Round-Up: FRIGHT NIGHT Docu Trailer, FREDDY’S NIGHTMARES Marathon, BEETLEJUICE-Inspired Sweatshirt, Phantasmagoria Judges, TALES OF DRACULA

2016/01/21 16:12:31 +00:00 | Tamika Jones

Now that The Story of Fright Night exists, fans of the film can go behind-the-scenes to see how Charley Brewster took on a vampire and more. Also: details on the Freddy's Nightmares marathon, Cavity Colors' Beetlejuice-inspired sweatshirt, the list of judges for Crypt TV's Phantasmagoria contest, and Tales of Dracula.

Fright Night Documentary: "Fright Night is one of the most beloved horror films of the 80s. Featuring exclusive interviews from key members of the series, go behind the scenes of Fright Night and Fright Night Part 2 with this ALL-NEW retrospective feature documentary.

From Dead Mouse Productions and Gary Smart producer of LEVIATHAN: THE STORY OF HELLRAISER & HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II comes the new FRIGHT NIGHT documentary YOU’RE SO COOL, BREWSTER: THE STORY OF FRIGHT NIGHT. LEVIATHAN proved that an independent documentary supported solely by the fans and a dedicated team of filmmakers can result in a fully detailed retrospective documentary."

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Freddy's Nightmares Marathon: Press Release: "Join El Rey Network and Freddy Krueger for the third annual "Rip Your Heart Out" Valentine's Day Marathon. This year will bring you and your Dream Warrior closer together with five of the classic NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET films as well as episodes from the iconic 1988 series FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES. The marathon will begin with the episode "BLACK TICKETS" on Saturday, February 13th at 6 AM ET/PT and will conclude with "NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 5: THE DREAM CHILD" on Monday, February 15th at 2 AM ET/PT.

The entire weekend will be hosted by the star of the franchise - Robert Englund. Englund's portrayal of Freddy Krueger blasted him into the pop culture vernacular as heir apparent to the horror icons of the past, destined to stand alongside Lon Chaney's Phantom of the Opera and Boris Karloff's monster in Frankenstein.

El Rey Network's "Rip Your Heart Out" Marathon Film Schedule:

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13TH

6:00 AM ET/PT "FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES: BLACK TICKETS"

7:00 AM ET/PT "FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES: LOVE STINKS"

8:00 AM ET/PT "FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES: THE ART OF DEATH"

9:00 AM ET/PT "FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES: NO MORE MR. NICE GUY"

10:00 AM ET/PT "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET"

12:00 PM ET/PT "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: FREDDY'S REVENGE"

2:00 PM ET/PT "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS"

4:00 PM ET/PT "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4: THE DREAM MASTER"

6:00 PM ET/PT "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 5: THE DREAM CHILD"

8:00 PM ET/PT "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET"

10:00 PM ET/PT "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: FREDDY'S REVENGE"

12:00 AM ET/PT "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS"

2:00 AM ET/PT "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4: THE DREAM MASTER"

4:00 AM ET/PT "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 5: THE DREAM CHILD"

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14

6:00 AM ET/PT "FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES: DEADLINE"

7:00 AM ET/PT "FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES: JUDY MILLER, COME ON DOWN"

8:00 AM ET/PT "FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES: SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL"

9:00 AM ET/PT "FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES: SISTER'S KEEPER"

10:00 AM ET/PT "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 5: THE DREAM CHILD"

12:00 PM ET/PT "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4: THE DREAM MASTER"

2:00 PM ET/PT "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS"

4:00 PM ET/PT "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: FREDDY'S REVENGE"

6:00 PM ET/PT "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET"

8:00 PM ET/PT "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: FREDDY'S REVENGE"

10:00 PM ET/PT "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS"

12:00 AM ET/PT "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4: THE DREAM MASTER"

2:00 AM ET/PT "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 5: THE DREAM CHILD"

FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES: THE ART OF DEATH

A tormented young artist freaks when his latest cartoon, The Phantom, leaps from the page to do his bidding. Meanwhile, after undergoing a traumatic experience, a claustrophobic is driven to the brink of madness.

FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES: BLACK TICKETS

A young couple elopes in search of freedom but find themselves trapped in Springwood.

FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES: DEADLINE

A newshound finds himself too involved with the obituaries he has to write. Also, Emily is the only survivor of a car accident that claims the lives of her friends but their spirits and a strange man torment her.

FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES: JUDY MILLER, COME ON DOWN

A married woman is into watching game shows. She gets onto one, which becomes a nightmare wherein if she answers correctly, her husband dies. She wins $1,000,000 then travels back in time warning herself to get rid of the money or else her husband will die.

FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES: LOVE STINKS

After teenager Adam is coerced into having a one-night-stand with Loni, a girl he meets at a party, he finds that she's looking for a more permanent relationship. Meanwhile, Adam's friend Max is forced to abandon his planned summer trip and take a job in a pizza place working under his creepy, tyrannical uncle.

FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES: NO MORE MR. NICE GUY

On this evening's program, the repulsive Freddy Kruger (Robert Englund) explains how he became the bon vivant and fashion plate who we know and hate so well. Freddy's ramblings lead to the evening's drama, all about a fellow who decides that the best way to get ahead is to stomp on everyone in his path.

FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES: SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL

Greg will lie about anything to get a date with a hot girl, but when she ends up being everything he has already lied about, he must die. Then her roommate wants to get ahead at work, so is introduced her to a beauty czar who makes her exquisitely lovely, which spells her downfall.

FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES: SISTER'S KEEPER

In this follow-up to "No More Mr. Nice Guy," the twin daughters of the cop who killed Freddy find that whenever one is attacked by the man of their dreams, the other is wounded. So the sisters team up to try to get Freddy out of their dreams for good.

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET

Several people are hunted by a cruel serial killer who kills his victims in their dreams. When the survivors are trying to find the reason for being chosen, the murderer won't lose any chance to kill them as soon as they fall asleep.

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: FREDDY'S REVENGE

A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by Freddy Krueger who is out to possess him to continue his murdering in the real world.

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS

Survivors of undead serial killer Freddy Krueger - who stalks his victims in their dreams - learn to take control of their own dreams in order to fight back.

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4: THE DREAM MASTER

Freddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a young woman who may know the way to defeat him for good.

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 5: THE DREAM CHILD

Alice, having survived the previous installment of the Nightmare series, finds the deadly dreams of Freddy Krueger starting once again. This time, the taunting murderer is striking through the sleeping mind of Alice's unborn child. His intention is to be "born again" into the real world. The only one who can stop Freddy is his dead mother, but can Alice free her spirit in time to save her own son?

ABOUT ROBERT ENGLUND

After five years of success in regional theater Robert Englund returned to the west coast for his very first audition which landed him a starring role in the 1973 film Buster and Billie directed by Daniel Petrie. Englund worked steadily through the 70's playing best friends, bad guy #1 and southern rednecks and starred opposite some of the biggest stars of the time including Henry Fonda, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Bridges, Sally Field and Arnold Schwarzenegger among others. Audiences could put a name to his familiar face when Englund was cast as Willie the friendly alien in the hit mini-series and subsequent successful TV show "V". During one hiatus from filming the series, he auditioned for a hot young director making an interesting low budget horror movie for the independent studio New Line Cinema. Englund's interview with Wes Craven landed him the role playing the burn-scarred dream demon Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street and launched him into horror history. The international success of "V" and the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise opened the door for film work abroad. Englund has starred in movies shot in such exotic locales as Budapest, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Johannesburg, Madrid, Palermo, Barcelona and Zagreb. After over 75 feature length films, four TV series and countless episodic guest star roles - the most recent being guest leads on "Criminal Minds" and "Workaholics", Englund is now directing as well as acting, and exploring the world of reality television and internet programming. He can currently be seen co-starring with Malcolm McDowell and John Glover in the film Sanitarium. Upcoming films of Robert include; The Funhouse Massacre (to be released 2016), Fade (TBD) and Abruptio (2017).

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Cavity Colors' Beetlejuice-Inspired Shirt: From Cavity Colors: "Coming Thursday, January 21st at 5 pm (est). Who cares if it's not the holidays anymore?! It's still cold out! So we are gonna release this limited edition sweatshirt featuring some juicy characters!"

To learn more, visit: http://cavitycolors.com/collections/new-releases

Phantasmagoria: Press Release: "(Little Rock, AR) – Tamara Glynn was announced today as part of the judge panel for the upcoming Fantastic Cinema and Craft Beer Festival “Phantasmagoria presented by Crypt TV” 60-second fake trailer contest in April.

Fantastic Cinema and Craft Beer Festival Aims to Conjure Participants for “Fantastic Phantasmagoria presented by Crypt TV,” a 60-second fake trailer contest, to be exhibited during the festival’s run April 7-10 at the Riverdale 10 VIP Cinema. The contest is a first for the festival, opening up the spotlight to everyday film hobbyists and amateur filmmakers to display their talents for the strange and macabre.

