Movies
Bloody Disgusting Selects: ‘THE WOMAN’ IS COMING!
Although I personally have absolutely nothing to do with the Bloody Disgusting Selects acquisitions, I think it’s really cool that we got involved with the distribution side of things. We’ve been dedicated to bringing awesome horror flicks to your attention for the better part of the last decade, and what better way to get the word out about films that are worth your time than to actually release them?
With Rammbock out on DVD/VOD, YellowBrickRoad just leaving theatres and Phase 7 about to take its big screen leap, it feels like the right time to announce our latest acquisition: the Sundance shocker, The Woman! Genre fav Lucky McKee’s (May, The Woods) latest, which was co-written by celebrated horror writer Jack Ketchum, garnered a lot of attention at its Sundance premiere when an audience member got worked up over its graphic content and said it should be “confiscated and burned.” B-D’s own Ryan Daley caught up with the film at the fest (review) and enjoyed it a great deal, praising McKee for coming up with “some very scary shit” – seriously, someone get that on a poster and DVD cover, pronto.
I haven’t had the opportunity to see The Woman yet, but McKee is one of my favorite horror directors working today and definitely one of the most feminist (something Mr. Audience Member seemed to not realize pre-rant). Keep checking B-D over the coming weeks for more details on our upcoming releases and when YOU’LL be able to check them out at a theatre near you!
Movies
‘Desperation’ – Sam Raimi and ‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ Directors Teaming for Stephen King Movie
Stephen King’s 1996 novel Desperation is headed back to the screen, with Jeff Sneider breaking the news on The InSneider that Sam Raimi, Stephen King, and Final Destination Bloodlines directors Adam B. Stein and Zach Lipovsky are coming together for the film.
Sam Raimi will produce the upcoming Desperation movie, while Stein and Lipovsky are on board to direct. Searchlight Pictures is the studio attached to the feature film project.
Published in 1996, Stephen King’s novel Desperation was previously turned into a made-for-TV movie starring Ron Perlman, Tom Skerritt and Steven Weber back in 2006.
Wikipedia reminds, “Desperation is a story about several people who, while traveling along the desolated Highway 50 in Nevada, get abducted by Collie Entragian, the deputy of the fictional mining town of Desperation. Entragian uses various pretexts for the abductions, from an arrest for drug possession to ‘rescuing’ a family from a nonexistent gunman. It becomes clear to the captives that Entragian has been possessed by an evil being named Tak, who has control over the surrounding desert wildlife and must change hosts to keep itself alive.
“They begin to fight for their freedom, sanity and lives before realizing that if they are ever to escape Desperation, they must trap Tak in the place from which he came.”
Desperation was published at the same time as Stephen King’s own “mirror novel” titled The Regulators, which shares characters but takes place in an alternate universe.
The union of Sam Raimi and Stephen King is an exciting one for fans of both Raimi and King, and there’s a nice bit of full circle history there too. As you may recall, it was Stephen King’s review of The Evil Dead that Raimi credits for saving and legitimizing his indie debut feature.
And the rest is history! Stay tuned for more on this developing story.
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