Cult director inks deal for 10 films, iI TV series
NEW YORK -- Several classic horror tales are getting a merry makeover courtesy of Regent Studios, its sister cable channel Here! Networks and cult film director David DeCoteau.
The helmer has inked a two-year deal with Regent to direct 10 films and two television serial publication through his Rapid Heart Pictures shingle.
The projects, some of which will be released theatrically by Regent in the fall, include Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" and adaptations of works by H.G. Wells and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. New features will besides be made for "The Brotherhood" and "The Invisible Chronicles," deuce ongoing TV/DVD series.
All of the fabled tales in the slating will be refashioned to include brave themes, as was DeCoteau's recently released Poe adaption "House of Usher." The only film confirmed for release this Fall is the "pansexual" film noir "Playing With Fire," starring Susan Anton and Michael Bergin.
DeCoteau has produced and/or directed more than 50 music genre films o'er the past two decades, including "Leeches!" "Creepozoids" and "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama," after his start in the mid-'80s gay porno industry.
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