A trailer is an all-too-important factor to initiate the mouth-watering taste that gets the audience hungering for more. A good trailer can cause people to line up in front of the theaters while a bad one can keep them away like the plague. When it comes to trailers, all the audience cares about is if it can get their pulse racing! Fantastic Cinema and Crypt TV challenge filmmakers to create a trailer that will get their adrenaline rushing in just 60 seconds.

“Genre filmmakers are some of the most creative filmmakers you will ever meet,” says Fantastic Cinema Festival Director Tony Taylor. “And most genre filmmakers have a million ideas in their head. Films they’d love to make. Films that could be the next huge genre films. We want to see these ideas, no matter how wild and crazy they may be, in the form of a 60-second trailer.”

Aside from the 60 second length, content for submissions must be an original idea--not based on anything currently in existence, a la fan-films--and aspire to adhere to Crypt TV’s “Weird is Good” motto but otherwise can be among varying genres, including horror, science fiction, fantasy, or thriller.

Submissions are due by February 29th, and then Fantastic Cinema’s Rising Filmmaker Award winners, Luchagore Productions--as well as others involved in the film business--will judge all submissions to select a winner.

Contest Judges

TAMARA GLYNN: Originally from Arkansas, Tamara made her way to Los Angeles to star in Halloween 5. Ms. Glynn television credits include: Knots Landing, Growing Pains, Miami Vice, Life on the Flipside, Brand New Life and Nightmare on Elm Street (the series) and Rags to Riches Tamara moved back to Arkansas in the 1990’s and has continued an active career in front of the camera as well as behind the camera working with Federal Express, Alltel, Back Yard Burger, Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield, UAMS, Sears, Magic Springs and many more.

Tamara is the co-founder and host of the Hot Springs Horror Film Festival held yearly at the Central Theater in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Tamara is on the International Convention circuit representing her much loved character, Samantha Thomas from the movie Halloween 5 The Revenge of Michael Myers.

CHRIS ALEXANDER: Canadian-based, internationally published writer, composer, and filmmaker and has served as editor-in-chief of such notable film magazines as FANGORIA, GOREZONE, and DELIRIUM. Prior to this, he was a critic and columnist for RUE MORGUE magazine. As a filmmaker, he is the writer, director and composer of the award-winning vampire film BLOOD FOR IRINA, its follow-up/sequel, QUEEN OF BLOOD and the erotic surrealist drama FEMALE WEREWOLF. Alexander has also composed original music for films like Joseph O’Brien’s THE DEVIL’S MILE, Chris Walsh’s stop-motion horror film THE SHUTTERBUG MAN, featuring narration by film legend Barbara Steele (BLACK SUNDAY, 8 1/2). He has written thousands of feature articles in various publications and periodicals and has interviewed virtually every horror legend at least twice. He is currently the editor of horror film website SHOCK TILL YOU DROP.

JUSTIN BEAHM: Writer, producer, and director whose work appears in Fangoria, Famous Monsters of Filmland, and Horrorhound magazines. He has produced and directed for Anchor Bay Entertainment, Shout! Factory, Scream Factory, Trancas International, Prescribed Films, and Reverend Entertainment. He helmed the 2012 theatrical re-release of John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN, appears on a number of video commentary tracks and is occasionally dragged in front of the camera by friends.

COURTNEY PLEDGER: Executive Director and Programming Director of the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, the oldest all-documentary festival in North America and an Oscar®-qualifying festival in the category of Documentary Short Subject.She is executive producer of DreamWorks Animation’s B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations, and has recently served as a literary creative consultant to the U.K.’s award-winning Aardman Animation. She continues a partnership with Working Title Films co-founder Sarah Radclyffe, responsible for Universal’s The Vampire’s Assistant: Cirque du Freak, based on the best-selling book series The Saga of Darren Shan starring John C. Reilly, Salma Hayek, and Josh Hutcherson.

Pledger was Senior VP of production for Los Angeles-based Radical Pictures/Radical Studios where she helped build the company’s graphic novel publishing and film brands and was instrumental in the development of the underlying properties for Universal’s Oblivion with Tom Cruise, and MGM’s Hercules with Dwayne Johnson. Prior to Radical, Pledger was a producer with Illumination Entertainment/Universal Studios.

Pledger has served as an executive at Hearst Entertainment and was Vice President of Production at Raystar/ Indieprod for Hollywood legends Ray Stark and Dan Melnick. For television, she has produced series pilots starring actors Anthony Perkins and Ian McShane, as well as series A Fine Romance, an international co-production from ABC/London Weekend Television/Television France. She was nominated for an Emmy and won the Women in Film Lillian Gish Producing Award for CBS' Evidence of Love (aka A Killing in a Small Town) and a Christopher Award for ABC mini-series The Challenger.

