Is it true there is a completed version of a GIRL NEXT DOOR movie as well? If so, when will that be making the rounds?

Hey Myspace Friend Jack,  

It was really nice and an honor to meet you today. Thanks for doing these conventions, your sane fans appreciate it! 

My friends and I totally dug The Lost. We loved it when the detective goes postal on Ray. I wanted to pound on him too, and I'm not usually violent!  

We only wish we could have been present for the entire panel discussion.

Maybe they'll screen The Girl Next Door, next year? With Q&A? 

Thanks for being so nice to us and entertaining our SKEMERs proposal. 

Fare thee well,

NOT the girl next door, Cheryl

i just came across J's Myspace profile by accident when searching for news on a particular version of Offseason. it's time to get this profile going. there are too many hardcore horrorlit fans i've met who've *never* heard of Ketchum. we never want JK to be mainstream (haha. that's funny. hahaha.), but intelligent fans of the really dark stuff always -- without a friggin' exception -- gibberingly thank me after i intro them to his work (i make them start with OS, of course). it's not like i can actually refrain from introducing them. in fact, it's probably an evil thing. i reap a hellish pleasure as i watch them walk off with my loaner copy of OS. but there you have it.

anyway, i'm glad that films are finally starting to be made of some of the works. for years i wondered just when some underground director was going to take one and run. (don't get me wrong: thank god JK's work hasn't caught the attn of some fuckwitted big screen entity.  i can see it now: The Rifle: based on a short story by Jack Ketchum. Rated PG-13. In theaters now!)

 i remain cautiously optimistic about GND. or maybe, optimistically cynical. i can't decide. i've just seen too many perfect stories ruined in film, as we all have. in The Lost, Sivertson gave us some of the same great filmwork he did in May. i can't speak to his other directorial projects, b/c i haven't seen any, but i'm sure it's got to be a difficult undertaking to try to capture visually what Jack does on paper. Sivertson came through though, imo. i doubt a film version of a JK book will ever leave me with that empty, shocked, dry-mouthed, stomach-punched feeling, but The Lost came pretty damned close at times.

we'll see what's done w/ GND. i'm excited.

m