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  “Game of Love” - Santana

  “Walk on the Wild Side” - Lou Reed

  “Like a Rolling Stone” - Bob Dylan

  APPENDIX 4.5

  FREDDY KRUEGER’S

  BOILER ROOM MEGAMIX

  FROM HELL

  “Freddy Krueger” - Stormtroopers of Death

  “In the Name of Freddy, Four Fingers in the Air” - F.K.Ü. (Freddy Krueger’s Underwear)

  “Four Fingers Fatal to the Flesh” - F.K.Ü.

  “A Nightmare on My Street” - DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince

  “Are You Ready for Freddy?” - The Fat Boys

  “Raise Your Fist and Yell” - Alice Cooper

  “Welcome to My Nightmare” - Alice Cooper

  “Dream Warriors” - Dokken

  “In My Dreams” - Dokken

  “Problem Solver” - Lil Wayne

  “Haters” - Lil Wayne

  “American Gangster” - Jay-Z

  “I Can Be” - Eminem

  “Trust” - Limp Bizkit

  “Throw It Up” - Busta Rhymes

  “How U Get a Record Deal?” - Big Daddy Kane

  “Money” - The Game

  “Dis Bitch, Dat Hoe” - Three 6 Mafia

  “No Limit Soldiers” - TRU

  APPENDIX 5

  ROBERT ENGLUND’S SELECTED

  FILM– AND VIDEOGRAPHY

  1974

  * * *

  FILM

  Buster and Billie (w/Jan-Michael Vincent and Pamela Sue Martin)

  1975

  * * *

  FILM

  Hustle (w/Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson, Eileen Brennan, and Ernest Borgnine)

  Slashed Dreams

  1976

  * * *

  FILM

  A Star Is Born (w/Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, and Gary Busey)

  Stay Hungry (w/Jeff Bridges, Sally Field, and Arnold Schwarzenegger)

  St. Ives (w/Charles Bronson, John Houseman, and Jacqueline Bisset)

  1977

  * * *

  FILM

  Eaten Alive (aka Brutes and Savages) (w/Neville Brand, Mel Ferrer, and Carolyn Jones)

  The Last of the Cowboys (aka The Great Smokey Roadblock) (w/Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan and Susan Sarandon)

  TELEVISION

  The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (w/Shaun Cassidy, Parker Stevenson, Pamela Sue Martin, and Jamie Lee Curtis)

  Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy (TV movie w/Peter Strauss)

  1978

  * * *

  FILM

  Big Wednesday (w/Jan-Michael Vincent, Gary Busey, and Patti D’Arbanville)

  Bloodbrothers (w/Richard Gere, Paul Sorvino, and Marilu Henner)

  The Fifth Floor (w/Bo Hopkins and Sharon Farrell)

  TELEVISION

  The Courage and the Passion (TV movie w/Desi Arnaz Jr.)

  Police Woman (w/Angie Dickenson)

  1979

  * * *

  TELEVISION

  California Fever

  Mind over Murder (TV movie w/Bruce Davison)

  The Ordeal of Patty Hearst (TV movie w/Dennis Weaver)

  Paris (w/James Earl Jones)

  Soap (w/Richard Mulligan and Billy Crystal)

  1980

  * * *

  TELEVISION

  Charlie’s Angels (w/Jacklyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd, and Shelley Hack)

  Flo

  1981

  * * *

  FILM

  Dead & Buried (w/James Farentino)

  Galaxy of Terror (w/Eddie Albert, Erin Moran, Ray Walston, and Zalman King)

  TELEVISION

  CHiPS (w/Erik Estrada)

  Hart to Hart (w/Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers)

  Walking Tall

  1982

  * * *

  FILM

  Don’t Cry, It’s Only Thunder (w/Dennis Christopher and Susan Saint James)

  TELEVISION

  Cassie & Company (w/Angie Dickinson)

  Mysterious Two (TV movie w/John Forsythe)

  Thou Shalt Not Kill (TV movie w/Lee Grant and Robert Culp)

  1983

  * * *

  TELEVISION

  The Fighter (TV movie w/Gregory Harrison)

