‘RONDO AND BOB’ CULT HORROR DOCUMENTARY WILL RELEASE ON STREAMING PLATFORMS JUNE 7

TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE art director, Robert A. “Bob” Burns details his search for cult actor, Rondo Hatton, in the upcoming documentary, RONDO AND BOB, which will be released on streaming platforms June 7, 2022 from Electric Entertainment.

Bob Burns became a significant name in horror art direction with his work on the original TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, THE HILLS HAVE EYES, RE-ANIMATOR, and THE HOWLING. While attending the University of Texas, he edited the Texas Ranger humor magazine and discovered Rondo Hatton, a former Tampa, Florida, sports reporter, who contracted acromegaly, a condition that caused his face, hands and feet to grow out of proportion to the rest of his body. It caused the former athlete and All-American kid to close himself off from the outside world until he met his second wife Mae. Together they went to Hollywood where Hatton became the Creeper in a series of films starting with the Sherlock Holmes story The Pearl of Death. He died of a heart attack brought on by his medical condition.

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RONDO AND BOB weaves together the stories of Burns and Hatton and delves into their horror filmographies and personal life stories, mixing interviews, recreations, with archival film footage and rare video of Burns and the people he tried desperately to love. Along the way it examines vital touchstone films of the horror genre and tells the true stories of two of its important players.

The film, written and directed by Joe O’Connell, features veteran stuntman Gary Kent (Bubba Ho-Tep, “The Green Hornet”), actress Dee Wallace (Cujo, The Howling), Re-Animator director Stuart Gordon, Joseph Middleton, Joe Bob Briggs, Hills Have Eyes producer Peter Locke, Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s Edwin Neal, filmmaker Fred Olen Ray, and many more.