The third and final episode of Joe Dante's Netflix-exclusive SPLATTER premiered last week on Friday the 13th.  Not ones to be slackers, apparently,Dante and SPLATTER star Tony Todd are already onto new projects.  Dante is producing a movie called TRAIL OF BLOOD, which has a new website;  Todd is to begin work on Kilo Entertainment's ONE BY ONE.

The plot for TRAIL OF BLOOD sounds a lot like the story of Jack Ketchum's novel COVER;  both revolve around a veteran who's cut himself off from society to live in the woods, and goes on the attack once a group of campers invades his territory.  The website provides a trailer, which is a bit confusing, as much of what the crazed vet says sounds... well, crazed.  It seems as if the days of GREMLINS are long behind Dante, which is a shame.

ONE ON ONE sounds like familiar grounds for Tony Todd.  According to THR, he'll play Railroad Jack the Reaper (and really, that should either be Railroad Jack, or Jack the Reaper;  plugging them together makes the name both bulky and silly), a carnival owner who decides to kill a busload of teens when they crash on the old proverbial deserted highway.  It sounds cliche, but Todd excels at these roles, and usually brings something interesting to the table.  Todd mentioned ONE BY ONE in our Icons exclusive interview, which you should read if you haven't already.

It would be nice if both of these projects panned out, as SPLATTER was way too silly for me.  Dante and Todd deserve better material.

Check out the TRAIL OF BLOOD website here, and the THR article here.  And here's the TRAIL trailer (hehe) for you to take a look at.

--Phil Fasso