Paradise Lost Finds Writers, Story Revealed

Bloody-Disgusting learned this evening that Swedish writers Mans Thunberg and Christian Hallman have been commissioned by Maverick Red (a genre division of Maverick Films) to draft a remake of Harry Kumel’s 1978 zombie picture Paradise Lost. Being tooted as “a modern, high-concept tour-de-force horror adventure,” the story is said to center around a desperate brother as he ventures through a world of “voodoo and white slavery” in search of his missing sister. Unluckily for noble old bro’, powerful magic and dark mytiscism come into the equation, as does his sis’ grisly murder and her stint as a zombie.

Now, how’s he gonna explain that one to mom?