Mondo, the art devision of the world famous Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, have announced Wes Craven as the next director in their “Director’s Series”.

Craven is the fourth director to be featured in this series, which has already payed homage to the films of Guillermo Del Toro, Duncan Jones and Zack Snyder.

To top it off, we’ve been sent the first two prints – Scream and A Nightmare on Elm Street – with more to be added in the next couple of months.

The A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream prints are by Alex Pardee, who we interviewed recently about his excellent work on Sucker Punch, and will be made available on April 14th at an undisclosed time. Be sure to follow @MondoNews for the official details.

In the meantime, you can feast your eyes on the clever, and extremely gruesome, prints for A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream below:

Craven’s Scream 4 is released in the UK on Friday.

The number of decent horror remakes can be counted on the knives of one hand.

The recent Matt Reeves incarnation of Let the Right One In was a rare success, and I can think of Breck Eisner’s The Crazies and Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead as two remakes which were far better than expected.

It’s hard enough to shake the memories of the source material when there’s an iconic cinemonster centre stage, Rob Zombie’s revived Halloween movies suffered by comparison and this rethrusting of Freddy Krueger into the pop culture of the twenty-first century suffers also, begging the question: Why bother?

The 2010 remake/boot/imaging/gurgitation is a pale fire of mostly spent matches, with the welcome casting of Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger given almost nothing to do while wearing the Dennis the Menace jumper, save for growl and disembowel. More interestingly it is the backstory of how Freddy came to be that hooks you and while it’s not exactly Little Children there is something in the performance of Haley as pre-disfigured Freddy that provides the only moments of engagement.

Fans of the blood splatter and crazy kills are given their moments though when you’ve seen one foundry set dream sequence you’ve seen them all, and I found it completely impossible to engage with the kids, who in the fade out of the post modern slasher movie era are simply trendy blood bags.

The Blu-ray has the obligatory special features, with the cast and crew waxing lyrical about the power of the original, and I don’t doubt their sincerity in wanting to revive a horror classic, but in amongst the homage and updating of what is an instantly recognisable horror icon there is nothing more here than a scratching of the surface.

For another take on this check out HeyUGuys’ resident evil expert Gary’s review. He didn’t like it as much as I did.

With 2003′s Freddy vs Jason doing little to sate fanboys’ yearning for slasher superiority – though, really, only Jason left the movie with his head intact – Yahoo!Movies have endeavoured to throw Michael Myers into the mix and settle this immortal debate once and for all. Their arena: Slasher Showdown.

It’s a good thing too, with the iconic slashers from Halloween, Friday the 13th and – most recently – A Nightmare on Elm Street each having suffered at the hands of uninspired remakes, and the proposed sequel to Freddy vs Jason as dead as any one of the trio’s stoner victims, it was beginning to look as though we might never determine which of the three greats deserved Serial Killer of the Century.

With the winner not crowned until Friday, the final result is still anyone’s guess. While Jason may have machete’d his way to the highest bodycount, the polls remain open as to which of the three were responsible for, and I quote, ‘the coolest kills’?

You can see the full infographic below, however, should your opinion require more than a simple tick box to do itself justice, please have at it in the comments section below.

Not to get all meta on you, but whatever the verdict isn’t there really only one winner? A villain even more dastardly and unstoppable than any Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees or Michael Myer’s. I propose that Platinum Dunes be crowned victorious, for doing what a combined 30 movie’s worth of teen-fodder never quite managed: killing the killers.

Of course, we covered all of this last year…

To celebrate the of the 25^th October release of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, which sees a new Freddy Krueger born in a contemporary and horrifying re-imagining of the horror classic we have the ultimate horror giveaway. We’re got three copies of the multipack edition, which also includes a DVD and digital copy of the film to giveaway.

Terrorising a new generation of teens’ dreams is Oscar^® nominee Jackie Earle Haley (“Watchmen”, “Little Children”) as the iconic Freddy Krueger, complete with the trademark red and green sweater, fedora hat and bladed glove.

This chilling new interpretation packs a glove-full of thrills, with special features that take you into an even deeper nightmare, including a Freddy Krueger Reborn featurette, deleted scenes and an alternate ending.

In A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, a group of suburban teenagers share one common bond: they are all being stalked by Freddy Krueger, a horribly disfigured killer who hunts them in their dreams. As long as they stay awake, they can protect one another…but when they sleep, there is no escape…..

