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The Dowdle Brothers 'Afraid' of Horrible Sci-fi Apocalypse
Wednesday, January 20, 2010


By: MrDisgusting
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Update: Correction, Drew Dowdle will be producing. Bloody Disgusting learned exclusively that John Dowdle is attached to direct Afraid, an adaptation of Jack Kilborn's novel being penned by Larry Malkin & Chad Thumann. his brother Drew will be producing. Here's the inside skinny: "After a helicopter crash unleashes a rogue Red-Ops unit on Safe Haven, Wisconsin, its residents must band together to defend themselves against these brutal “trans-human” killers." This is slated to be a franchise in the vein of Terminator and Aliens. Vincent Newman and Josh Kesselman are producing. The Dowdle brothers are in post-production on Devil, the M. Night Shyamalan thriller, for Universal. They broke on to the scene with The Poughkeepsie Tapes, which is stuck in limbo at MGM.



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bigfootsalienbaby
12:40am, January 21, 2010

This sounds interesting. Now, WHERE THE FUCK IS THE POUGHKEEPSIE TAPES RELEASE?? HMMM? BASTARDS...


Irish Mic
1:30am, January 21, 2010

I actually talked to Stacy Chbosky about just that Bigfoot. When the hell will the Poughkeepsie Tapes see the light of day? I talked to her about how I had seen it online and watched it there, and how much I wanted to see it get a theatrical run. She said to me that she has no idea if and when it will ever come out. She also said that the version that I had seen was a bit different from the final cut that they had put together. I hope you read this Mr. Disgusting, that we should all get together and start a rally to get that film released. We should start making some serious noise about it, cause from the version I saw it was one of the scariest things I have ever seen. Everything that has come out based in "reality" horror doesnt hold a candle to this film. If this got a theatrical run I know it would be huge, and I mean huge. So I say we start Mr. Disgusting lets make this happen.


horrorchick81
8:38am, January 21, 2010

i agree w ya big


gorebath
10:16am, January 21, 2010

This book was awesome. After I finished it, I actually thought about how badass a movie would be....now I'll find out. Don't fuck this up. Read the book, it's worth the time.


deadlover
10:47am, January 21, 2010

I'm down.


fceurich
10:51am, January 21, 2010

after the long delayed paranormal activity' success. the poughkeepsie tapes chances of coming out finally should be greater but now with this mgm auction who knows damn it i want poughkeepsie on dvd


ultrazilla2000
11:01am, January 21, 2010

Yes, of course the terrorized town would be named "Safe Haven". Come on...enough with the movie cliches!


No Heart
9:59pm, January 21, 2010

I've read the book and it's shit. Great premise, but the writer has soooo many 'asides' that it really saps the tension of the story. Ironic because I bought it because of its blurbs about how fast-paced it was... real cliche shit.


MovieAddict
11:36am, February 21, 2010

First, let me say how great the book was. It genuinely scared me. Am I excited for this movie? Most definitely. Will the movie be bad? Most likely. It seems near impossible to take the book and put it on film. It's going to be a train wreck.


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