A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET has come and gone and has definitely left a taste in my mouth—a taste I can’t quite identify. Sometimes I think it’s pizza, a treat that lingers as a reminder of how awesome it was to enjoy. Other times it’s like drinking orange juice after you brush your teeth. It’s just wrong and should not have been done. What I’m trying to say is that I may have eaten a few of my words… only a few of them. Just a little snack and not a full spread of “told-you-so.”

Mad science goes sexy! Today FANGORIA TV presents an exclusive video chat (see below the jump) with acclaimed CUBE director Vincenzo Natali, whose new movie, the horror thriller SPLICE, opens June 4 from Warner Bros./Dark Castle. In Part One of our mega on-camera interview, Natali tells Tony Timpone about SPLICE’s controversial premise and how difficult it was to convince people to invest in the production and how HELLBOY’s Guillermo del Toro and 13 GHOSTS’ Joel Silver became involved.

In a genre that tends to celebrate expressionless masks and the interchangeable stuntmen underneath, it’s heartening to see an actual actor like Michael Berryman as busy as he’s ever been. Fango readers may still know him best from his signature performance as the feral desert marauder Pluto in the original THE HILLS HAVE EYES; while audiences were quick to react to the actor’s unique and compelling facial features, it has ultimately been his layered portrayal of a childish savage that has left the real impression over the years.

A couple of weeks ago, we reported on Alan Goldsher’s upcoming novel PAUL IS UNDEAD: THE BRITISH ZOMBIE INVASION, in which the author reimagines the history of The Beatles with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr as zombies. Well, Goldsher is spinning another yarn that mixes monsters with musicians: FRANKENSTEIN HAS LEFT THE BUILDING. Elvis Presley as Frankenstein’s Monster? Don’t blame me, I’m just the messenger.

I strongly dislike having to watch “party scenes” in films. Also, my brother once told me he hates seeing other people have fun. And to a degree, I think we all do. When you’re banging on a downstairs neighbors’ door, yelling for him (her) and his (her) stoner (skanky) friends to keep their party to a low roar, it’s not that it’s keeping you up. You can’t sleep because really, you long to be downstairs shotgunning a beer too, but you weren’t invited. And there are very few party scenes in movies that have made me feel like I was invited.

FANGORIA’S FrightFest (see previous item here and go to www.fangoriafrightfest.com for more details) is coming closer to its debut this summer, and one of the films yearning for your votes to win a theatrical release in the on-line sweepstakes is the Australian DUEL-inspired thriller ROAD KILL; see the new, exclusive trailer in our homepage rotator.

We’ve been hearing about the independent production SPIKE, a more horror-oriented variation on BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, for a few years now. And after appearing at assorted festivals (winning prizes at Shriekfest and the Edinburgh International Film Festival), the movie is finally set to receive its DVDebut this summer.

Author of the MONSTER ISLAND trilogy (MONSTER ISLAND, MONSTER NATION, MONSTER PLANET) and a co-author of the New York Times Best Selling graphic novel MARVEL ZOMBIES RETURN, David Wellington (pictured) is also known for his vampire series, which so far has consisted of 13 BULLETS, 99 COFFINS, VAMPIRE ZERO and 23 HOURS. It was just announced that 32 TEETH, the final volume in the franchise, will be published by Three Rivers Press.

FANGORIA recently reported the tragic loss of one of our own, former editor David Everitt, who succumbed to Lou Gehrig’s Disease on May 7 (see initial announcement here). Since then, we’ve run Everitt co-editor Bob Martin’s words on the man (see them here), as well as those of Everitt protégé Tony Timpone (here). Today we present more tributes from some of the people who fondly recall this Fango trailblazer, who toiled on the magazine during the seminal years of 1981-5. Watch for more Everitt remembrances all week long.

The fourth film in the zombie series comes out September 10. Written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (who helmed the first movie), AFTERLIFE once again stars Milla Jovovich, joined by RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION’s Ali Larter and PRISON BREAK’s Wentworth Miller.

While in NYC, BEST WORST MOVIE director/TROLL 2 child actor Michael Paul Stephenson and leading man Dr. George Hardy spoke with Fango’s Tony Timpone about both films (see part one of our lengthy chat here). In part two, which you can see after the jump, everybody’s favorite dentist-turned-actor George Hardy talks about how he became involved with TROLL 2 and the difficulties he and Stephenson encountered making BEST WORST MOVIE.