Originally shot in 1984 under the title Twisted Souls by Brendan Faulkner and Thomas Doran with producer/co-writer Frank Farel, the film became Spookies after creative and legal disputes led the financier to commission newly shot material and a radical re-edit by Eugenie “Genie” Joseph… a production saga that has fueled the film’s legend for decades. Spookies had an impressive theatrical/video life in the late ’80s, where it developed a devoted cult following, bolstered by its menagerie of creatures and a widely discussed “two-films-stitched-together” story.
“The checkered history of our movie, Spookies, has been redeemed since its rediscovery by fans, and this unexpected novelization of our screenplay now allows me to refer to it as ‘literature’—which is somehow something I never imagined.”
Frank Farel, co-writer/producer of Spookies
Michael Gingold’s adaptation will faithfully adapt the original Twisted Souls screenplay. A haunted-house story with a monster gauntlet that was devised by the creators, bringing all the characters, lore, and story back to what it always should have been.
