Post by Todd Tjersland on Jun 14, 2006 1:44:46 GMT -8
I remember I got very excited in the 11th grade when I stumbled across a garish horror paperback called SLUGS by Shaun Hutson... I think I was one of the few people in the world who were overjoyed when they discovered it had been turned into a movie, LOL. Basically, flesh-eating mutant slugs crawl out of toilets (or wherever) and sneak up on you, then eat you alive!
I was overjoyed to quickly find Hutson's SLUGS 2: BREEDING GROUND, EREBUS, SHADOWS, THE SKULL and SPAWN; the latter being about a retarded janitor who works at a hospital shoveling aborted fetuses into an oven. One night, during a storm, he takes pity on three dead fetuses and buries them under an electrical pylon... Sure enough, the pylon gets hit by lightning and the three tiny terrors come back to life as telepathic, blood-sucking monsters who command the retard to bring them fresh victims! Come to think of it, in hindsight, this might have been the primary influence for the flying demon baby in my film, THE NECRO FILES! I absolutely LOVED those early Hutson books and reread them to pieces.
Hutson disappeared from US bookstore shelves in the early 90s and doesn't seem to write the same kind of over-the-top, insane monster gorefests anymore. Too bad, but I suppose that would be like asking me to write about nothing but zombies for the rest of my life! *shudder*
Damn. I'm going to have to try and track down some of Shaun's newer books...
shaunhutson.com
I was overjoyed to quickly find Hutson's SLUGS 2: BREEDING GROUND, EREBUS, SHADOWS, THE SKULL and SPAWN; the latter being about a retarded janitor who works at a hospital shoveling aborted fetuses into an oven. One night, during a storm, he takes pity on three dead fetuses and buries them under an electrical pylon... Sure enough, the pylon gets hit by lightning and the three tiny terrors come back to life as telepathic, blood-sucking monsters who command the retard to bring them fresh victims! Come to think of it, in hindsight, this might have been the primary influence for the flying demon baby in my film, THE NECRO FILES! I absolutely LOVED those early Hutson books and reread them to pieces.
Hutson disappeared from US bookstore shelves in the early 90s and doesn't seem to write the same kind of over-the-top, insane monster gorefests anymore. Too bad, but I suppose that would be like asking me to write about nothing but zombies for the rest of my life! *shudder*
Damn. I'm going to have to try and track down some of Shaun's newer books...
shaunhutson.com
