The story revolves around three friends who use money from an insurance claim to move out of their parents' homes. They score a place in the Hollywood Hills and refuse to believe that the house has a dark history.

BD: Tell me, how did Killer Pad come about?

RE: I had had a business relationship with the producer Wayne Rice, he had been wanting to mess around with a low budget teen comedy with horror elements in it. He had some success with some family films, had recently found a wonderful low budget script. I was working as an actor in that low budget genre, so he approached me. We made this movie as a PG-13 film aimed at teenagers, kind of intentionally cheesy. Its sort of a Three Stooges or Abbott and Costello meets Frankenstein, but cheesy in the most fun sense of the word. Fortunately we were able to shoot in Hollywood, which made us able to obtain a great cast, lots of terrific people, even some cameos. Like my friend from the old days Lyn Shay, and Bobby Lee from Mad TV!. We shot on the HD Viper camera, in a great contemporary house, looking nothing like an old Vincent Price house, but with the same energy. It’s a pretty fun and silly little movie.

BD: One of your next projects is The Vij. Is The Vij going to be a similar type of experience?

RE: No polar opposite. It’s got a little more money, and it’s almost romantic in a Phantom of The Opera or Bride of Frankenstein kind of way. My leading ladies, one is a prostitute with a heart of gold, and the other is a dead girl, my sort of Snow White in suspended animation. She is a prisoner of the curse, of the Vij. It’s got a sort of gothic Tim Burton feel with the dead girl. It’s got a timeless sense of legend and myth, and the dialog will be kicked up as such. We are in the midst of casting right now we are after some really big actors like Christopher Lee! In contrast Killer Pad is an extreme low rent silly teen comedy with horror elements, where as the fallen angle of the Vij is a fallen angel who guards the gates of purgatory. This is certainly a new character in the pantheon of horror. He will have the signature elements that the author Gogo had described, with folds of flesh over the eyes and such, but not echoing the design in Pan’s Labyrinth.

BD: What else is coming up next for you?

RE: (Tentatively titled) Sinner is being filmed later this year in Sicily with one of the young girls from Rob Zombie’s Halloween. It’s a gimmick with a ghost that talks to the camera, that’s really interesting and has a lot of potential. Also I hope that we get the financing involved with the sequel to 2001 maniacs Beverly Hellbillies. Director Tim Sullivan is a great comic book fan, and has had great fun last year creating the maniacs comic book. I hope that he gets to knock on some new doors to find the financing because I really love the idea behind the script. The maniacs crossing paths with the likes of Paris Hilton types during a reality show on the road, like the Beverly Hillbillies, and crashing those types together during the making of a reality show. All of the characters are assholes, its like 10 Little Indians with Assholes! I really think they should get a comedic actress like Anna Farris who can really set that stuff up and have fun with it. There was talk that Paris was considering doing it as a send up to her personality, but if I was casting I would go for someone like Anna Farris.

BD: If they come to you to play Freddy ..would you want to?

RE: It’s a remake! It all came about while I was in Italy working on another film, so now I am back in Hollywood trying to play catch up. All I know is that Michael Bay made an announcement that he is producing the remake of the original. I don’t know if it has Wes Cravens blessing, I presume it does. With the success of Rob Zombies remake of Halloween and Hills Have Eyes remake, The Texas Chainsaw remakes, I like both the originals and the remakes. But of all the films I think The original Nightmare on Elm Street is certainly the scariest possible of the 20th century. Because the nature of the story and the stylized surrealism, the dreamscape that unfolds, if any of these movies are need of a remake with the use of new technologies it would seem that A Nightmare on Elm Street is one of them. It really does beg for the new technology, if you could think about the original with the benefit of CG it wouldn’t be a detriment. I don’t think it would hurt it because it’s such a great story and strong classical myth. I don’t know what that means, is he in overalls because he is a janitor, no more sweater, maybe a tool belt or some sort of creative reinterpretation of the original. There is something sacred about classics, regardless of genre, but there is a time and a place for it, I am certainly not appalled with it. I just hope they have Wes’s Blessing and that trust his story. But they could certainly have fun with the dream, sequences and of course re-interpreting Freddy.

I wouldn’t mind playing a cameo; it would be interesting to see if I could play the dream psychiatrist, I have heard that there is an interesting script regarding a prequel to the original going around. But lets face it I’m not a kid anymore; I have done a variety of films in many genres. I came out of that makeup after 10 years, and after I did a whole bunch of different films I did Freddy vs. Jason and have been real busy since. I could probably don the makeup, but they would certainly need a stunt double for the action stuff. I’m only good for about one take; then I get kind of sore.

If someone like Michael Bay who did the Transformers wants to get involved, he would certainly have a love and respect for it, and he and Wes could talk about all the hot young directors out there right now. I just worked with a great kid Adam Green on Hatchet, and Scott Glosserman on Behind the Mask. These guys are so talented, it would seem to me that of all the films that are getting tweaked Nightmare would lend it self to the new technology. I’m not surprised with the recent success of the later remakes, that A Nightmare on Elm Street is being remade.

BD: Did you always love Horror or did that come after your experiences with Freddy Krueger?

RE: I have always loved horror, but I have had a revelation a few months ago . When I was a little boy like 8 or 9, I would go to my godfathers house, he had one whole bedroom of floor to ceiling of coffee table books, ( he was the west coast rep for Simon and Schuster). I remember being dropped off when he would baby-sit me, and I would check out all these books, and I was obsessed with a book called LIFE Goes to the Movies, and I just remember being obsessed with the pictures in the silent film section, in particular the Lon Chaney makeup, and I can remember these pictures vividly. I think that somehow this was something that helped me be convinced by Wes Craven to do the Nightmare series! I really believe that back in those days when I was a kid and those horror films played, they weren’t yet cut apart and they remained their true running time, and I have al these memories and it’s truly something I loved, but not the only kind of movie that I loved. For years I didn’t talk about it because I wanted me to take me seriously as a classical actor.

BD: What ever happened to the TV series Real nightmares?

RE: That was a few years back, Real Nightmares was a reality show in 2004 that didn’t come to fruition, but took up an entire year of my life. We did 5 or 6 episodes and a pilot for CBS, but because it was such a new idea, I don’t want to say horror-reality, but because it was such a new world of them with reality. The only thing they had to use as a point of comparison was Fear Factor, it kept getting to close to what that is. The real idea was very different, where we would comb the United States to find real people with horrific nightmares, then recreating them in Hollywood, when we then dropped the person into them. I was hosting it as a sort of Vincent Price like dark host. When we got it right there was some really interesting one, like an episode with clowns. But many peoples nightmares are sexual or nightmares of abuse, and its prime time television! There eventually were some legalities involved. By the time that finished I had a stack of scripts next to the nightstand, so I just decided to get real busy, and what came out of that was 2001 Maniacs, Hatchet, Red, Jack Brooks Monster Slayer. It’s been a busy time but television is tricky and reality is even trickier, but I learned a lot, which actually served me as a director.

BD: Any last words?

RE: Tell my fans to tell there kids to send out for a pizza and crack open a beer and sit down with Killer pad, its good silly fun and I guarantee that there is some good laughs in it!