For your chance of winning simply answer the following question using the form below:

In A Nightmare On Elm Street, horror icon Freddy Krueger is played by this actor who recently starred in the action-thriller Watchmen and was nominated for an Academy Award® for his performance in Little Children. Name the actor.

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET is the ultimate film for a terrifying Halloween night in and the definitive horror experience of 2010 on Blu-ray and DVD.

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The small print:

• This competition is open to the UK only
• Only one entry per household will be counted
• Entrants must be 18 years or over
• The competition will close Monday 1st November (release date) at 23.59 GMT
• The winner will be picked at random from entries received

The usual T&Cs can be found here. Good Luck!

COMPETITION NOW CLOSED

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I’m a huge fan of the horror genre, I adore Robert Englund’s performance as Freddy Krueger and have been looking forward to the remake of Wes Craven’s Nightmare on Elm Street since I watched all the original movies back to back for my Halloween Special.

The HeyUGuys coverage to the release of this remake has hinted at quite a reasonable movie too so has it delivered or has it fallen asleep, been murdered and outdone by the original version. read on to find out.

One, Two how did Freddy do?

When it comes to Horror icons and films, there is arguably none better than the brilliant Freddy Krueger and the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Anyone who saw the original Nightmare on Elm Street when they were young fondly remember it as a scary and well made horror film that still holds up today as it did in 1984. The remake however is probably one of the most disappointing films I’ve ever seen.

Platinum Dunes have been responsible for the awful remakes of the Texas Chainsaw massacre,  Amityville, The Hitcher, Friday 13th and no doubt the upcoming remake of The Birds and so it’s no real surprise Nightmare on Elm Street has gone the same way. What is more disappointing is the way that they didn’t add anything remotely new or interesting to the story except some terrible dated CGI thrown in to scare in some hugely predictable ways.

This would bleed a whole lot more?

Three, Four it’s starting to bore

The basic story is the same with a bunch of teenagers being killed off in their dreams by a burnt disfigured man with a fedora and a glove of blades and for some reason nothing new is added or event attempted with any form of creativity. The only new idea that is presented to us is the rushed backstory that Freddy was an accused child molester of our teenage victims when they attended nursery as children and we witness the chase and murder of Krueger by the parents during a dream of one of the kids.

It’s utter nonsense as it attempts to make us believe that Freddy was actually innocent of the crimes and the parents acted a bit aggressively without just cause which is why he is murdering their children (which is a pretty interesting idea) but then that explanation is taken away in the end when he is proven to be a molester so what was the point of it all? 

The parents should have had a bigger role to play and it should have been explained clearly that they were the reason for Freddy killing their kids and there guilt attached to it but we get no explanation apart from they killed Krueger and that’s all we need to know.

Five, Six crap CGI antics

The murders when they came were your typical CGI deaths with gore a plenty. There were throat cuts, Freddy’s glove through chests, claws through faces and a female body dragged round the bedroom in homage to the original film but almost all of them seemed to be included just to shock and awe you with its brutality. This isn’t a bad thing if that’s what you want to see but I look back at the original film and the deaths were done by Freddy so that nobody would believe the kids stories of Krueger being alive. Freddy framed Rod for Tina’s murder after splattering her body all over her room then Freddy hanged Rod in his cell using his sheets which all worked for the story, where as in this remake people are dying in front of other people on surveillance camera’s which removes a vital part of the evilness of Krueger’s killing.

The CGI was used terribly for other scenes and in particular the iconic scene where Freddy’s face and hands appear in Nancy’s wall that was incredibly effective in the original but was copied and ruined by CGI that looked so dated and so so bad (See below) it was almost embarrasing. There was also a quick nod to the famous Johnny Depp scene where Nancy runs onto a carpet that turns in to a rivers of blood and sinks which opens up through her bedroom ceiling pouring through but almost instantly disapearing in CGI madness. It seemed like they were going to copy the scene then bottled it as it looked so bad.

Seven, Eight the remakes not so great

Overall a complete waste of time but unfortunately the box office will no doubt prove to be a success as the franchise is so iconic it will raise plenty of interest especially from the character of Freddy Krueger who was played admirably by Jackie Earle Haley who brought a creepy and often dark humour to the role. His makeup I’m still undecided on, at times it looked really effective but at others it looked like plasticine and ineffective compared to the old 80′s makeup which looked bloody horrible in the originals.

