Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Looks like our own Drew McWeeny and Scott Swan are really on the way to getting their horror project, BAT OUT OF HELL, underway.

Noneother than Joe Dante (HOWLING, GREMLINS, MATINEE) has signed on to direct the flick about the hijackers of a plane who have to deal with something... not all that full of light and sunshine onboard.

Congrats to Moriarty and helluva catch. I've always thought Dante still has it in him. After hearing the horror stories about working with the studio on the god awful Looney Tunes movie, I have faith that you can't lay that turd at his feet. One of the stories, by the way, involved a Warner Bros exec sending a note that said, "Why does the rabbit keep saying "What's up, Doc?" No shit.

Would love to see Dante pull off another great flick... and no matter what, that means we'll get Dick Miller on the silver screen again in some form, so I'm a happy camper.