While dedicated fans will bemoan the absence of original series star Robert Englund in the remake of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (What? Not even a friggin’ cameo?!), the Fango Hall of Famer has not been sitting idle. Englund has a number of projects on the way, most lensed in his favorite European travel spots. Today, we’ll tell you about his Italian slasher film NIGHT OF THE SINNER.
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Time to die. Rutger Hauer is going batty again. The BLADE RUNNER actor has been cast as the vigilante vagrant in Jason Eisener’s feature film HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN. 
They called him Machete. He knows the score. He gets the women. And he kills the bad guys. Robert Rodriguez has turned his GRINDHOUSE trailer into a feature film, and it now has a release date. Read on!
Universal’s prequel to John Carpenter’s THE THING is now lensing, and another name has been added to a cast that includes BLACK CHRISTMAS’ Mary Elizabeth Winstead, ACOLYTES’ Joel Edgerton and REEKER’s Eric Christian Olsen.
The haunting Irish ghost film, THE ECLIPSE (read our previous feature 
Underground filmmaking doesn’t get much more underground than this. We’re in a basement in Queens that’s serving as a location for the independent fright feature THE SUPER, and a better setting for ghastly violence would be hard to find. The walls are crumbling, paint peels off them, pipes are exposed. Down a back passageway lies a cramped space full of junk that one would be loath to explore alone.
Indiana-based filmmaker Zack Parker, whose previous movies include the revenge/horror opus INEXCHANGE and the dramatic thriller QUENCH, got in touch with some comments and info on the latest project for his Along the Tracks Productions, SCALENE. Set to roll later this month in and around Richmond, IN, it’s a rape-and-revenge thriller with a RASHOMON twist.
Fango got the scoop on what you can expect from the DVD releases of a couple of ambitious independent horror features. James Felix McKenney informed us of the extras and a street date for BURNING INSIDE, from his new Channel Midnight company, while Cinema Epoch sent along the full skinny on SEA OF DUST (pictured), featuring Tom Savini.
Maine is not just Stephen King territory—not anymore. Call it “Kenyonland.” Nate Kenyon, that is, the author of the novels BLOODSTONE, THE REACH, PRIME and THE BONE FACTORY. Although he has the same Maine roots, he’s not as popular as “the King of horror”—but give him time.
ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST (a.k.a. DR. BUTCHER M.D.)
With Platinum Dunes’ remake of Wes Craven’s seminal somnambulist shocker A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET ready to be unleashed, Freddy Fever is at its peak once again. So the time is perfect for NEVER SLEEP AGAIN: THE ELM STREET LEGACY, a lengthy study of the original ELM STREET films from the people who brought you the definitive FRIDAY THE 13TH documentary, HIS NAME WAS JASON.