The casting of Jackie Earle Haley is a good one, he had a huge pair of shoes to fill and never played it quite as comical as Robert Englund which was a good move. He did have some excellent mannerisms like rubbing his blades together between his thumb and fingers which was great and he had some decent lines, but when the F-Word is thrown in from him and the other characters in increasing volumes then it all started getting a bit depressing and needless.

The scares were all forced but effective as almost everyone seemed to jump when they arrived, but who doesn’t when it’s dead quiet and then all of a sudden with a loud bass enduced thump something runs past screen, of course i’m going to jump but I’m not scared I’m startled and movies need to understand that this doesnt make a scary film.

The other cast are completely forgettable and unlikeable, Nancy (Rooney Mara) was hardly even used for the first third of the film and I really thought there was going to be a nice play on the story changing the lead and giving us a nice surprise by killing Nancy off early on but it was just bad character development and writing and not a brainwave from the evil Michael Bay production company.

Nine, Ten Never see it again.

Director of many music videos, including Smells like Teen Spirit, Samuel Bayer was given an impossible task to direct his first ever feature length film when supported by such drivel as the story and script from Wesley Strict and Eric Heisserer and with Platinum Dunes behind it all I should have known better than to expect something at least good from Nightmare On Elm Street. A missed opportunity and a huge let down.

To celebrate the 7th of May cinematic release of the terrifying re-imagining of A Nightmare on Elm Street , starring Jackie Earl Haley and Kellan Lutz we are giving three lucky winners the chance to win A Nightmare on Elm Street Merchandise, featuring a hat, tshirt, key rings and bloody bookmark!

Freddy Krueger returns in “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” a contemporary re-imagining of the horror classic.A group of suburban teenagers share one common bond: they are all being stalked by Freddy Krueger, a horribly disfigured killer who hunts them in their dreams. As long as they stay awake, they can protect one another…but when they sleep, there is no escape.

Donning Freddy’s trademark fedora, red-and-green striped sweater, and four-bladed gloves is Academy Award ® nominee Jackie Earle Haley (“Little Children,” “Watchmen”).

All you have to do win this exclusive prize is answer this simple question using the form below:

A Nightmare On Elm Street is produced by this director-producer, known for revitalizing several other recent horror hits including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Amityville Horror and Friday the 13th. Name the producer.

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This competition has now ended

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If ever you tried to think of a movie which would suit the new motion poster medium, it would have to be A Nightmare on Elm Street.

New Line Cinema have released a new motion poster seeing Freddie Kruger slashing through the poster with his claws. I’ve embedded it below. A Nightmare on Elm Street stars Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Thomas Dekker, Kellan Lutz, Katie Cassidy, Connie Britton, Jackie Earle Haley and is directed by Samuel Bayer and produced by Brad Fuller and Michael Bay.

It’s released in the UK May 7th.

We’re two weeks away from having seven shades of sleeplessness scared out of us by Jackie Earle Haley as the rebooted Freddy Krueger in Samuel Bayer’s A Nightmare on Elm Street and if the profusion of media from the clawfingered one’s next bedtime story hasn’t whetted/dulled your appetite allow me to present a new clip from the film.

It’s a short clip, but is exactly what you’d expect from this film, and it follows the other clips (all available here) in having Freddy torment a teenage girl with just the right amount of predatory insouciance.

Here Rooney Mara’s character Nancty has an exchange with the scarfaced scoundrel and it professes to be both chilly and chilling. I’ll leave it up to you to decide if it has the desired effect.

This one came in from ShockTillYouDrop.

Yahoo Movies have released a brand new clip from A Nightmare on Elm Street, a remake of the 1984 classic horror movie with Jackie Earle Haley taking on the task as the legendary Freddy Krueger. Katie Cassidy, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Thomas Dekker, Kellan Lutz and Clancy Brown all star alongside Earle Haley with Samuel Bayer directing.

This new clip is entitled ‘All I Have To Do Is Dream’ and shows Nancy (Rooney Mara) being stalked by Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley) at the supermarket.

Synopsis: A group of suburban teenages share one common bond; they are all being stalked by Freddy Krueger, a horribly disfigured killer who hunts them in their dreams. As long as they stay awake, they can protect one another… but when they sleep, there is no escape.

On Friday we showed you the latest UK poster for the Platinum Dunes remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street and we thought it was pretty damn cool. Today though we have an unofficial poster from Laz Marquez to show you and I think it’s even better.

