In the latest digital issue of Wired Magazine, District 9 director Neill Blomkamp is credited with making this brief video about a couple guys investigating a gross little branded freak lying dead in a puddle. It's unclear if this is related to his next film or, as /Film suspects, maybe something else altogether, but the Montauk Monster people are probably going to be seeking an attorney after they see this:
A movie involving freaks, directed by the talented David Gordon Green, and based on a horror comic by Steve Niles? Sure, I'll have that:
Overture Films has tapped David Gordon Green to direct the horror thriller "Freaks of the Heartland," written by freshman scribes Peter Sattler and Geoff Davey. The company recently purchased the rights to the Dark Horse graphic novel written by Steve Niles.Green and Dark Horse Entertainment president Mike Richardson are producing. Niles, who also wrote "30 Days of Night," is executive producing.
Illustrated by Greg Ruth, Niles' six-part 2004 series about the horrible secret of a rural Middle American town involves Trevor Owen's attempts to protect his "monster" of a 6-year-old younger brother and Gristlewood Valley's other "freaks" from their parents' worst instincts.
Well, looking at Amazon, supposedly this isn't that great of a comic. At least there will be some mutants, though, right? Just think of all the posts you have to look forward to once someone gets a spy shot of a mutant child on-set, and I'll be flipping out over how disgusting freaks are, and proposing extermination methods for getting rid of our current, actual freaks, and so on. Good times, ahoy-hoy!
This is why I'm never going into a cave. Or shaving my head.
The Darker Depths of THE DESCENT 2 [Fangoria]
I don't know how much I've mentioned it here, but like Karl Pilkington and Larry David, I'm an unabashed lover of freaks. Horrible deformities, disgusting aliens, general mutations, whatever--so long as it's non-normal to the degree of slight repulsion, I want to see it. But, man, this new Hellboy II trailer...
See this awful gentleman above with a building for a head? He's like the median freak, and he already has no business existing. Wait until you see these terrible things. It's like Guillermo del Toro does the Star Wars cantina.
Fellow Freak Fans, you really need to watch this. Non-Freak Fans, there also seemed to be a story going on as a background to the mutant menagerie, so maybe you'll find some meager joy in that. Thanks for the tip, Joe.
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