Bram Stoker Award Finalist Michael Laimo and Stechman have reached an agreement to adapt two of horror author Laimo’s novels, Deep In The Darkness and his most recent publication, The Demonologist for the silver screen beginning immediately. Stechman will write the film adaptation for both novels, using Laimo’s notes and novels as the source material for the scripts. Once scripting of both films is complete, Laimo and Stechman will shop The Demonologist around to studios for dramatic rights acquisition, whereas Stechman hopes to produce Deep In The Darkness independently. Ambitious, don’t you think?
Deep In The Darkness is a chilling and atmosphere-drenched horror fable concerning a doctor from New York City who moves to a small town. Once there, the doctor and his family find that the town is controlled by many things outside their control, including a legend concerning subterranean creatures which lurk in the woods outside the residents’ homes. The Demonologist concerns an aging rock star who returns home to Los Angeles to find that he has a part to play in ritual sacrifices carried out by a demonic cult whose evil is so powerful that their enemy is not only God, but Satan himself.
As for Stechman’s THREADING OVER DARK, while not complete, has already been selected to run at the International Week of Fantasy in Malaga, Spain in the Spring. The film is currently in the rough cut stage, and so that’s what will be shown. Afterwards, the film will be fully mastered and released to festivals in the summer.