Laz Marquez originally created the artwork as an invitation for a party he is holding to mark the release of the film but decided to post it on his site as well.

I think the poster is great and makes good use of the iconic elements of A Nightmare on Elm Street. What do you think?

You can see more of Marquez’s exceptional work on his site here.

A great new poster for the A Nightmare on Elm Street remake has been released over on Empire. The new poster shows the words ‘Never Sleep Again’ in blood with the Freddy Krueger (played by Jackie Earle Haley) claws cutting through them.

I was never a big fan of the original movies I think simply because I was too young to see them. I am now significantly older than I was when the first movie was released back in 1984 and I’ll definitely be checking out this new version which should be with us on 7th May.

With only a few weeks to go until we all fall asleep and get murdered by a scarred, crazy guy in a Dennis the Menace jumper,  in order to fuel the anticipation for Samuel Bayer’s rehash of Nightmare on Elm Street, New Line have shot out another trailer from their marketing cannon.

Before you clawfinger fans get all excited, this trailer is only slightly different to the last one, but if you really can’t wait for the film’s release then you can run the trailer over and over until sleep takes you. Jackie Earle Haley’s take on Freddy Krueger had better by more than the CGI wall diving/jump scares we’ve seen so far.

So turn out the lights, get comfy and never, no matter what, never feed them after midn…oh, wait – no, that’s a different 80s film isn’t it?
Anyway – here’s the trailer.

Our friends over at FirstShowing.net have put up another new poster for the A Nightmare on Elm Street which is starting to gain promotion all over the place.

Last week, we put up a poster and a new trailer for the movie which is directed by Samuel Bayer and stars Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker and Kellan Lutz. This new poster really sets the scene and I’ve been loving all the artwork that Warner Bros. are coming out with for the movie.

It’s scheduled for release 7th May so not too long to wait.

Yesterday we gave you a new poster for A Nightmare on Elm Street and as promised, here’s the new trailer (released via MySpace) to go along with it. The reboot stars Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Kellan Lutz, Thomas Dekker and Clancy Brown and is directed by Samuel Bayer.

A Nightmare on Elm Street is released 7th May. Check out the new trailer below and enjoy!

“Freddy Krueger returns in “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” a contemporary re-imagining of the horror classic.

A group of suburban teenagers share one common bond: they are all being stalked by Freddy Krueger, a horribly disfigured killer who hunts them in their dreams. As long as they stay awake, they can protect one another…but when they sleep, there is no escape.

Donning Freddy’s trademark fedora, red-and-green striped sweater, and four-bladed glove is Academy Award® nominee Jackie Earle Haley (“Little Children,” “Watchmen”).

The film is being directed by award-winning music video and commercial director Samuel Bayer (Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Green Day’s “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”), marking his feature film debut.

A new poster has been released for the A Nightmare on Elm Street reboot over on MySpace which stars Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Kellan Lutz, Thomas Dekker and Clancy Brown and is directed by Samuel Bayer. They’ve also told us that we can also expect the final trailer for the movie this Thursday. We’ll obvioualy bring it to you as soon as it goes live.

Click the image to enalrge.

“Freddy Krueger returns in “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” a contemporary re-imagining of the horror classic.

A group of suburban teenagers share one common bond: they are all being stalked by Freddy Krueger, a horribly disfigured killer who hunts them in their dreams. As long as they stay awake, they can protect one another…but when they sleep, there is no escape.

Donning Freddy’s trademark fedora, red-and-green striped sweater, and four-bladed glove is Academy Award® nominee Jackie Earle Haley (“Little Children,” “Watchmen”).

The film is being directed by award-winning music video and commercial director Samuel Bayer (Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Green Day’s “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”), marking his feature film debut.

This new poster ties in nicely with these new images that Jon posted earlier today. A Nightmare on Elm Street is released in cinemas 7th May.

There’s a number of reports coming out over from the US blogs regarding a set visit of The Nightmare of Elm Street remake and while we’re not going to get invited to fly over to check out the Samuel Bayer directed slasher, but we’ve got the next best thing.

MovieGod.de have a few new pictures from the remake and they look suitably slasheriffic (I’m sure that’s a real word), all high-school and screaming.

With the first pics of Jackie Earle Haley are Freddy Kruger already out you can bet that the marketing machine will start churning out more of these before the first proper trailer hits.

