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- Adam Gierasch will write (with partner Jace Anderson) and direct a remake of Kevin Tenney’s 1988 shocker NIGHT OF THE DEMONS.

Gierasch got in touch with Fango to discuss his involvement and ambitions for the project. “I was approached by Kevin and [producing partner Greg McKay],” he tells Fango. “They came to see an early screening of [Gierasch’s directorial debut] AUTOPSY, and we put our heads together and decided it might be something fun for me to do. Kevin is very involved; I talk to him all the time, and he’s got a lot of good ideas. The original movie presents a palette to do a new and exciting demons-chasing-people-around-the-house-on-Halloween movie, with some really cool gore and creatures, and to give the demons individual personalities. I want to try my best to create the ultimate Halloween movie.”

The big question for fans of the first film is: Will there be a reprise of Linnea Quigley’s infamous lipstick gag? “Let’s just say there will be a version of the famous lipstick scene,” Gierasch reveals, “but it’s going to be much, much, much more extreme. I want to make sure fans of the original like this one, and remain true to its spirit—just more nasty, sexual and extreme. I’m really going to try to go hog-f**kin’ wild with it!”

"[DEMONS] is a modern take but Angela is still in it," Gierasch tells the site, referring to the vicious possessed girl, played by Amelia Kinkade (pictured in the first of two subsequent DEMONS sequels). "It's got blood, guts, Halloween, breasts, kids, demons and everything else that makes life worth living."

DEMONS 2008 will go into production in the spring.