  Hobson’s Choice (TV movie w/Lillian Gish, Jack Warden, and Richard Thomas)

  I Want to Live (TV movie w/Lindsay Wagner, Harry Dean Stanton, and Martin Balsam)

  Journey’s End (TV movie w/George Wendt)

  Manimal

  Simon & Simon

  Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land (TV movie w/Lee Majors, Hal Linden, and Lauren Hutton)

  V (TV movie w/Faye Grant)

  1984

  * * *

  FILM

  A Nightmare on Elm Street (w/Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, and Johnny Depp)

  TELEVISION

  Alice

  V: The Final Battle (miniseries w/Faye Grant and Michael Ironside)

  1985

  * * *

  FILM

  A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (w/ Mark Patton and Kim Myers)

  TELEVISION

  Hunter (w/Fred Dryer)

  Night Court (w/Harry Anderson)

  V (series w/Faye Grant and Michael Ironside)

  1986

  * * *

  FILM

  Never Too Young to Die (w/John Stamos and Gene Simmons)

  TELEVISION

  Knight Rider (w/David Hasselhoff)

  MacGyver (w/Richard Dean Anderson)

  North and South, Book II (miniseries w/Kirstie Alley and David Carradine)

  1987

  * * *

  FILM

  A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (w/ Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, Laurence Fishburne, and Craig Wasson)

  TELEVISION

  Downtown (w/Mariska Hargitay, Blair Underwood, and Michael Nouri)

  Infidelity (TV movie w/Courtney Thorne-Smith)

  1988

  * * *

  FILM

  A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (w/ Tuesday Knight and Ken Sagoes)

  976-EVIL (Director)

  1989

  * * *

  FILM

  C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud

  A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (w/ Lisa Wilcox and Erika Anderson)

  Phantom of the Opera: The Motion Picture (w/Bill Nighy, Molly Shannon, and Jill Schoelen)

  1990

  * * *

  FILM

  The Adventures of Ford Fairlaine (w/Andrew Dice Clay, Wayne Newton, Priscilla Presley, and Gilbert Gottfried)

  TELEVISION

  Freddy’s Nightmares

  1991

  * * *

  FILM

  Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (w/Lisa Zane, Shon Greenblatt, Breckin Meyer, and Johnny Depp)

  1992

  * * *

  FILM

  Dance Macabre

  TELEVISION

  Nightmare Café (w/Jack Coleman and Lindsay Frost)

  1993

  * * *

  FILM

  Night Terrors (w/Chandra West)

  1994

  * * *

  FILM

  New Nightmare (aka Wes Craven’s New Nightmare) w/Heather Langenkamp, Wes Craven, John Saxon, and Bob Shaye)

  TELEVISION

  Mortal Fear (TV movie w/Gregory Harrison and Joanna Kerns)

  A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle (TV movie w/Hal Holbrook and Dixie Carter)

  1995

  * * *

  FILM

  The Mangler (w/Ted Levine)

  TELEVISION

  Legend

  The Unspoken Truth (TV movie w/Lea Thompson)

  1996

  * * *

  FILM

  La Lengua Asesina (w/Melinda Clarke)

  The Vampyre Wars (w/Chris Sarandon, Amanda Plummer, and Maximillian Schell)

  TELEVISION

  Babylon 5 (w/Peter Jurasik)


  Sliders (w/Jerry O’Connell and John Rhys-Davies)

  Walker, Texas Ranger (w/Chuck Norris)

  1997

  * * *

  FILM

  Galactic Odyssey (w/Adam Baldwin)

  The Paper Brigade

  Perfect Target

  Wishmaster

  TELEVISION

  Married … with Children (w/Ed O’Neill, Katey Sagal, and Christina Applegate)

  1998

  * * *

  FILM

  Meet the Deedles (w/Paul Walker, Dennis Hopper, and John Ashton)

  Strangeland (w/Linda Cardellini and Dee Snider)

  Urban Legend (w/Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, and Tara Reid)

  TELEVISION

  The Simpsons (w/Dan Castellaneta and Hank Azaria)

  1999

  * * *

  FILM

  The Prince and the Surfer

  TELEVISION

  The Hughleys (w/D. L. Hughley)

