Robert Englund to hunt crocs for Syfy in 'Lake Placid' sequel

The Syfy network announced on Nov. 3 that horror icon Robert Englund, aka Freddy Krueger, will appear in the upcoming Syfy Saturday Original Movie Lake Placid: The Final Chapter.

 Englund follows previous Placid performers Betty White, Cloris Leachman and Colin Ferguson as Jim Bickerman, a croc poacher. Lake Placid: The Final Chapter will also co-star Elisabeth Rohm (Law and Order) and Yancy Butler (Kick-Ass). The creature feature, directed by Don Michael Paul, is currently filming in Bulgaria and will premiere on Syfy in 2012.

This news is so good we thought it deserved a nursery rhyme:

One, two, Englund's coming to the tube. 

Three, four, Syfy is giving us more. 

Five, six, this feeds our monster fix. 

Seven, eight, a Placid sequel is great. 

Nine, ten, those crocs are at it again.

'Jonah Hex' trailer hits - finally

The fact that we are just now getting a trailer (below) for Jonah Hex, a movie that opens on June 18, is an indicator of how troubled this production has been. That said, I'm really pulling for this flick since Jonah is an old-school B.A. of the Baracus school, and in the comics, he was a supernatural-prone gunslinger (and owned an entire episode of Batman: The Animated Series).

The trailer doesn't look bad, but it feels disjointed. In the beginning, there is the medium aspect of Hex (Josh Brolin), which seems cool, and then it suddenly abandons that and becomes a post-Civil War action spectacle. I'm a fan of Brolin, who actually strikes me as a cool cowboy type, and John Malkovich as the baddie and Megan Fox seem fine here, but something does seem amiss. Hopefully this will be a cool Wild West film and not another Wild, Wild West.

The trailer is being shown before A Nightmare on Elm Street. Man, how embarrassed are Jonah and Freddy Krueger going to be when they show up sporting the same broodin scarred face-and-hat outfit?