Hellraiser Remake update

Directors Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo spoke with Twitch recently about directing the remake to Clive Barkers classic Hellraiser. Having getting the thumbs up from Clive Barker they are going full speed ahead. Bustillo did most of the talking and said:

"We are actually writing the script right now and we don’t want to remake exactly the Cliver Barker movie. It will not be a remake. It will still be called “Hellraiser” and it will have a new Pinhead. Our story is very very different I promise! It will be cool!"

They are going to be going back to the source material and actually remaking the novel.

Hellraiser was the first movie to unsettle me for some time after I watched it(second only to Ishtar). Needless to say, I'm skeptically stoked about this one. We'll see how it pans out.

Zombie news

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hollywood Gang have just optioned the rights to make Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan's graphic novel The Last Christmas. This is the same shingle that also adapted Frank Miller's 300 . Currently they do not have anyone ready to adapt the novel into a screenplay.

The story follows Santa Claus as he withdraws from normal life and turns his back on Christmas. When he emerges from seclusion, he has to find a way to save the world, and Christmas, from being overrun by demons, zombies and other bad guys.



Evil Dead Ultimate Box set!!!!

just in time for Christmas on December 18th.


Disc 1: THE EVIL DEAD - Widescreen Version

* Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
* Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround - English
* Dolby Digital Surround EX - English
* DTS 6.1 ES Surround - English
* Audio Commentary - Sam Raimi - Director; Robert Tapert - Producer
* ONE BY ONE WE WILL TAKE YOU: The Untold Saga of The EVIL DEAD

Disc 2: THE EVIL DEAD - Full Frame Version

* Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Surround - English
* Audio Commentary - Bruce Campbell - Star
* THE EVIL DEAD: TREASURES FROM THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR

Disc 3: LADIES OF THE EVIL DEAD

* 1. LIFE AFTER DEATH: THE LADIES OF EVIL DEAD
* 2. The Ladies of THE EVIL DEAD Meet Bruce Campbell
* 3. Discovering The Evil Dead
* 4. At The Drive In
* 5. Make-Up Test
* 6. Unconventional
* Trailer
* TV Spots
* Poster & Memorabilia Gallery
* Still Gallery



Low Budget
Night of the living Jew!
...not just another Hasidic zombie movie


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The Desert by Bryon Morrigan

The ARC of this book came to me a few weeks back but because of other obligations I was unable to start on this (and the rest o my TBR stack) right away. I want to apologize for that. Had I known what I was missing, I'd have started the night I received it.

In all honesty, though, I didn't expect a lot from this book. I saw the cover (with the soldier on the front), read the back cover and was convinced it was going to be yet another practice in mediocrity. I'm always one to admit when I'm wrong.

The book starts slowly with and officer and a soldier doing recon for WMD's in Iraq. They happen to find a cave with the grave of a soldier from a lost platoon. They also find his journal. That's where the book begins.

Like I said, it starts slowly. But, in all fairness, so do freight trains. These large beasts take a while to get up to speed but once they get going, it's hard as hell to stop them. The same could be said for this novel.

I read the first chapter in passing and sat the book down. A few days later I picked it up again and read 150 pages in a matter of an hour and some change. I didn't want to put it down and, had it not been so late to begin with, I'd have finished it that night.

Morrigan takes us into the Iraqi desert; an abandoned village and the bowels of Hell as two men struggle to free themselves, retain their sanity and make it out in one piece.

The Desert is a sly combination of action and horror with enough chills to keep a reader on their toes and enough heart pounding action to keep a reader's blood racing.

The characters are, not only enjoyable, but also believable and empathetic. The feel of the whole book is carried throughout from page one until the end. The dialog was well written. In short, this is a great book by a talented author whom I hope to see more of in the near future.

Yes, there are spots where they pace slowed a bit more than I liked but it did little to detract from the story as a whole. This book was a fine example of writing that even some more established authors should look to as an example of how to keep a reader's attention.

Listen to he Silence By David W. Elliott

This book is 40 years old. Its pages are yellowed with the distinct smell of must, old glue and a hint of mold. It was a rescue from the Goodwill bargain bin where it had set for who knows how long and, probably, would have set until Ragnarok had my wife not picked it up. This is also the saddest book I have ever read.

It centers around Timmy, a 14 year old boy. Timmy's "different". So much so that he has been to countless foster homes; adopted and un-adopted and finally dumped at a state mental institution. The book follows the boy's life while at the facility.

It is evident from the first page that he doesn't qualify as a "normal" boy. It's written in first person and we follow his thoughts from beautifully poetic one minute to absurd and chaotic the next. Ten pages in and I had more empathy for this character than I have for most 150 pages into a novel.

Listen to the Silence is an unrelenting, unforgiving book that takes us into the dark, depraved depths of the mental hospitals of the time and the despair that some of the inmates felt.

Silence leaves us with very little since of hope even as the end draws near. I walked away from these pages feeling haunted, disturbed and saddened for the boy, for the other inmates and for humanity in general.

A short book, a quick read but one that is tough to walk away from. It will haunt the reader long after it's been shelved.