Musician Glenn Danzig recently made his feature directorial debut with the horror anthology VEROTIKA (pictured above), and after a couple screenings have been held viewers are comparing his filmmaking skills to Ed Wood's and saying VEROTIKA is the most crowd-pleasing bad movie since the Tommy Wiseau cult classic THE ROOM. We'll get to see for ourselves just how amazingly bad VEROTIKA is before too long, as there will be Fathom screenings, a VOD roll-out release just in time for Halloween, and a DVD/Blu-ray release by the end of the year.
Now that Danzig is has made one movie, he's eager to move on to the next. We had heard that he's interested in making a "vampire spaghetti western", and he confirmed that during a Q&A following a screening of VEROTIKA in Los Angeles. He told the audience:
My next film, which I'm hopefully starting this summer, is a vampire-spaghetti western. The soundtrack has been done for two years and of course it sounds almost exactly like an Ennio Morricone soundtrack. I think I'm actually going to do a small part in it too. Everybody in the movie is a vampire. So, you won’t have to wait around to see the vampire. They're all f—ing vampires!"
Entertainment Weekly notes that the crowd, which had just experienced VEROTIKA, reacted to the news that Danzig is planning another movie with "loud applause and cheers".
I'm all for seeing a Danzig mixture of horror and western styles. You usually expect to see humans going up against vampires in a vampire movie, so it's interesting to hear that this one is going to be all vamp-on-vamp action.
We'll keep you updated on this project as it moves forward. If production is going to take place this summer, Danzig will have to get cameras rolling very soon.
Putting the trailer for THE NIGHTINGALE here just because it's set in the 1800s