“The vampire thing always works for some reason. Always works,” Scorsese tells the site. “I happen to like vampires more than zombies. Well, a vampire, quite honestly, you could have a conversation with. He has a sexuality. Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them. It’s a whole other thing that apparently means a great deal to our culture and our society. There are many, many books written about it and many movies. I saw one in London when I was doing Hugo. I saw one late at night one weekend. It was called Colin, by a young filmmaker [Marc Price]. He shot it, I think, digitally by himself, edited it himself. It was savage. It had an energy that took the zombie idea to another level. Really interesting filmmaking. Disturbing.”

You really can’t argue with that kind of logic. I’d love to see Scorsese take a shot at the vampire or zombie genre, how cool would that be?

Evil Dead II Rotoscoped

There is no doubt that we have all seen Evil Dead II many times but I can assure you that you’ve never seen it like this before. Pretend for Real Studios used the same technique used in films like Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly by rotoscope animating the Evil Dead II trailer and it’s quite insane looking. The process to make a movie like this takes a ridiculous amount of work because you have to trace the animated image onto each frame which explains why they only did the trailer. I’m not sure If I would want to see the entire film like this because the 46 second trailer was crazy enough. Check it out.

Evil Dead Remake Begins Filming

I really wish I could be excited for this but considering Sam Raimi isn’t in the director’s chair and Diablo Cody revised the script it makes this a tough one to swallow. The film’s targeted release date is April 12, 2013 so earlier in the week the director Fede Alvarez officially began shooting the remake. Bruce Campbell is rumored to make a cameo in the film which may be the only thing to look forward to.

Stephen King’s Joyland

This isn’t quite movie news but anytime the master of horror himself announces a new book it is definitely something to get excited about. With King’s sequel to his classic tale of terror in The Shining called Dr. Sleep finished he is currently hard at work on his new slasher novel simply titled, Joyland. All that is known about the book thus far is that it is about an amusement park serial killer. And I’m sold. I don’t need to know anything else, take my money Mr. King.

Currently, King has a lot of his material in various stages of production which include the all ambitious Ron Howard’s The Dark Tower, Ben Affleck’s possible trilogy adaptation of The Stand, Showtime’s Under the Dome miniseries, Jonathan Demme recently picking up the rights to King’s latest novel 11/22/63, and last but not least, the recent resurrection of Carrie.

Ti West to Pen Bedbugs Screenplay

One of my favorite rising horror directors is easily Ti West, the man behind the fantastic House of the Devil and Innkeepers. Ben H. Winters’ bestselling novel of terror, Bedbugs, has set Ti West to write the screenplay for the film adaptation.

“ ‘Bedbugs’ is a tale of urban paranoia set in Brooklyn that follows the Wendt family as they move in to a new home and suddenly start to encounter strange occurrences. Susan Wendt begins suffering what she suspects are bedbug bites, but she’s the only one getting bitten and suddenly fears she may be going crazy. That’s until she’s confronted with a more menacing explanation for the strange things happening to her and the family.”

This sounds right up West’s alley and I have no doubt that he will deliver another great horror film.

The End

There you have it, some of the stuff that mattered to me this week. It was a great week for horror related news and I hope you guys enjoyed it as much as I did.

As always, thanks for reading.