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Interview with Wes Caefer, VFX supe on The Expendables

In The Expendables, director Sylvester Stallone harks back to the gritty and explosion-filled action films of days gone by to follow a team of mercenaries helping to overthrow a South American dictator. fxguide talks to visual effects supervisor Wes Caefer about the practical and digital effects work in the film.

Cinefex #123 covers Inception, Prince of Persia, The A-Team and The Last Airbender. I really love this cover.

The visual effects of A Nightmare on Elm Street

Director Samuel Bayer's 2010 re-imagining of A Nightmare on Elm Street, releasing on DVD and Blu-ray in October, sees serial-killer Freddy Krueger once again haunting and killing people in their dreams. Freddy's famous gruesome face was the combined effort of practical prosthetics and digital augmentation from Method Studios. We talk to Method visual effects supervisor Sean Faden about the work.