Recently HeyUGuys went Freddy Krazy (including Gary meeting the man behind the mask), so it’s fitting that we get to see a few pictures of the Platinum Dunes Remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street.

As you can see from the pictures below director Samuel Bayer has kept the iconic elements of the Wes Craven classic, in fact they could be photos from the original, and Jackie Earle Haley looks very Freddy-esque in silhouette at least. It’ll be interesting to see Haley’s portrayal of this horror icon, and whether the Scream generation post modernism means that Freddy will keep the wisecracks, or if the film goes all out gut wrenching horror.

These shots come to us from Omelete (via TotalFilm), and point to a faithful recreation of the fire, clawfingers and fear of the original.

Thanks for reading my “VS” series of articles over the last 3-4 days. I took on Jason Vorhees, Michael Myers and Freddy Krueger and i feel slightly disturbed afer seeing so much blood, gore and murder.

After 29 films, over 43 hours of horror, over 600 gallons of blood, over 270 slaughtered people shared between three iconic horror movie icons, here is the verdict of who is the champion slasher.

Firstly all three characters have provided me with an incredibly fun experience as i have not seen all the films before and watching them in sequence has added more enjoyment and also annoyance in seeing how the characters develop, how the stories evolve and how the mythology of each character has grown.

A consistent factor of all three characters is that their stories all followed a complete nonsense storyline linking one sequel to the next that tried to add something new each time which often never worked and left the film lacking the soul and scariness that made all three of their debut films stand out and forever memorable in our nightmares.

Round one:- Best image

All three have a striking image that is a powerful presence on the screen and is completely bowel exploding if you ever faced them in a dark alley.

Freddy Krueger’s burnt face, stripy outfit, killer glove and Fedora hat is a simple but memorable look and I bet if you ever see a green and red stripy jumper anywhere you will instantly think of Freddy Krueger. He is also quite comical which takes the edge off.

Jason Voorhees Jump suit, Hockey mask and Machete is again a well known and loved look, but its surely the hockey mask thats the main iconic association with the big murderous lump, and again if you ever see a Ice hockey mask you brain will first think of Jason before moving to the sport. Jason’s slow walking, size and presence is dam terrifying.

Michael Myers sports a blue boiler suit, a huge kitchen knife and the James T Kirk face mask, Although not as visibly terrifying as the other two killers, it’s all about the pale emotionless face that makes it work so well.

Winner: Jason Voorhees
A tough one and for me Jason only just beats Freddy due to Freddy’s comical side when he kills which makes Jason that little bit more scary.

Round two:- Most kills

I tried my best to keep score of all the kills but at some points there was a slaughter house amount of bodies so it was difficult to keep track.

Jason Voorhees has killed approximately 146 people in just 12 films, thats an average of 12.2 slaughters a film.

Michael Myers has killed approximately 94 people in 10 films, an average of 9.4 murders a film

Freddy Krueger has killed approximately 35 people in 8 films, just an average of 4.4 massacre’s a film.

Winner: Jason Voorhees
By a country mile, doesn’t have a set vendetta so just kills anyone he sees, a killing machine.

Round Three:- Killing at the Box Office

Jason Voohees earned a total of $465,239,523 in all his films which is an average of $38,769,960 per film

Michael Myers earned a total of $347,453,567 in all his films which is an average of $38, 605,952 per film

Freddy Krueger earned a total of $339,706,250 in all his films which is an average of $42,463,281 per film

Winner: Freddy Krueger
Freddy certainly drew in the audiences for his films and was the most consistent earner over his run of films.

Round four:- Best Kills overall

Jason Voorhees murdered in some of the funniest ways, whether it was smashing a girl in a sleeping bag against a tree or freezing a girls face in Liquid Nitrogen and smashing it on a table, they were enjoyable, a bit tongue in cheek and at times very brutal which is everything you want and look forward in a horror film.

Michael Myers murdered in a more brutal way than the other two and in the new reboot films crossed the line and entered a more realistic approach at the killings which i found difficult, even after sitting through all the other films.

Freddy Krueger Killed with a sense of humor, whether it was using a video game to kill his victims, turning into TV’s or eating future A-List celebrities in a bed and exploding in a shower of blood. Freddy’s kills also had a bit of imagination as they were set in dreams and the possibilities were endless.

Winner: Jason Voorhees
Again just beating Freddy in the quality of kills, The sleeping bag one alone was enough to win but as shown in my review of Jason his kills were the right mix of brutality and enjoyment.

