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Massachusetts filmmaker Geno McGahee returns to the Scary Tales franchise he created in 2014 with the third film in the series, Scary Tales: Dead Zone, after an 8-year hiatus. Which means that yes, we’re in anthology territory once again – a once-dead format which seems to be gaining momentum as the end of 2023 approaches.

Scary Tales: Dead Zone opens with a couple, Allison and Jay, who are out on a drive when their car runs out of gas. Seemingly lost, they walk through the woods and discover a house in the middle of nowhere. Inside, a friendly man, Wes, with an interesting past as a cop has some tales to tell…

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Filmmaker Geno McGahee has just wrapped his latest production “Scary Tales: Dead Zone,” the third in a popular series of anthology films. A Gregory Hatanaka Presents Film distributed by Cinema Epoch, Scary Tales: Dead Zone features plenty of twists and turns and scares along the way.

In 2008, Scary Tales was produced, recently released on Tubi after years of being lost media, followed by the hit Scary Tales: Last Stop in 2014. Now, a new series of stories is set to be released for Halloween, bringing aliens, a demonic serial killer and much more to the screen.

Scary Tales: Dead Zone features an incredibly talented cast, including Eric Michaelian, Lorrie Bacon, Phil Godeck, Adriana Medina, Chris Spinelli, Jesse Waegelein-Hall, Brent Northup, Danell Reese, Oselito Joseph, Patrick French, Nick Sheldon, Rita Marie, Shauna Wilson, Bill Mullen, Keyarra Edwards, Gabbi Mendelsohn, Rick Caride, Enoc Rodriguez, Cayla Pike, Mark Carter, Lisa J. Coleman and more.

Aspiring writers, take note. During a trip to the local Barnes & Noble, Mark Carter picked up a book from the bargain bin. It was a satirical novel from 1996 written by David Prill and titled, "Serial Killer Days". Carter opened the book and immediately became glued to each page. The book had a rather odd premise about a town that celebrates the annual arrival of a serial killer, which includes a huge parade. He had to have the rights so he tracked Pill down in Minnesota. To...

The notion of a novel about a town celebrating the annual arrival of a serial killer with a parade and pageant is pretty hard to imagine-- but what if it happened in a movie, and a movie produced by a major Hollywood studio no less? The industry majors have been known to dabble in black comedy now and again, but Paramount's pick-up of the project Serial Killer Days seems like a major step even for the studio behind Thank You For Smoking. According to THR, the studio has brought Mark Carter in through a deal with producer Dan Dubiecki to write and possibly direct an adaptation of Serial Killer Days, the 1996 satirical novel by David Prill. Carter had this to say for his plans with the adaptation: .I hope to deliver the expected genre conventions but do it in an idiosyncratic, richly layered and unexpected world. There will also be...

Paramount is backing a script by Mark Carter based on David Prill’s novel, Serial Killer Days. THR report that the story takes place in a town that celebrates the annual arrival of a serial killer with a parade and a pageant. Carter has been hoping to get the book to the big screen for some time, and for a brief period it was thought that Jason Reitman was going to direct it back in 2008 but it dropped off the radar and didn’t resurface until now. Assuming Carter’s new draft impresses, the likelihood is that he will also direct, making it his first feature film. Producer Dan Dubiecki (Thank You for Smoking) is also on board. Hit the jump for more.

Mark Carter isn’t particularly well known to your average film buff, let alone layman, but he directed an award-winning comedy short back in 2001 called The Ballad of Little Roger Mead.

Mark Carter and Dan Dubiecki's adaptation of David Prill's satirical 1996 novel "Serial Killer Days" has been picked up by Paramount Pictures, reports Heat Vision . The book is set in a town that celebrates the annual arrival of a serial killer with a parade and a pageant. "I hope to deliver the expected genre conventions but do it in an idiosyncratic, richly layered and unexpected world," says Carter, "There will also be lots of blood."...

Never mind the eight crazy nights of Hanukkah, the twelve days of Christmas, and don't even get us started on Tom Cruise's glory days of thunder. Paramount is hoping that all will pale in comparison to the upcoming madness of the Serial Killer Days.

According to The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision Blog filmmaker Mark Carter is looking to adapt the satirical 1996 David Prill novel, Serial Killer Days into a film for the studio that's brought us lots and lots of horror over the years.

The story is set in a town that celebrates the annual arrival of a serial killer with a parade and a pageant. “I hope to deliver the expected genre conventions but do it in an idiosyncratic, richly layered and unexpected world,” says Carter. “There will also be lots of blood.”

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It pains me to hear that it took nearly 7 years for Mark Carter to get this project off the ground, but it sounds like it may have been worth the wait. I hope you're ready for a horror celebration, 'cause I know I am! Carter, who had made an award-winning short called "The Ballad of Little Roger Mead," will be adapting David Prill's 1996 satirical novel SErIAL Killer Days, set in a town that celebrates the annual arrival of a serial killer with a parade and a pageant. The macabre sense of humor was very Charles Addams-ish, Carter recalls. Execs at Paramount have likened the tone to Scream and Disturbia. I hope to deliver the expected genre conventions but do it in an idiosyncratic, richly layered and unexpected world, says Carter. There will also be lots of blood. Color me every shade of excited.

There’s nothing quite like a quiet summer day, rocking back and forth on the front porch, watching the parade slowly pass by, waiting to see which one of your neighbors will end up brutally murdered. Mark Carter has been shopping around Serial Killer Days for a while now. In fact, it looked as though Jason Reitman was going to direct it back in 2008 after Juno came out, but he found his way to another project and another Best Picture nomination. However, a producer of both Thank You For Smoking and Up In The Air, Dan Dubiecki, is on board alongside Paramount to finally make the horror satire. The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name which focuses on a town that has a serial killer at large that strikes on the same day every year. Of course, the town responds by throwing the murderer lavish parades, nominating...

It's taken him seven years, but short film director Mark Carter finally has a deal to adapt Serial Killer Days, a little-known 1996 satirical novel by David Prill. Maybe the book won't stay obscure for much longer.The story involves a town in Minnesota where an annual visit from a serial killer has become a tourist attraction, with a fair and a parade. A twenty-year tradition, the festival always results in a single murder, but the Standard Springs residents are fine with it because of the benefit to the economy. In the year the story is set, the pageant's "scream queen" is Debbie Sue, but she's concerned that she just doesn't feel the fear anymore...Carter's long-gestating script finally made the Black List of buzzy unproduced screenplays back in 2008, but he's just landed the project in cahoots with Dan Dubiecki, who produced the similarly irreverent Thank You For Smoking, as well...

Mark Carter and Dan Dubiecki's adaptation of David Prill's satirical 1996 novel "Serial Killer Days" has been picked up by Paramount Pictures, reports Heat Vision . The book is set in a town that celebrates the annual arrival of a serial killer with a parade and a pageant. "I hope to deliver the expected genre conventions but do it in an idiosyncratic, richly layered and unexpected world," says Carter, "There will also be lots of blood."...