Evilseek

The news that Thomas Jane has been hired for the lead role in Evilseek confirms, sadly, that Wayne Kramer is making another stupid movie. After The Cooler gathered him a lot of press and acclaim - in reality it's harmlessly hopeless, silly stuff with a couple of great performances - he has just shovelled out Running Scared. And it's awful. Truly, diabollically awful.


Talking of the diabolical - ahem - it seems that the lead role in the upcoming Evilseek will be that of the Devil himself, walking the Earth through possession of a cop driven to suicide by the antics of a serial killer. A kind of dual role for Mr. Jane then - by my count, two more than he normally gets.

Kramer's looing like some kind of Stygiophile- an impish, gnomic hellsprite of sorts makes a kind of cameo appearance in Running Scared. No, no, not Cameron Bright, this oogy-boogy appears as a shadow dancing around on a bathroom wall. Just one more of the many ludicrous, post-Natural Born Killers conceits that the film wastes the audience's time with.

Running Scared opens across the US today. You have been warned.