RAYNOR SHIMA

Producer and Productions Designer at LuchaGore Productions. Based in Vancouver B.C., Raynor Shima attended Vancouver Film School, in the film production program, and also gained his experience in commercial film as a young emerging producer. He started his transition into short films, teaming up with partners Gigi Saul Guerrero and Luke Bramley, creating LuchaGore Productions as an outlet for their work. Working with limited resources, Raynor has proven to get projects made under budget and on time. On the side note, he has also acted as the Production Designer on his teams projects. Giving that unique aesthetic look, that make up a Luchagore film. Two of his most successful produced short films, "Dia De Los Muertos", and "El Matador" have gotten picked up to be featured in upcoming horror Anthology's, "Mexico Barbaro" and "ABC'S of Death 2.5". Currently, he is working on producing and adapting his first feature-length film Muerte Con Carne. He successfully funded a Kickstarter campaign with his team to shoot a proof of concept for the feature, called El Gigante. Which is currently running the festival circuit and has gone on to receive many international awards around the world.

LUKE BRAMLEY

Cinematographer, Co-Editor, and Co-Director at LuchaGore Productions. Born and raised in British Columbia, Canada, Luke Bramley developed a passion for horror at a young age during the days of VHS rental houses when his older sister and him would rent scary movies and freak themselves out late at night. His passion turned from being scared to scaring people when he developed an interest in filmmaking, and after a stint as a cook, he decided to follow his passion and pursue motion pictures. It was during this time that he met fellow like-minded filmmakers, and shortly after graduation they formed their own company Luchagore Productions, which specializes in blood, guts, and gore!

Luke is especially interested in the visual aspects of filmmaking and enjoys exploring and conveying the darker side of humanity in films using light and shadows as well as camera position and focal length. Some of his biggest inspirations are filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, and cinematographers Emmanuel Lubezki and Roger Deakins. His goal is to continue to horrify and gross out audience members as well as make them think about current global situations and crises.

GIGI SAUL GUERRERO

Director, Co-Writer, and Co-Editor at Luchagore Productions. Born and raised in Mexico City, Mexico, Gigi moved to Vancouver B.C., where she graduated with honors her B.A. in Motion Picture Production at Capilano University's "Bosa Centre for Film and Animation". Guerrero is now commonly known for her gritty "Tex-Mex" style with a touch of grindhouse gore in her filmmaking.

Now in her early 20's Guerrero is one of the co-founders of Horror company Luchagore Productions. Her recent successes include the short film Dia De Los Muertos, which is part of Mexican Horror Anthology "Mexico Barbaro", now out on DVD/VOD. She also directed M is for Matador, which is officially a part of the ABC's of Death 2.5, and has been screened in festivals from the USA to Mexico to Japan! Guerrero is working with horror novelist Shane McKenzie on a new Horror feature "El Gigante", which is her most successful short yet. Fans from all over the world are waiting for this feature to happen! Guerrero made a stamp in the horror community by recreating the original Evil Dead into 60 Seconds for a local contest and was featured on sites such as Bloody Disgusting, Buzzfeed, and JoBlo.com. Gigi also had a hand at redefining the horror genre by co-creating the audience-interactive Web Series Choose Your Victim while still in film school.

For full contest details and rules, visit: http://www.fantasticphantasmagoria.com"

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Tales of Dracula: "To regain his strength, Dracula, the king of vampires, has returned to his native soil and his castle in the Carpathian Mountains.

While there, he seeks a new bride to do his bidding and chooses a farmer's daughter pure of heart.

However, Dr. Victoria Frankenstein has other plans for the infected blood of Dracula's new bride. Victoria plans to rejuvenate the Monster created by her grandfather, Henry Frankenstein, by mixing the vampire's blood with the blood coursing through the Monster's veins.

Once Dracula learns of this treachery, he sets out to take his revenge!" This is a must have film for any classic monster fan, old and new alike. Journey back with us to the good old silver-screen days, with "Tales of Dracula".

To learn more, visit the Tales of Dracula DVD Order Page at: Tales of Dracula"

About the Author - Tamika Jones

Tamika hails from North Beach, Maryland, a tiny town inches from the Chesapeake Bay.She knew she wanted to be an actor after reciting a soliloquy by Sojourner Truth in front of her entire fifth grade class. Since then, she's appeared in over 20 film and television projects. In addition to acting, Tamika is the Indie Spotlight manager for Daily Dead, where she brings readers news on independent horror projects every weekend.

The first horror film Tamika watched was Child's Play. Being eight years old at the time, she remembers being so scared when Chucky came to life that she projectile vomited. It's tough for her to choose only one movie as her favorite horror film, so she picked two: Nosferatu and The Stepford Wives (1975).

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