Round Five: Story

Jason Voohees had a barmy story line but started of strongly with his mother, Pamela Voorhees being the murderer avenging his death. Then Jason takes centre stage going on a murdering rampage in each film, becoming supernatural after being struck with lightening and going onto fight Freddy Krueger and winning and then finally going where no man has gone before into the year 2455.
There was a slight stutter half way through the series as Jason was replaced by Tommy Jarvis as the new killer which was scrapped in the next film. A huge disappointment was the Jason goes to hell movie but apart from that it had a set formula that worked but was overused over the 12 film run.
A reboot was introduced to a new generation that didn’t work and added nothing new for Jason.

Michael Myers had the biggest balls up in terms of storyline, the writers tried to explain him by bringing in a druid cult that protected him and a curse that flowed from family to family which just didn’t work and ruined what was just a psycho killer trying to kill his family. Again the writers braved the idea of introducing a new killer in Michael’s Niece but again this was dropped in the following sequel. Halloween reached the lowest point of all 29 films in Halloween Resurrection which was the biggest load of rubbish I have ever seen.

Freddy Krueger had the biggest potential to do what ever he wanted as the writers were not really restricted by story line and could dream up anything they wanted as long as they kept to the premise that Freddy killed in your dreams, But they didn’t and created some nonsense stories of babies dreaming and unimaginative ways of killing Freddy.
The stories did stick with the Elm Street children of Freddy’s killers and also the excellent story expansion of the birth of Freddy which added a disturbing back story to his evil.

Winner: Jason Voorhees
Non-complicated stories which progressed in better directions than the other characters, Jason is just Jason and he’s a heartless unemotional killer who doesn’t stop at anything. No complicated explanations of what he is and he went into space and became Robo-Jason.

Round 6: Speed of the hunt

Jason Voorhees is a slow lumbering menace who never runs but still always catches his prey. Sometimes he walks pretty fast but his victims just end up in a cabin or trip up so he never has to break sweat to catch his play thing.

Freddy Krueger can run with the best of them, appear where ever he wants in your dreams or even turn into a car or probably any other thing he wants to get you. You have no chance of getting away unless you burn yourself or rely on a friend who hopefully hasn’t been eaten by his bed, to get you out of your dream.

Michael Myers is another walker who choses not to run, but you know off camera he does a little sprint to hide behind a tree or fence when you turn away for a second and look back to find that he’s gone. One time Michael did steal a car and do some chasing but that didn’t last long as it’s not as scary.

Winner: Freddy Krueger
He’s the only one who travels above a fast walk and can appear where ever he choses in dream land so no competition.

Final Round: Most times killed

Jason Voorhees was apparently killed as a child but probably wasn’t but he was definitely killed at the end of part 4 and part 8. He was later killed again at the end of Jason X, or so we are led to believe but also came out on top, or at least intact in the battle with Freddy, so that’s Three deaths to Jason.

Freddy Krueger was killed at the end of Part 6 and again in essence in A new Nightmare but never really completely killed in any other movie, came off second best to Jason in their VS movie and was left with just his head, so thats two Deaths for Freddy.

Michael Myers was never been killed in any film apart from the Halloween remake in 2009, although presumed dead in every other film he has always got up and carried on his merry way. So just the one for Michael

Winner: Michael Myers

Overall Winner: Jason Voorhees

With a grand total of 4 out 7 wins Jason is the deserved winner of the greatest Killer of all time, Freddy came in second with two victories and Michael in last with the one. Well done Jason.

Now a few videos of our killers in action and other related stuff. Enjoy.

Johnny Depp’s superb cameo in A Nightmare on Elm Street part 6

All the Friday 13th Deaths if you can handle it!

All the Nightmare on Elm Street Deaths back to back

I couldn’t find a Michael Myers tribute without an annoying sountrack so look yourself.

Thanks for reading.

Blood: The Last Vampire fights its way to Blu-ray and DVD November 2. The movie is a slick and stylised English adaptation of the hugely popular cult hit anime series of the same name. The movie is full of blood and gore, so in celebration of this release, we have compiled a short list of some of the bloodiest films to date. Chances are, if you loved these films and relished the blood, then you will love Blood: The Last Vampire. The name speaks for itself!

Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)

It is clear to see that Blood: The Last Vampire sticks true to its gory genre. In many of the scenes, Saya is surrounded by a group of demons. The creativity of their deaths is the winning factor here, for example in one scene she decapitates a demon by throwing a metal grate at it, and slices another in half to create an upward blood fountain, always escaping the blood spurts after killing someone. Ultimate gore!

The Shining (1980)

In The Shining Wendy sees blood rushing out of elevator doors which sloshes down the hallway. What puts this scene onto our list is the sheer amount of blood on display! It is a sea of blood. It flows like a river and encapsulates the viewer. It’s pretty shocking for a film of its time, and a timeless classic to this day. Not to mention the rest of the films climatic expertise and creepiness.

Blade (1998)

Perhaps one of the most creative uses of blood is seen in Blade. Picture the scene ““ clubbers dancing away at a night club, when blood starts spraying out of the fire sprinklers all over the patrons below. To your typical clubber, it’s pretty sick. However, naturally there are some vampires in the club, who are thrown into ecstasy, and start to gyrate with each other under the slick red rain. Enter Blade, who proceeds to kill the instantly identifiable vampires by shooting and stabbing them. Lots and lots of blood, in a contemporary setting, what more could a horror fan want?

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

In A Nightmare on Elm Street we witness an unbelievable amount of blood in a very familiar place- one’s bed. Dragged into the middle of his bed by the infamous Freddy, Glenn is literally sucked into the underworld. Following his being dragged down into the depths, copious amounts of blood then spray aggressively onto the ceiling. The Blood shoots out of it like a geyser, or a high powered pressure washer. It’s all pretty surreal and strangely amusing to watch. His screaming mother only adds to the dark humour.

Kill Bill (2003)

When one thinks of bloody films, of course Kill Bill comes to mind. Specifically the scenes from The Bride where “˜88′ crazy suited men try to kill her, but get a little more than they have bargained for. And the highlight of this bloody battle? When The Bride kills one of the 88′s by pulling his eye out completely. She also does a break dance move and cuts the shins, ankles, and legs of the 88′s, spraying their blood everywhere. That girl can move, and it is mesmerising yet stimulating to watch!

Saw (2004)

Another high contender in the gore stakes is the Saw collection. In one particular scene in the first Saw, Amanda’s head is in a reverse bear trap. There is a key to unlock it, but it’s buried in the guts of her seemingly dead roommate. In true Saw fashion, Amanda is expected to use a knife to retrieve the key from his stomach. The next few minutes see her riffling through his liver, intestine and other organs. As one can imagine, this is quite a messy job and she ends up covered in his blood and guts. Several points for creativity!

Scream (1996)

No horror movie list would be complete without reference to the ultimate classic, Scream. Let’s take the Casey Becker scene. She is running from the killer and, well, she doesn’t get very far. He stabs her in the chest, slits her throat, and then continues to stab away until she couldn’t be any deader, and his knife couldn’t be any redder. He kills her brutally with a kitchen knife! Lovely and lots of blood for good measure too.

Final Destination 2 (2003)

Final Destination 2- or actually any of the Final Destination collection- wins where gore is concerned. In this particular scene we see another incredibly gruesome and original death take place. A woman is involved in a car accident that causes a piece of pipe to break in her car. Whilst fire fighters use machinery to free her from the mangled car, the airbag goes off and the back of her head is thrown onto the broken pipe. Her death is unexpected and sudden, leaving her with a pipe coming out her forehead, with brain matter and a pool of blood streaming down her face.

Hannibal (2001)

Another master of creativity would be Mr. Hannibal Lecter. Remember the scene where he tied up Detective Pazzi with duct tape in Hannibal? Having secured one end of a rope round the detective and the other around a separate chair, he sliced his abdomen and threw him off a balcony. The rope around the chair stopped Pazzi mid fall, but not his guts. These kept falling, out through the hole in his stomach, and spilled onto the ground below as the force of gravity took its toll. What an ingenious, blood-thirsty, gory way to kill.

Carrie (1976)

Carrie takes blood to the high school movie. A geek that falls victim of the bitchy girls at school thinks she has finally overcome it all when she wins the coveted title of prom queen. Unfortunately for her, some of her tormentors manage to tip a bucket of pigs over her whilst on stage, in front of the entire student body. The neat thing about this scene is the realism, the fact that it could actually happen. As Carrie stands dripping in blood, the scene is compounded by the awkward silence that follows and the true horror of her situation comes to light.

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