Joe Lansdale

Bubba Nosferatu, Bruce Campbell (The Horror Movie That Almost Was)

Posted 4 years ago

Phantasm director Don Coscarelli's 2002 film Bubba Ho-Tep (watch it HERE, buy it HERE) is a favorite of mine. It stars Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis as a pair of nursing home residents who believe that they are Elvis Presley and JFK, respectively, and...

Creepshow series will adapt King, Hill, and Lansdale stories

Posted 7 years ago

The classic anthology horror films CREEPSHOW and CREEPSHOW 2 were both based entirely on stories conceived by author Stephen King. King wrote the screenplay for the first movie himself, then CREEPSHOW director George A. Romero wrote adaptations of King stories...

Bill Paxton planned to return to directing horror with The Bottoms

Posted 8 years ago

As people are currently talking circles around the late Bill Paxton's acting credits (as well they should be, the man was a multi-layered genius) there seems to be a bit of neglect going on regarding Bill Paxton the director.  And...

Romero and Russo return to the living dead for anthology novel

Posted 9 years ago

New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry is set to co-edit an anthology novel for publisher Griffin that will be set in the 48 hours surrounding the events of George A. Romero's immortal horror classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD....

Hot new stills for Jim Mickle’s Cold in July, starring Michael C. Hall

Posted 11 years ago

We've been stoked about director Jim Mickle's adaptation of Joe Lansdale's COLD IN JULY ever since we first heard about the project last year and was excited to learn that genre fave IFC had acquired the Michael C. Hall-starring flick...

Jim Mickle’s Cold In July to hit theaters, VOD in May from IFC Films

Posted 11 years ago

We've been stoked about director Jim Mickle's adaptation of Joe Lansdale's COLD IN JULY ever since we first heard about the project last year and was excited to learn that genre fave IFC had acquired the Michael C. Hall-starring flick...

Stake Land TV series might be coming soon from Jim Mickle

Posted 11 years ago

The 2010 vampire indie STAKE LAND might be making an unlikely transition to the small screen. The Wrap reports Jim Mickle and his co-writer Nick Damici are in talks to explore the world of the bloodsucking post-apocalypse via a television...

Bill Paxton to direct adaptation of Joe Lansdale’s The Bottoms

Posted 11 years ago

Paradise City, the newly-minted production label of Paris-based Memento Films International, has tapped Bill Paxton to direct the adaptation of prolific author Joe Lansdale’s THE BOTTOMS, according to Deadline. Lansdale's stories have lent themselves well to film, with the classic...

IFC acquiring Jim Mickle’s Cold In July

Posted 11 years ago

We've been stoked about director Jim Mickle's adaptation of Joe Lansdale's COLD IN JULY ever since we first heard about the project last year and now that the film has had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival it was...

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