Fright Club

Notorious shock-rocker and America's favourite social scapegoat, Marilyn Manson may soon be presenting his nightmarish vision of the world on the big screen if his immediate plans for the future are anything to go by. In an interview conducted by Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk in yesterday's Sunday Herald (17 December 2000), Manson said: 'The natural thing for me is to be involved in movies, but it really has to be on my terms. I think I feel more suited as a director than an actor, although I like to act.' Manson, who made his feature film debut as a porn star in David Lynch's Lost Highway, is currently in talks with El Topo director Alejandro Jodorowsky. 'He's a Chilean director who worked with [Salvador] Dali,' said Manson of his potential cinematic collaborator. 'He wrote a script called Able Cain and it's a fantastic thing. He's had it for about 15 years, and he hasn't wanted to do it, but he contacted me because I was the only person he wanted to work with. And the character is very different from what people know of me, and that's the only reason I'm interested.' However, given that Jodorowsky's El Topo contains scenes of self-immolation, dismemberment, Christ imagery and excessive violence, don't expect Manson's involvement with Abel Cain to be too much of a departure from his satanic rock star image.