SLASH Talks To BLOODY DISGUSTING About His Horror Film Production Company (Audio)

VELVET REVOLVER and ex-GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Slash spoke to Bloody Disgusting about his new horror film production company Slasher Films. You can now listen the chat using the audio player below.

Slash unveiled the first films to go into production from Slasher Films during a press conference this past weekend at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. One of the projects that the company is developing is "Wake The Dead", based on the comic book written by Steve Niles, who wrote the popular vampire comic "30 Days Of Night".

Slash described the project to Inside Movies, calling it "basically a modern, young Frankenstein story about a brilliant college student who's discovered how to animate dead tissue — but he's a teenager so he goes overboard."

The company has three other films in development, including "Nothing To Fear", about a town that sits on a gateway to hell; "Theorem", about a mathematician who figures out an equation for evil; and "The Other Kingdom", which is about a hospital struck by an epidemic that turns people into zombies.

One movie you won't see coming out of the company anytime soon is a film version of Slash's 2007 memoir. He told The Pulse Of Radio a while back that there was only one way he might allow that book to be adapted for the big screen. "The one thing I wouldn't have them do or allow them to do would be to actually do the book with the characters in it, the way that they are in real life as far as who they are," he said. "You know, if you wanted to take the story and make up some people (laughs) and change the names and all that kind of stuff, and make everybody fictional, it could be interesting. But if you were gonna try and go, 'Okay, this is Slash and this is Axl (Rose) and this is Slash's mom, and this character's gonna play Scott (Weiland),' no, I wouldn't allow it."

Niles told the Los Angeles Times about working with Slash, "We want to recapture the quality of horror like they made them in the '70s, horror where you care about the characters and story . . . When (I) met with Slash we immediately connected on our love of horror and the way we wanted to see horror films made. I never dreamed in a million years I'd get to meet Slash, let alone work with him. I'm thrilled."

"Wake The Dead" will be jointly produced by Slash and Rob Eric of Scout Productions. Jay Russell ("Ladder 49") will direct, according to Collider.