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In keeping with our continuing efforts to highlight news of film productions that actually look promising, we'd like to introduce a film that'd just plain difficult to make up one's mind about . . . On one had it's trailer looks cool and the premise sounds enough like The Descent's to pique our jaded interest. Unfortunately on the other hand there's a an actress who's choices have been decidedly hit and miss, a first time director who's an American citizen (a bad omen for horror pics these days) a studio known for a certain amount of crap (but also for the aforementioned The Descent) and then there's the part where Pink (yes the singer, yes you read that correctly) is involved.

Ok, so the film in question is called "Catacombs," and will go something like this:

Victoria (Shannyn Sossamon of Rules of Attraction, 40 Days and 40 Nights and well The Others) is in Paris for the first time visiting her wilder/crazier sister Carolyn (Pink a/k/a Alecia Moore). One night, Carolyn and Victoria venture into the City of Lights underground rave scene, and we do mean under ground literally (as in the over 200 miles of 14th Century limestone funerary caverns waiting under the Left Bank of the Seine) Something separates the two and down there—surrounded by 7 million bodies of the ancient dead the hopelessly lost and easily frightened Victoria becomes convinced that she's being pursued through the near complete darkness by someone or maybe something even more horrifying than she imagines.

Now here's the non-Pink related ify part. All of the above will be brought to you courtesy of Twisted Pictures (Read: Saw), the genre film division of Evolution Entertainment, slash Lions Gate Films, will be co-written and co-directed by David Elliot and Blood and Water illustrator Tomm Coker and in Bucharest, Romania.


Here's how the suits put it:

"The stories we are attracted to tend to deal with universal fears -- being trapped, being lost, claustrophobia, etc.," said Twisted's Burg, Koules and Hoffman. "Coker and Elliot's CATACOMBS script deals with them all, and is set in a location that is truly one of the most terrifying on earth. They have a tremendous vision for the film, and we look forward to supporting this new and exciting filmmaking team."

"David Elliott and Tomm Coker have crafted a nerve-shattering spookfest with CATACOMBS, and the unique setting shows our commitment to try new things with our Twisted Pictures venture," said Block.

Not that they would ever announce a film by saying that it will probably be a piece of crap but my kids a big fan of Pink's and Sossamon is pretty hot in that disheveled puppy-dog kind of way.