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Nightmare on Gender Street
Actor Robert Englund has begun filming a horror comedy that would have his alter ego, Freddy Krueger, scratching his eyes out.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 11:45 PM
By FilmStew Staff
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From boogeyman to bio-geneticist
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At the beginning of the millennium, writer-director Max Mitchell scored with his gay parenting comedy Get Your Stuff, in which a pair of upscale Beverly Hills men find their good intentions leading them down a bad road. So it’s perhaps not surprising that his belated follow-up film, even though it falls in the realm of horror-comedy, is basically mining the same territory.
In Horror in the Wind, currently shooting in New Mexico, an airborne virus wreaks havoc as it reverses the gender* of all who come into contact with it. Nightmare on Elm Street star Robert Englund is top-billed, and Mitchell’s company Revision Studios based in High Rolls, NM is producing.
Mitchell is nothing if not resourceful. His latest feature is shooting under SAG’s Ultra-Low-Budget Contract, while another documentary project, The Maxmobile, has been inspired by his Great Uncle. Though not as well known as Henry Ford, David A. Maxwell in fact invented the automobile beforehand, in Canada, and today is remembered only via a single remaining car held at a museum in Watford, Ontario.
Earlier this summer, Mitchell’s short film The Spirit and the Earth won a Mobiflick award at the New Mexico stop of Pah-Fest, a traveling digital filmmaking road show, with its low-key look at the San Jose Mission in Laguna Pueblo, NM.
*Correction - 10/10/07: The plot of the film changes people's personal sexual orientation, not their physical male-female gender. That's actually what we meant to share on the late night fly (this article was posted at 11:45 pm PT), but of course to communicate the proper meaning it helps to use the proper word(s). FilmStew regrets the error.
Correction - 10/12/07: Despite a number of previous news reports, including this one, the producers have confirmed that Robert Englund is not in fact in this film. It is FilmStew's policy to normally always confirm this type of information with the production company, so the writer in question is being forced to watch all Nightmare on Elm Street films as punishment.
What's amazing in the case of that Arizona newspaper report is that one reporter with the publication has a small role in Horror in the Wind. So you'd think they'd be able to suss out with accuracy who the principals are. Oops, look who's talking.
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