10 Killer Actors to Play New Freddy in NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
Dread Readers Pick 10 Killer Actors to Play New Freddy in Next NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET Movie including Bill Hader, Richard Brake, and yes, Kevin Bacon.
A week or so ago, we took to Facebook and Twitter to ask our readers who they think should replace the irreplaceable Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger in the inevitable reboot of Wes Craven’s
A Nightmare on Elm Street. And boy did we get some great ideas. But these are the top 10. And they’re killer. I mean, Bill Hader? Perfect.
10. Stephen McHattie
Biggest New (Movie) DVD Releases for the Week
Judas and the Black Messiah- Daniel Kaluuya, Lakeith Stanfield
The Little Things- Denzel Washington, Jared Leto
The Virtuoso- Anthony Hopkins
Painkiller- Michael Paré, Bill Oberst Jr., Khalimah Gaston
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones “When God Was Great”
Staind “Live: It’s Been a While” (Their first album in nine years. Recorded at a reunion show at Foxwoods Casino in CT, in 2019)
Weezer “Van Weezer”
Nancy Wilson “you and me” (Heart singer-guitarist’s first solo album, a mixture of original songs and covers; guests: Sammy Hagar, Duff McKagan, Taylor Hawkins)
Van Morrison “Latest Record Project Volume 1” (28-song double album)
What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend: May 7-9
Including Almodovar s English-language debut, Eat Wheaties! and season 3 of The Girlfriend Experience By Norman Wilner and Kevin Ritchie
May 7, 2021
The Human Voice
(Pedro Almodóvar)
Spanish director Almodóvar’s English-language debut is a short film that strips the hallmarks of his oeuvre down to a few core elements: a high-strung woman engages in high drama while clad in high fashion. Based on Jean Cocteau’s monodrama of the same name, The Human Voice is essentially a 30-minute showpiece for Tilda Swinton, who stars as a jilted woman confronting her ex in a lengthy phone call as her oblivious dog unhelpfully reflects back her anxiety. Cocteau’s play served as the inspiration for Almodóvar’s 1988 international hit Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown so not unlike 2019’s Pain And Glory, this project finds the director self-consciously revisiting the late 80s/early 90s period that defined his suc
Exclusive Interview: Michael Paré on How the Opioid Crisis Led to His Villainous Role in PAINKILLER
Painkiller,
Michael Paré decided it was worth playing the villain this time around because Mark Savage’s movie actually has something to say. After losing his daughter to the opioid epidemic, a broken man (Bill Oberst Jr.) becomes an underground radio personality and a masked twilight killer who starts to take revenge on those responsible for her death. In the past, Paré has played iconic characters in cult classics like
Eddie and the Cruisers and Walter Hill’s
Streets of Fire, sci-fi thrillers like
Bill Oberst Jr. stars in trailer for vigilante thriller Painkiller
Cinedigm has released a poster and trailer for director Mark Savage’s upcoming thriller
Painkiller which stars Bill Oberst Jr. as a man who begins a vigilante campaign against the white collar criminals behind the opioid epidemic after he loses his daughter to a drug overdose; watch it here…
In PAINKILLER, Bill Johnson (Oberst Jr.) has suffered the kind of loss that no parent should ever have to; watching his daughter fall victim to the opioid epidemic, which too long went unnoticed. Conversely, Dr. Alan Rhodes (Pare), has been leading a lavish lifestyle, thanks to the profits he’s been making from his prescription business. Seeing that no one is being held accountable, Bill sets out on a campaign targeting those made rich by the suffering of so many. Teaming up with a rogue cop, they set out to dismantle this network of doctors and pharmaceutical executives that continue to devastate families across the cou