puppeteer
Justin Kohn … puppet animator
Donna Littleford … visual effects production assistant
Harvey Mayo … puppet fabrication and miniatures
Jene Omens … puppet fabrication and miniatures
Mark Rappaport … animatronic engineer
Patrick Simmons … special effects makeup
Cindy Sorennen … puppeteer
John Teska … puppet fabrication and miniatures
Brett B. White … puppeteer
Terror Train is a 1980 Canadian horror film, directed by Roger Spottiswoode and stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Ben Johnson. It was filmed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from November 21 to December 23, 1979.
Tagline: The boys and girls of Sigma Phi. Some will live. Some will die.
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made Jamie Lee Curtis a young star; starring in three horror films in one year made her a “Scream Queen”, (which was improvised in the movie Scream). Terror Train is probably the least remembered of these films. Released in the United States on October 3, 1980 by 20th Century Fox, the film probably suffered from overexposure of its main star. The Fog and Prom Night had already been released to theaters, and enjoyed some success at the height of the early 1980s horror craze. Terror Train was first released on VHS home video in 1988 by CBS/Fox Video. A DVD was finally released in 2004 and is available with different cover art than the original VHS version. Original VHS copies were fetching up to $30 USD on eBay before the DVD was available.
This was the first motion picture directed by Spottiswoode. He later went on to direct the films Tomorrow Never Dies, Turner & Hooch, and Air America. He is an Emmy Award winning director, who has also won several other directing honors.
The train was rented from US museum Steamtown Foundation, pulled by one of the manu CPR light Pacific, at the time located in Bellows Falls, Vermont. Many of the cars were damaged during filming by cutting holes to allow filming within the various compartments, and the movie portrayal does not accurately reflect proper operating practices.
Trivia:
The observation type passenger car used in the film called the ‘Denehotso’ is being restored and is now located at the Arizona Railway Musuem in Chandler AZ.
The idea for Terror Train (1980) came from a dream that Daniel Grodnikhad. One weekend night after seeing the films Halloween (1978) and Silver Streak (1976), Dan woke up and said to his wife, “What do you think about putting Halloween on a train? His wife answered, “That’s terrible. He jotted down “Terrible Train” on a piece of paper on his nightstand. In the morning he changed the title to TERROR TRAIN, wrote up 22 pages, and made a deal on it with Sandy Howard’s company at 3 in the afternoon.
Jamie Lee Curtis shot this film back to back with the similarly themed slasher film Prom Night (1980) in late 1979. Both films were shot in Canada; Prom Night (1980) in Toronto and Terror Train (1980) in Montreal.
Shot in four weeks.
Filmed aboard actual train cars that were converted to allow space for large camera equipment for the production.
The debut film of director Roger Spottiswoode.
Along with Halloween (1978) and Prom Night (1980), this film would give actress Jamie Lee Curtis the title of ‘Scream Queen’ because of her frequent appearances in horror films early in her career.
The film’s German title is ‘Monster im Nacht-Express’, which translates to ‘Monster on the Night Express Train’.
Mortuary (also known as Embalmed in the UK and Hall of Death in West Germany) was a 1983 slasher film/horror movie which starred Bill Paxton, Mary Beth McDonough, David Wallace, Lynda Day George, with Michael Berryman (in an uncredited cameo) and Christopher George in one of his final roles. It centered on a hooded face painted killer who stabbed or impaled his victims with/on an embalming trocar. He turns out to be a mortician’s son with an obsessive fixation on a newlywed who tends to kill to the sounds of Mozart.
Bill Paxton
Tagline: Before your funeral…Before you are buried…Before you are covered with the last shovelful of dirt…Be sure you are really dead!
