It’s good to have you back, Don Coscarelli. Phantasm is easily my favorite horror series (Name a more consistent one! It’s impossible.) and Bubba Ho-Tep was a pitch-perfect Joe Lansdale adaptation, so you know how much I loved that one.
Lucky attendees at Fantastic Fest got a chance to see this first footage from John Dies at the End, based on the book of the same name from Cracked.com editor Jason Pargin (under the pseudonym of David Wong, and written in the first person). Darkly humorous, utterly violent, and one hell of a dreamy drug trip- it’s pretty much perfect for Coscarelli. Absolutely can’t wait to see the final product.
I’ve been a fan of the book since Permuted Press put it out in 2007 but thousands of people originally read a serialized on Wong’s website before it got taken down when he got it published.
There’s a sequel to the book on the way called THIS BOOK IS FULL OF SPIDERS: Seriously Dude, Don’t Touch It, so you might want to jump on the first one now.
