We were never really that into Stephen King books – mainly because they were mostly read by the smelly boy in our class with the bumfluff moustache and the stinking, dirt-encrusted Megadeth T-shirt.

Having said that, the movie adaptation of his new novel Cell looks like it’ll go down a treat. Because it’ll be a zombie movie directed by Eli Roth, who was last seen bringing us scenes of people getting their faces blowtorched and chests drilled in recent US box office number one Hostel.

For a while back there, after doing the ’scary pet’ thing with Pet
Cemetery, the ’scary car’ thing with Carrie and the ’scary lawnmower man’ thing
with The Lawnmower Man, Stephen King (Books) seemed to retire into a kind of boring life of
writing sentimental nonsense like The Shawshank Redemption and The
Green Mile. But now the old Stephen King is back! The new Stephen King book, Cell, is all
about mobile phones turning the world’s population into violent,
mindless zombies. Ace.

And, even better, it’s been announced that Eli Roth – who can number
getting a Power Ranger to take her clothes off in Cabin Fever among his achievements – has
signed up to direct the film adaptation of Cell. Roth’s last film Hostel
took $47 million at the box office, and he’s going to make Cell just as soon as he’s stopped thinking up horrific ways for people to die in his new film.

Bob Weinstein of Dimension films, which bought the movie rights to Cell, told Variety:

"The combination
of technology and horror is a fun high-concept, and Eli will make it
right after he finishes Hostel 2."

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