Corey Taylor gives major update on his horror film Zombie Vs. Ninja

Die-hard Corey Taylor fans will no doubt be aware of the Slipknot frontman's huge love and admiration for the horror film genre, but the existence of a Corey-written film script may have slipped under the radar.

Speaking to Loz Guest, in a wide-ranging interview where he teased something "massive" for Slipknot, Corey gave us a pretty major update on his movie 'Zombie vs Ninja', divulging that he's working with Greg Grunberg of Star Wars and Heroes fame to bring the project together, and that he's got Tom Savini and his special FX team on board, best known for their work on horror classic Dawn of the Dead.

"I'm actually really gaining traction with my horror movie that I wrote, Zombie Vs. Ninja," he confirmed. "I started work on it a couple of years ago, and I've been writing scripts constantly, like I've written about five or six - actually, it's six completed, one of which was this one.

"It's exactly as described; it's zombies versus ninjas and it's absolute mayhem. I have Tom Savini (Dawn of the Dead) and his team connected to to do all the effects, and I've been shopping it for a while and I hooked up with Greg Grunberg (Heroes, Star Wars, Star Trek) who has a production company, and we're working together to put this together."

Corey added that the film is starting to make serious progress, "We just got some interest and some money put up, so that we may start shooting this in the next couple months. I'm thrilled."

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"It's one of the things that I've always wanted to do - not only write a movie, but see it from soup to nuts, like from the creation all the way to the step and repeat at the premiere. That's been one of the things that I would love to check off my big checklist, my big bucket list. But I'm pretty stoked, we'll see what happens."

He also mused over his documentaries: In Search of Darkness I and II, "Doing those documentaries is very much just like me my friends sitting around talking movies, and that's really what it was, just getting to break down certain scenes of some of our favourite horror movies and having fun with it.

"Number two not only has even more interviews and stuff, but it's longer, it's really rad. We just celebrated eighties horror, and just had a great time talking about it, because we were all basically kind of the same age, and we all kind of grew up in that video rental age you know where when you walked in, and sometimes you would watch a movie sight unseen just because of the artwork on the cover, or the description in the in the notes, or just the outlandish picture that just might happen to be on the box somewhere.

"It was just it was cool to be able to share that side of my of my childhood and know that a bunch of other people have grown up like that."

Corey also offered up his opinions on the great Jason Voorhees vs. Michael Myers debate, "See now this is this is tough. To me, the obvious choice is Michael, because he's not as supernatural - or at least he didn't used to be.

"There was a darker mystique to Michael because you didn't understand him and where he was coming from, at least from the original movie, which is scarier in a lot of ways. I don't get it with Jason, there was almost like this killing zombie thing, he's very much a zombie. I would say, Michael is a more compelling character, Jason has better movies."

The eery Michael Myers in Halloween - Corey Taylor's choice in the Jason v Michael debate.

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