Wes Craven's My Soul to Take, previously known as 25/8 (because, like, you'll be scared 25 hours a day, eight days a week) has been getting a bit overshadowed in the news stakes with all the talk of **Scream 4. But his first film as a director and writer since** Wes Craven's New Nightmare** in 1994 has finally been given a release date. Surprise surprise, it'll be out, in the US at least, on October 29th.
The story involves a serial killer, supposedly killed sixteen years ago, returning to murder the kids born on the night of his apparent death. Does that sound a little bit like something else to you? Craven described his new monster last year as "a figure who sleeps under bridges and deep in the woods and eats bark".
The film stars relative unknowns Max Thieriot, John Magaro, Paulina Olszynski, Nick Lashaway and Emily Meade. Rogue Pictures are either so supremely confident in the film that they're willing to take on Saw VII in the veteran franchise's now-traditional slot, or they figure the only time of year My Soul to Take has any chance of taking any money at all, is at Hallowe'en.
With Saw VI's takings down on previous instalments though, and VII reportedly the last one, maybe Rogue are looking to stake out their pitch early for future Bark Eater episodes?