The Best in the Week's Horror News

Evil Dead:The Musical to be brought to the big screen by producer Don Carmody (Lucky Number Slevin, Chicago). Carmody is currently in negotiations with Sam Raimi to secure the rights. Word is, the film version would also be in 3-D. Awesome.

Actor Aaron Yoo, part of the soon-to-be mocked remake of Friday the 13^th, let a few details slip in a recent interview. Thus far, we know Jason will be faster, have a big machete, and that the film is being internally referred to as “F13.” No word if that will be used in the marketing, but I suppose any way the Dunces can distance themselves from the original is good for fans.

Frank Borin is the next music video director to be used up and tossed on the pile by Platinum Dunces. He has been picked to helm The Butcherhouse Chronicles, a film written by Michael Hidalgo. Originally a stage play about four high school kids who investigate a local haunted house, this marks the first time the Dunces is ripping off a play.

Peter Block, formerly co-producer and president of acquisitions at Lionsgate, is hanging his own shingle for a production company called A Bigger Boat. The company will specialize in genre films in the $10-25 million range. First up is a “thriller” from John Carpenter, possibly LA Gothic, and Dark Corners, a film written by E.L. Katz, who wrote Home Sick and Autopsy. Lionsgate has been a genre-friendly company, largely due to Block’s influence on the films acquired by Lionsgate. We wish him the best of luck and look forward to more Jaws puns.

Pak Chan-Wook, best known for his films Oldboy and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance has pulled off a neat trick by getting U.S. distribution for his next film, Thirst, prior to its release in its native South Korea. The film is a vampiric tale of a priest who becomes nosferatu-san after an experimental medical procedure.