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Nick Principe, who slashed his way through the Laid to Rest films as Chromeskull, has shifted his focus from acting to competitive Muay Thai.

Embracing Chromeskull as his fighting nickname, Principe enlisted two artists friends to design shirts to support his new career.

“To mark this special occasion of entering the fight game, and to help pay the staggering medical fees of the license, I got my incredibly talented friends Tom “The Dude Designs” Hodge and Alan Robert to each design a shirt for me,” Principe told Bloody Disgusting. “I can’t thank them enough for helping me.”

Hodge — known for creating retro-style art for the likes of Hobo with a Shotgun, The Innkeepers, and WolfCop — combined Chromeskull with Rocky for a blood-splattered design screen printed on black or pink tees and black or grey crewnecks.

Robert — bassist of influential metal band Life of Agony and illustrator of The Beauty...

We have been getting a lot of prequels in recent years. Some have turned out well, like Furiosa, Orphan: First Kill, Prey, and Pearl. Sometimes they don’t turn out very well, like Leatherface, and sometimes they can be quite divisive, like Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. Good or bad, prequels are here to stay, so we have put together a list of Horror Prequels We Want to See.

Alien Lv-426

Set between the events of Alien and Aliens, this film would explore the lives of the colonists sent to terraform Lv-426. The movie could showcase their daily lives, paying homage to the brief glimpse of their existence seen in Aliens. Then Weyland-Yutani makes the call with the order to investigate the co-ordinates provided by Ripley, the location of the derelict Engineer spacecraft. As we know from Aliens, the investigation goes terribly wrong – and this movie could show exactly how things...

Back in 2009, director Robert Green Hall introduced the world to a chrome-masked maniac called ChromeSkull in the very cool slasher Laid to Rest. A divisive sequel called ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2 followed two years later – and as the years went by, Hall let it be known that he intended to make another sequel called Laid to Rest: Exhumed. Sadly, he wasn’t able to make that movie before he passed away unexpectedly back in 2021. But Nick Principe – who recently wrote and starred in the horror thriller Johnny & Clyde and also played ChromeSkull in both Laid to Rest movies – has revealed to our friends at Bloody Disgusting that he intends to continue the Laid to Rest franchise with a comic book called The Reflection of Fear!

Principe explained why he’s moving forward with a comic book instead of trying to get another Laid to Rest movie into production: “To be totally honest,...

Released in 2009 in the midst of the same neo-slasher run that produced Hatchet’s Victor Crowley and Behind the Mask’s Leslie Vernon, writer/director/special effects makeup artist Robert Hall’s Laid to Rest introduced horror fans to Chromeskull (Nick Principe), a towering slasher in a sleek suit and polished mask who carries out all manner of mayhem while chasing after a hapless group of blue collar victims across a desolate stretch of country under the cover of night. A sequel followed in 2011, continuing on from the previous film’s events and revealing that the vicious killer commands a group of subordinates who do his bidding, including Chromeskull wannabe Preston (Brian Austin Green) and the devious Spann (Danielle Harris). In that film’s closing moments, Chromeskull heads out onto the streets of Hollywood to likely carry out yet another gore-soaked killing spree.

While that sequel’s finale and mid-credits scene teased another installment,...

Vault director Tom DeNucci’s new film Johnny & Clyde is usually referred to as a “crime thriller”, but we’ve also heard that the story shifts gears to become a “balls-to-the-wall slasher/horror” flick. Since I have been a dedicated slasher fan since the 1980s, I’m looking forward to checking it out when it receives a theatrical and VOD release this Friday, May 5th. With the release just a few days away, a trailer for Johnny & Clyde has arrived online and can be seen in the embed above.

Scripted by DeNucci and Nick Principe, Johnny & Clyde follows the two eponymous serial killers who are madly in love and on an endless crime spree. They have their sights set on robbing a prosperous casino run by crime boss Alana and her head of security.

The film stars Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap), Ajani Russell (Betty), Tyson Ritter...

Two of the hard-rock and metal’s loudest musicians, Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy Hale and Lamb of God guitarist Mark Morton, have joined forces for what may be the gentlest song they’ve ever recorded, an acoustic cover of the Black Crowes’ “She Talks to Angels.” The pair previously cut a version of the song for Morton’s solo EP, Ether, which came out over the summer, but they decided to reprise it for Hale’s Raise Your Horns YouTube show.

Hale’s husky voice suits the song well, and when she belts out,...

With nowhere to play a live gig during social distancing, the members of Lamb of God stayed home to perform a couple of songs off their recently released, self-titled eighth album.

In a video that showcases each of the band’s five members raging out at home, the group performs Lamb of God’s “Checkmate” and “New Colossal Hate,” and they also whipped out one of their calling cards, “Laid to Rest,” which appeared on their major-label debut, Ashes of the Wake.

After drummer Art Cruz counts them in, guitarists...

It’s been too long, Chromies! The third chapter of Robert Hall’s Laid to Rest franchise, Laid to Rest: Exhumed, is on its way; and we have a first look at what’s ahead for you just in time for San Diego Comic-Con 2018! The screenplay was written by Hall and remains tightly under wraps. “It’s not […]

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Recent news caused quite the stir as it was revealed director Robert Hall was aiming to revive 1986’s Chopping Mall, only the filmmaker’s intent was to drop the whole killer robot angle. Ya’ know…the sole conceit of the original film? Personally, I think Hall is a fine director (Laid to Rest is one of the best slasher flicks […]...

A woman wakes up in a coffin with no recollection of how she got there. Suffering from memory loss, she struggles to stay alive from a deranged killer called Chrome Skull (Nick Principe), a killer who videos his massacres via a nifty, shoulder mounted camera. We speak to 1-1 with director and writer Robert Hall as well as stars Bobbi Sue Luther, Lena Headey and Thomas Dekker. The cast also includes Kevin Gage, Sean Whalen, Richard Lynch, Nick Principe, Lucas Till, Anthony Fitzgerald, Seri DeYoung and Jana Kramer.