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Thank you.

Hi.

My name is Stephen King.

Thank you. Hi. My name is Stephen King.

The ice is gonna break. Bad Rob!

Red Rob!

You guys want to go see a dead body?

Well, sometimes, death is better.

Hello and welcome back to the Kingcast on the Fangoria Podcast Network.

My name is Eric Vespi.

I'm Anthony Bresnikin.

And we are your hosts.

Our guest today is one of the best genre directors of his generation.

He gave us not only one of the best horror remakes of all time. He also gave us one of the best Freddie Krueger films. Maybe some would say the best Freddy Krueger film. I might be in that camp. And that was before he helped launch Jim Carrey into the stratosphere. He's a writer and director behind The Blob, a Nightmare and Elm Street 3, Dream Warriors, The Mask,

and he is a new, more brutal take on the fabulous 80s cheese fest witchboard, which sees release

August 15th in a theater near you. His chosen title is appropriately enough, given his

creative collaborations early in his career, The Shawshank Redemption. We'll dive in to all that and more. Please welcome Chuck Russell to the Kingcast. Welcome, Chuck. Glad to be here. Thank you for having me. Chuck, Eric, I need to add something to the excellent intro you made for him. This is the gentleman who gave us Cameron Diaz. That's true. Did you not discover her? Isn't that her first movie,

The Mask? The discovering part is always an odd. As if on Christopher Columbus, that was a classic

Hollywood search, though. It's true, a very old school to find a lead girl for that movie.

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