Serial Killers

Dave O'Shea has a story to tell. For the last five years he's been creating Day Job, a low-budget offering illustrating how those brutal serial killers that have become part of American history seemed, at one time, to be just regular people walking among us. How fucking scary is that?

It was over a year ago when word first broke that Leonardo DiCaprio would be portraying H.H. Holmes, the first real serial killer in America, in an adaptation of Erik Larson's nonfiction book The Devil in the White City, and now finally the project has a screenwriter after being picked up by Warner Bros.

Say what you will about Immortals. Odd casting choices and historical inaccuracies aside, it looks simply amazing. As have both of director Tarsem Singh's previous films (The Cell, The Fall). While we wait to see what develops with his upcoming Mirror, Mirror, news of his next project has broken, and it sounds right up our alley.

Casting news has broken today for The Frozen Ground, the directorial debut of Scott Walker, who also wrote the script, which is based on true events surrounding Alaska’s most notorious serial predator, Robert Hansen. Along with word from THR that genre fave Radha Mitchell will be playing Nicolas Cage's wife in the flick comes confirmation that Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson has also signed on for the film.

Now this is what we call exciting news! Kevin Williamson has landed a put pilot commitment from Fox TV for a new series the revolves around a serial killer. Those of you who haven't watched his show "The Vampire Diaries" recently might be skeptical, but those of us who have know full well the depths to which Williamson's mind can travel.

Most of us are well aware that truth is often stranger - and more horrific - than anything a genre filmmaker can come up with. Case in point: serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who is the subject of this week's Motion Picture Purgatory review - The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer from director David R. Bowen and screenwriter Carl Crew, who pulls double duty portraying the title character in the film.

We'd do anything with Nicolas Cage. Plant daisies, go shirtless and shoeless for some Fight Club type action, embrace him from behind while making pottery and listening to The Righteous Brothers. You name it. Wait ... what we were talking about again? Oh yeah, casting news ... Frozen Ground. Read on ...

Any time we get a chance to post the picture of Nicolas Cage you see before you, you'd better believe we're taking it. The look on his face just brings us total unadulterated joy. We could stare for hours at ... Huh? Oh yeah. Frozen Ground.

And rounding out our extensive news coverage of the Cannes Film Festival, some last minute news has come in regarding the latest serial killer flick, Snowtown. Get your boots on! You may be headed there quicker than you think!

Serial killer story Snowtown, which we provided a trailer and some artwork for earlier this month, has officially joined the Critics Week (la Semaine de la Critique) lineup at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

As if Canada hasn’t given us enough in Pam Anderson, Jim Carrey and Peter North, north country filmmaker Barry J. Gillis has tapped the true story of alleged Canuck murder suspect Mark Twitchell for the subject matter of his new film The Killing Games.

Okay, so this has nothing at all to do with the Roddy Piper cult flick of yesteryear, but this new title left us feeling all sentimental (mainly just mental). Ready for some more hard core Aussie frights? We knew you would be.

With 11 11 11 happily spinning in the hype wheel, it's easy to forget that Darren Bousman has yet another numerically themed horror flick in the works ... a little movie called Ninety whose premise is simple ... 90 kills in a 90-minute movie.

Anyone who has played the Playstation 3 serial killer on the loose game Heavy Rain (review here) knows how dark, scary, and overall insane this remarkable piece of software can be.

No, not Karl Kolchak, everyone's favorite paranormal investigating reporter. We are talking about one of the most evil men to ever walk the face of the Earth here, the serial killer known as The Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez.