More Good News for Horror Fans

Good news for those of us who feel that modern television is neglecting us horror fans, first we heard about Frank Darabont adapting The Walking Dead and now news of a new Clive Barker produced show developed by Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton whose latest film the Collector is receiving some rather positive reviews across the pond.

""Saw" scribes Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton are taking up residence at "Clive Barker's Hotel."

Fresh off Dunstan's feature directorial debut "The Collector," the pair have set up the "Hotel" pilot script at Warner Bros. Television, with a number of networks eyeing it as a potential series.

Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the project is expected to follow a series of ghoulish incidents at a haunted hotel. Barker, the creator of the landmark horror franchise "Hellraiser" and other well-known genre properties, is attached to produce, McG's Wonderland Sound and Vision also in talks to produce. Barker associate Joe Daley will co-produce.

The project marks another collaboration for the duo with the APA- and Evolution-repped Barker. They previously worked on a property from the horror meistro when they did a draft of Dimension's "Hellraiser" reboot, which is in development.

Dunstan and Melton, repped by APA and Underground Management, catapulted to fame when they won a season of "Project Greenlight" with their horror script "Feast." That project eventually became a Dimenson movie, and the duo have since gone up to become the writers on Lionsgate's "Saw" pics.

The pair wrote the previous two movies in the franchise and also penned the screenplay to this fall's "Saw VI." They are attached to write as many as two of the movies beyond that.

Dunstan also directed "The Collector" off a script he and Melton wrote. The pic, distributed theatrically through Freestyle, has earned about $7 million this summer in two weeks of release.

Wonderland produced the CW hit "Supernatural," a genre series on which it also collaborates with WBTV, and is also behind features such as Disney's reboot of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."

Have to say that I'm quite excited about this, I think that Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton are very talented and have written some damn fun films. The Feast trilogy is pure unadulterated trashy fun. Hopefully within the confines of TV they will keep a lid on the gore and instead concentrate on creating an atmospheric horror. The involvement of Clive Barker is at once exciting and at the same time worrying. Barker has a reputation for producing some dreadful stuff and what he did to the Plague is something which I will never forgive him for. It had all the makings of a modern horror classic and Barker and his fellow producers reduced it into yet another by the numbers PG13 horror flick.