New Slasher Film Not a "Halloween" Remake

Shalloween brings a unique twist to the slasher genre with Luke Latham, a lonely serial killer who stalks and tortures the people who teased him as a child in a rampage of bloody revenge.
 
April 7, 2008 - PRLog -- In a new screenplay written by Phyllis Jager, psychopath Luke Latham is “The Gangly Tree-Man Killer,” a young man filled with sadness and fury who covets a poignant and twisted sense of vigilante justice. His brutal murders revolve around a central “nature” theme, as Latham tortures and kills his victims with tree bark, branches and rope, and his primary weapon of choice, a thick, intricately carved staff made from an old tree trunk. Entitled Shalloween, the screenplay draws heavily from classics of the slasher sub-genre and brings a unique element to its main character.
   The villain in Shalloween is a more sympathetic take on the classic stereotype of the horror movie psychopath. His twisted story begins when the boy is only fourteen years old. The emotional depth of his character brings a tragic, human element to the terror. The film begins with a heartbreaking scene of Latham's failure to maintain his sanity during his tender adolescence. Sadism and revenge become a form of self-pleasuring for the boy. The result throughout the film is a dark and twisted scenery of fear and human suffering. Each butchery bloodbath is the soul soothing nourishment that stimulates Luke Latham's famine. When stalking his own sister was insufficient satisfaction for the need to fight back against the teasing and taunting that he would endure, this quiet shy nature lover fashioned a thin rope made from soft tree bark. Soon, his sister's adorable pet hamster hangs from a noose in the closet.
   After spending ten excruciating years in a psychiatric hospital, a glitch in the system raises no red flags, and Luke Latham has been set loose to roam and slaughter. On the night of Halloween, Luke is concerned only with his own sickening pleasure as he takes revenge for the taunting and teasing of his childhood that had ultimately left him alone for a decade of his life. Latham leaves a variety of creative calling cards on the disfigured, mangled bodies of the victims from his past. Drenched in more blood with each kill, he relishes in his fury and violence. Latham is more than just an insane man, or a macabre, sadistic torture artist. He is a hallow-eyed, lonely, softhearted kid with a Kubrickesque sadism who gave up on life, instead settling for revenge. He is a vicious monster from the forest. He is Luke Latham, the Gangly Tree Man Killer.
   Shalloween's theatrical release is scheduled for October 2009. Produced by Script to Screen Productions, inc.'s Phyllis Jager (The Twelve Dates of Christmas, currently In Development; The Farce of the Penguins) and Permut Presentations inc.'s Steve Longi (The Farce of the Penguins; the Dysfunktional Family; Double Take; Carlie Bartlett), Shalloween should be a flick that will have horror enthusiasts screaming in bloody satisfaction for years to come.
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