Switchblade Comb

Yes. Yes.

I have decided to relegate most non-local news I come across to the weekends here on SBC, but this is too good. After years of having it on the backburner, Guillermo del Toro is finally fast-tracking At the Mountains of Madness.

For those who don’t know what it is, it’s one of the best stories from H.P. Lovecraft. For those of you who don’t know H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King called him, “the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale” and has had tremendous influence on the likes of del Toro and John Carpenter, whose The Thing and In the Mouth of Madness are probably the best representations of Lovecraft’s style.

Oh, and James Cameron is producing. Remember, he has a fantastic track record in that category (Strange Days, Solaris).

Guillermo himself says: “ATMOM is a delicate project to push through a studio: no love interest, no female characters, no happy ending…but i believe its time to resurrect the big tentpole horror movie. The Event Horror movie. Like The Exorcist was or The Shining or Alien or Jaws in their time.”

This, ladies and gentlemen, is exciting.