Bob Clark Is Dead

Bob Clark and his 22-year old son Ariel have been killed in a car crash in LA. The driver of the car that hit them was under the influence. And he's not dead.

Clark's best film is a toss up between A Christmas Story and Deathdream, though bits of Porky's (the must profitable Canadian film ever made), Murder By Decree and Black Christmas were noteworthy, and Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things was maybe my personal favourite. The Baby Geniuses films were really quite bad, however, but Clark was now working to put them far behind him with a new slate of projects.

One of these was a remake of Dead Things. This time he might really have nailed it.

Goodbye, Bob Clark. I know that I'll remember you every Christmas.

Zero Dark Thirty

Stephen Susco has issued a very short update on Zero Dark Thirty on his blog.

He says "There's finally some traction with this long-gestating project - I'll update as things solidify."

The project sounds slightly like Deathdream, slightly like Homecoming, in that the lead character is a soldier killed in Iraq who returns home two weeks after his funeral. Or at least his body does.

John Brently Reynolds was previously attached to star, John Stalberg Jr previously attached to direct - but either of these facts may well have changed now. The plan was for this to be a low-budget, independently produced film and that, at least, still seems to be the status.