Scully1888
06-24-2004, 03:27 AM
According to this interview, Robert Englund is presenting some kind of Fear Factor-type program for the Horror Channel (the US one).
It's going to be called Nightmare on Elm Street: Real Nightmares and here's what Englund has to say about it on the Horror Channel's website:
It’s a new world, but I figure . . . you know . . . a good way to keep young is to keep new challenges going. And I’m working with some really interesting guys. One of my favorite shows on TV is the Penn & Teller: Bullshit! show, and one of those guys is onboard as the Executive Producer. Also Jon Kroll, who had two of the biggest hits with Big Brother and The Amazing Race. They are both really fun guys, and they’ve brought along this special effects guy Jon worked with who did Star Wars and X-Men 2. He’s going to recreate little short, special effects versions of people’s nightmares. So I’m really looking forward to it. I keep telling everybody we’re going to learn so much from the fans.
That’s where we’re really going to define the show -- from the input from the fans. The common denominator of their nightmares and their fears and the kind of nightmares they’d like to see and the kind of nightmares that we find recurring amongst the fans. We’re going to be going all over America, too, which is going to be interesting. That’s one of the things that attracted me. I’m trying to get some theme shows. Of course, I’m so corny – I think like [in Freddy voice] SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS.
I’m the host, but I’m also the field guy. I’m going to be sort of like Robert Englund, Horror Actor/Host – a little bit of the Vincent Price thing. But then I’m also on the road. I’m like a field correspondent, a journalist, so I will be going out. We actually go to people’s houses. I’ll knock on the door, and they’re going to open it up and I’ll be there. I’ll say something like, “I understand there’s a nightmare on your street.” Then I’ll go inside and they’ll tell me the nightmare. While they tell me their nightmare, we’ll see this wonderfully recreated short film by Pete Kuran, the guy who worked on Star Wars and X-Men 2. And then we will actually bring them into an event contestant situation where the nightmare will be recreated almost like a Fear Factor element. The nastiest one I’ve heard – just to show you how far out these guys are – is from a fan who has a recurring nightmare where he’s trapped by a minotaur, half-man/half-bull. And their idea is to build a Plexiglas maze and put the contestant in it with a wild bull.
And he won’t know that the maze with the bull and the maze that he’s in don’t actually meet. He’s going to think it’s just one maze and he better go the right way to get out or the bull will get him. In other words, you can understand the dramatic possibilities here. You’re going to have a bull with a big blubbery snout against Plexiglas, and the guy’s going to think he’s going to run right into this bull.
My feeling is that we’ve got to really select the submissions carefully. And really look for those common denominators like people that are having nightmares about being stuck in an elevator and then segue that contestant-wise into maybe the buried alive nightmare – things like that – as well as just leaving our heads open. I was talking to my nephew, who was like 6’2” when he was 14-1/2 years old, and he skateboards and snowboards and is cool and into hip-hop, right? But his mother, who’s a fashion designer, drags him along to an antique store with antique dolls in it. It completely freaked this kid out. He’s a big giant surfer kid, but he couldn’t handle the old porcelain doll faces that are cracked and discolored – kind of like death heads. So I was just thinking as an example about why we have to have an open mind. Can you imagine if I could get my nephew in a room on a cot with floor-to-ceiling doll heads with little votive candles in front of them all, and in the middle of the night one of them, which is animatronic like Chucky, starts saying, “Hey, Larry, wake up!” We could just mess with his head and see what happens when he’s in his nightmare. There are a lot of personal demons and psychology they’re going to have to confront, which really changes it from a Fear Factor type show. While they are telling me their nightmare, we’ll actually see with actors and special effects what their dream is. And then we put them into a facsimile of it.
He says a hell of a lot more below in this link:
http://www.horrorchannel.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=45&mode=nocomments&order=0&thold=0
Personally I think it sounds extremely interesting... I just hope Sky One or someone picks it up in the UK.
It's going to be called Nightmare on Elm Street: Real Nightmares and here's what Englund has to say about it on the Horror Channel's website:
It’s a new world, but I figure . . . you know . . . a good way to keep young is to keep new challenges going. And I’m working with some really interesting guys. One of my favorite shows on TV is the Penn & Teller: Bullshit! show, and one of those guys is onboard as the Executive Producer. Also Jon Kroll, who had two of the biggest hits with Big Brother and The Amazing Race. They are both really fun guys, and they’ve brought along this special effects guy Jon worked with who did Star Wars and X-Men 2. He’s going to recreate little short, special effects versions of people’s nightmares. So I’m really looking forward to it. I keep telling everybody we’re going to learn so much from the fans.
That’s where we’re really going to define the show -- from the input from the fans. The common denominator of their nightmares and their fears and the kind of nightmares they’d like to see and the kind of nightmares that we find recurring amongst the fans. We’re going to be going all over America, too, which is going to be interesting. That’s one of the things that attracted me. I’m trying to get some theme shows. Of course, I’m so corny – I think like [in Freddy voice] SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS.
I’m the host, but I’m also the field guy. I’m going to be sort of like Robert Englund, Horror Actor/Host – a little bit of the Vincent Price thing. But then I’m also on the road. I’m like a field correspondent, a journalist, so I will be going out. We actually go to people’s houses. I’ll knock on the door, and they’re going to open it up and I’ll be there. I’ll say something like, “I understand there’s a nightmare on your street.” Then I’ll go inside and they’ll tell me the nightmare. While they tell me their nightmare, we’ll see this wonderfully recreated short film by Pete Kuran, the guy who worked on Star Wars and X-Men 2. And then we will actually bring them into an event contestant situation where the nightmare will be recreated almost like a Fear Factor element. The nastiest one I’ve heard – just to show you how far out these guys are – is from a fan who has a recurring nightmare where he’s trapped by a minotaur, half-man/half-bull. And their idea is to build a Plexiglas maze and put the contestant in it with a wild bull.
And he won’t know that the maze with the bull and the maze that he’s in don’t actually meet. He’s going to think it’s just one maze and he better go the right way to get out or the bull will get him. In other words, you can understand the dramatic possibilities here. You’re going to have a bull with a big blubbery snout against Plexiglas, and the guy’s going to think he’s going to run right into this bull.
My feeling is that we’ve got to really select the submissions carefully. And really look for those common denominators like people that are having nightmares about being stuck in an elevator and then segue that contestant-wise into maybe the buried alive nightmare – things like that – as well as just leaving our heads open. I was talking to my nephew, who was like 6’2” when he was 14-1/2 years old, and he skateboards and snowboards and is cool and into hip-hop, right? But his mother, who’s a fashion designer, drags him along to an antique store with antique dolls in it. It completely freaked this kid out. He’s a big giant surfer kid, but he couldn’t handle the old porcelain doll faces that are cracked and discolored – kind of like death heads. So I was just thinking as an example about why we have to have an open mind. Can you imagine if I could get my nephew in a room on a cot with floor-to-ceiling doll heads with little votive candles in front of them all, and in the middle of the night one of them, which is animatronic like Chucky, starts saying, “Hey, Larry, wake up!” We could just mess with his head and see what happens when he’s in his nightmare. There are a lot of personal demons and psychology they’re going to have to confront, which really changes it from a Fear Factor type show. While they are telling me their nightmare, we’ll actually see with actors and special effects what their dream is. And then we put them into a facsimile of it.
He says a hell of a lot more below in this link:
http://www.horrorchannel.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=45&mode=nocomments&order=0&thold=0
Personally I think it sounds extremely interesting... I just hope Sky One or someone picks it up in the UK.