Eric Red is one of our favorite writers around here. How could we not love the work of the scribe who gave us such cool films as THE HITCHER, NEAR DARK, BLUE STEEL, BODY PARTS, BAD MOON, and 100 FEET (which featured Arrow in the Head founder John Fallon)? Back in 2015, Red wrote a novel titled WHITE KNUCKLE (you can read Jake Dee's review of the novel at THIS LINK), and now we are excited to hear that he's teaming up with Horror Equity Fund, Inc. to write and direct a film based on the novel.
Described as a "terrifying road thriller in the tradition of THE HITCHER", WHITE KNUCKLE is
a gripping story of female empowerment about a woman who survives an attack by a serial killer, and then takes it upon herself to stop him from hurting anyone else.
For a more detailed synopsis, we can turn to the book's description:
There’s a killer on the road… He’s a big rig truck driver who goes by the CB handle White Knuckle, and he’s Jack the Ripper on eighteen wheels. For thirty years he has murdered hundreds of women in unimaginable ways, imprisoning them in a secret compartment in his truck, abducting them in one state and dumping their dead bodies across the country. Dedicated FBI agent Sharon Ormsby is on a mission to hunt down and stop White Knuckle. She goes undercover as a truck driver with a helpful long hauler named Rudy in a cross-country pursuit that will ultimately bring her face-to-face with White Knuckle in a pedal-to-the-metal, high-octane climax on a highway to Hell.
Horror Equity Fund's CEO Marlon Schulman, CCO Brian Herskowitz, and EVP Tony Timpone will be executive producing WHITE KNUCKLE. An entertainment company focused solely on the horror and thriller genres, Horror Equity Fund aims to "bring content creators, fans, and investors together and give them access to the tools that help them see their passions into profits". The company is currently raising funds through a soon-to-close Regulation CF investment funding campaign.
Timpone promises that WHITE KNUCKLE will "keep people off the highways like JAWS kept 'em out of the water".
If you'd like to read the book while waiting for the movie, you can buy a copy of WHITE KNUCKLE on Amazon.