Mark Patton!!

It's very, very awesome news, since his absence would have left a huge hole in the documentary. Things were looking pretty bad in terms of tracking him down -- when the documentary's makers took to asking anyone on the internet his whereabouts, I thought that was it, Patton wouldn't be found.

I'm a huge Part 2 fan and always thought Patton did a great job in it. I'm a little disappointed by that snippet they had with him at Dread Central, where it sounds almost like he surrenders to a defeatist attitude. Maybe I just took it the wrong way. I'm a bit upset that he said Jack Sholder was the wrong director for the movie. I really like Sholder's genre works, and always thought he seemed to be the glue of Freddy's Revenge -- that he was the one who placed the characters over effects and gore. Even if Sholder's criticized for adding a few touches of humor, humor's an important part in storytelling, as long as it doesn't come at the cost of characters' intelligence. (And in the case of a Freddy movie, as long as it doesn't come at the cost of Freddy's scariness.)

Mark also mentioned something about Sholder badmouthing him on the DVD interviews, but I don't remember that. Sholder can be pretty frank, but I don't recall him saying anything negative about Mark. Sholder just remarks about Patton's seeming effeminate, but said that he "liked [Mark] a lot as an actor." Was there a release I missed, or something in the Nightmare Encyclopedia's labyrinth I didn't find?

Oh yeah. I read that it took a little bit of digging to even find him. They found him in Mexico and flew him to L.A. for the interview.

in the extended interviews on the second disc they captured him and Kim Myers meeting for the first time in almost 25 years, they have a pretty moving moment.