Some recent additions to our action figure wall are really impressing me. Well, three out of the four figures in this new set of CINEMA OF FEAR action figures are anyway. The first set were marvellous things, but they were perhaps a little too stylised for some tastes. The next batch are in the store now, and I’m pleased to find that Mezco have gone for the ‘big three’ in Horror antiheroes, and have produced a set of figures that is rather excellent. The annoying clamshell packages aside (they look great but you do need some form of laser sword to open them), these are some of the best horror themed action figures I’ve seen since the early days of the McFarlane Movie Maniacs range.
The second
Cinema of Fear ‘House of Horrors’ set of licensed action figures consists of
Freddy Krueger (as he appeared in the original Nightmare On Elm Street movie),
Jason Voorhees (as he appeared in Friday the 13th past 6: Jason Lives), and
Leatherface (from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2). Also in the set is a figure of Nancy from the first Elm street movie, from the infamous ‘Bath’ scene in which the naked, sleeping Nancy ends up with an underwater attack from
Freddy Krueger.That one is the figure I’m not too thrilled with. It looks nice, but there seems to be little point to it. The Freddy figure is great aside from the questionable sculpt of one of his interchangeable hands (the one with sculpted green ‘blood’ coming out of it), and is going to be a popular figure for some time to come. The
Jason Voorhees figure captured the character at his most iconic, and is the guise that most people will be familiar with, even if the film it is taken from was pure cheese. The
Leatherface action figure is better than the classic McFarlane figure was, in all honesty. It looks superb. All are articulated and come with accessories and movie themed packaging. I’d just like to know what sort of use an action figure of a bath tub would be… Ah well, as
horror action figures go, they look fantastic.
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