  The Jamie Foxx Show (w/Jamie Foxx)

  2000

  * * *

  FILM

  Python (TV movie w/Wil Wheaton and Jenny McCarthy)

  2001

  * * *

  TELEVISION

  Charmed (w/Alyssa Milano and Rose McGowan)

  The Nightmare Room

  FILM

  Windfall (TV movie w/Casper Van Dien and Ray Wise)

  2002

  * * *

  FILM

  As a Bad Dream

  Cold Sweat (w/Melinda Clarke)

  Nobody Knows Anything (w/Janeane Garofalo and Margaret Cho)

  Il Ritorno di Cagliostro

  Wish You Were Dead (w/Cary Elwes, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, and Billy Ray Cyrus)

  2003

  * * *

  TELEVISION

  I’m With Her (w/Teri Polo)

  2004

  * * *

  FILM

  Dubbed and Dangerous 3

  Freddy vs. Jason (w/Kelly Rowland, Monica Keena, and Jason Ritter)

  TELEVISION

  Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!

  2005

  * * *

  FILM

  2001 Maniacs (w/Peter Stormare)

  TELEVISION

  Justice League

  Masters of Horror (Showtime)

  2006

  * * *

  FILM

  Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

  Hatchet

  Heartstopper

  2007

  * * *

  FILM

  Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer

  TELEVISION

  The Batman

  Black Swarm (Sci Fi Channel)

  Bodog Music Battle of the Bands

  2008

  * * *

  FILM

  Red (w/Brian Cox and Tom Sizemore)

  Killer Pad (Director)

  Zombie Strippers! (w/Jenna Jameson)

  TELEVISION

  The Spectacular Spider-Man

  2009

  * * *

  FILM

  Night of the Sinner

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  I could probably spend this entire book recalling nuances from the run of one play or the adventures of a single film location. But economy and my desire to give an affectionate survey of my fortunate career prevents that attention to detail. If, after some six decades, recollections and secondhand stories have faded, blended, or lost their proper chronology, I apologize to all participants for any flawed reporting. It’s been a long haul. Regarding the sin of omission, I beg forgiveness of any friends or coworkers who feel slighted by exclusion: surfing buddies, drinking companions, lovers, FX makeup teams, prop crews, costars, and film editors who saved my sorry ass—you know who you are and how much you have meant to me.

  For words of early encouragement, advice, career direction, and teaching: Jean Klenes, Deane Wolfson, Steve Allen, Janice Farquar, James Rawley, Jeff Corey, Paul Lee, Joseph Shaw, John Fernald, and Lawrence Carra.

  For professional guidance, past and present, thank you, Lew Sherrell and Jo Martin, who put up with me during the seventies; Joseph E. Rice, who has returned my calls and been my good friend and agent since 1982; Wayne Rice, whose artistic savvy and foresight as the architect of my finances has given me the freedom to live for the past twenty years in my little bungalow by the sea with my best girl and my old dogs by my side and the happy ghosts of my parents looking on; and Stephen Lo, for all those airline upgrades. And to Harry Abrams, whose letterhead gives this old whore a touch of class.

  To friends old and new, Gary Tigerman, Doug Matheson, Russ Laxson, Steve Smith, Terry Judge, Hugh Corcoran, David Himes, Bruce Gray, Jonathan Benair, Chris Buchinsky, Rick Dano, Anthony Friedkin, David Irving, Don Bajema, Bob Lepucki, Jane Handel, Loris Curci, and my best buddy, Demetre Phillips.

  A heartfelt thank-you to Wes Craven and Tobe Hooper for taking the time to write those kind words, and for hiring me time and again. And thanks to Carly Feingold for her help in wrangling Wes.

  Thanks to everybody at Pocket Books, especially my editor Jaime Costas, VP and Deputy Publisher Anthony Ziccardi, and Publisher Louise Burke, as well as to Jarred Weisfeld and the gang at Objective Entertainment.

  A special thanks to my collaborator, Alan Goldsher, who managed to somehow quickly and accurately assimilate a zillion stories into a cool little book that I’ll always be proud of.