Posts tagged Christopher Griffiths
An Interview with Christopher Griffiths and Gary Smart, Directors of 'Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story!'

As “Dead Mouse Productions,” Gary Smart and Christopher Griffiths have been making horror documentaries for a decade.  You may have seen their comprehensive retrospectives “You’re So Cool, Brewster: The Story of Fright Night,” “Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellraiser II” or their recent “Pennywise: The Story of It.”  Dead Mouse’s latest doc, “Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story,” is a slight change of pace that focuses on the career of one actor.  Smart and Griffiths sat down to discuss their latest film, how documentary filmmaking has changed since they started, and the “Zelig”-like career of the iconic Robert Englund.

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Better Late Than Never: A Review of “Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story!”

No matter how much special effects makeup he wears, or how thick of an accent his characters may have, you instantly recognize Robert Englund in any film he’s in.  Once he shows up as a creepy redneck, an eccentric doctor, or a hapless alien, we all instantly turn into that Leonardo DiCaprio meme.  His most recognizable character, of course, is Freddy Kruger, the dream-stalking child murderer with a razor glove.  Unless you’re a horror fan, Robert Englund and Freddy Kruger are one in the same, much to the chagrin of many, including I’m sure, Englund himself.  Enter directors Gary Smart and Christopher Griffiths, who’ve made “Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story,” the definitive documentary on the guy who scared us stiff.

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