Eric Red announced at Screamfest that he will be directing the adaptation of Jack Ketchum’s Off Season. Red is probably best known for writing 1987’s Near Dark. His directing credits include Body Parts and Bad Moon.
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Director Greg Lamberson’s (Slime City) books, Johnny Gruesome and Cheap Scares are finally coming to a book store near you. Gruesome follows a vengeance crazed, teenage zombie hell bent on destroying his home town and will be available nationwide this Wednesday, October 1st.
A man who needs no introduction to the horror genre, Guillermo del Toro is teaming up with crime author Chuck Hogan to release a trilogy of vampire novels. Yeah novels not movies. The series is called The Strain, in a statement to the AP the director said:
While any first time filmmaker should read every book on the subject they can get their hands on, Cheap Scares should definitely be the top book on their pile. It truly is the perfect starting point for wannabe filmmakers, not to mention a fascinating and entertaining look into the low-budget horror world.
Transformers star Shia LaBeouf is set to star in Neil Burger’s (The Illusionist) new film Dark Fields based on a book by author Alan Glynn.
The other day I went to my local Barnes and Nobel to do some book shopping, and can I tell you what a disappointment it was. I couldn’t find a copy of Rue Morgue or Fangoria to read for free while I drank my coffee, and the horror section was not much better. It consisted of maybe 4 or 5 authors; Clive Barker, Stephen King, Peter Straub, Jack Ketchum with a few Brian Keene scattered around…
For those of you who like to read and are looking for some new horror literature, you may want to check out Permuted Press, a small, horror and Sci-Fi publisher.
The publishing, movie and music industry all have been desperately trying to figure out how to use the internet to their benefit for years, but sometimes it seems that it has cost them more than it has helped them. Recently Kevin Cogill was arrested for leaking the new Guns N’ Roses album online and now author, Stephanie Meyer of the bestselling Twilight books, is so upset that the latest Twilight book, Midnight Sun was leaked online, she told MTV: “for all intents and purposes, Breaking Dawn is the last book.”
What if the police broke down the door of every “mom ‘n pop” video store in your town and arrested and fined the owner for selling and/or renting out horror DVDs? What if they marched into YOUR home, confiscated your exploitation movie collection and put you in jail? It would be unthinkable, like something out of a… well, movie. But it did happen. The place and time was England in the ’80s during Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s reign of censorship and oppression. It was a time that spawned anger, political and social upheaval, punk music, and the video nasties. The violent and sexual nature in these “nasty” films were said to be harmful to the children and was blamed for the rise in violent crimes perpetrated by young people.
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Like a lot of horror movies, horror novels tend to tread over the same territory. But some writers are able to make those same themes exciting over and over again. However, some do not. Before I read Dawn’s End I had just finished an older book called Stinger by Robert R. McCammon. Stinger is nothing more than your typical alien/horror novel. Good alien lands on Earth, bad alien follows, people die, good alien teams up with humans to defeat bad alien. The thing about McCammon is he manages to make this tired formula exciting again. A helicopter chase in the book reads like you are watching a film, all the characters are developed nicely, and everything ties up like a neat little bow at the end.
Since we normally don’t cover 13-year-old-girl horror trends on Horror Yearbook, I never knew that the Twilight books are kind of the next Harry Potter. Author Stephenie Meyer even has her own J.K.Rowling type story.
They have made two Jack Ketchum books into films, first the excellent The Girl Next Door and then The Lost, but neither of them were 100% horror. Horror fans have been waiting for them to get around to making Offspring and that time is finally here.
The studio who brought you The Girl Next Door is currently working on bringing Offspring to the big screen. The screenplay was written by Jack Ketchum himself, and it will be directed by Andrew van den Houten (Headspace).
Simply titled John Landis, journalist Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan collects together some fascinating interviews done with the famous director along with many from close friends, colleagues, and cohorts of the past. People like Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jim Abrahams, David Cronenberg, and Joe Dante bring back the good old days of film with their thoughts on John Landis, and opening the door to how each film he made had more going on than just movie magic.
I missed this when I published the cover for the Johnny Gruesome paperback. I guess I was just in such awe from how cool the cover art was, I looked right over the news about Gregory Lamberson’s other book; Cheap Scares! Low Budget Horror Filmmakers Share Their Secrets that is being released on June 29th by McFarland & Company.
Author Greg Lamberson just sent us the cover art for the Johnny Gruesome paperback from Medallion books and it looks great! Check it out after the jump.
