Stark Raven mad?

We just got news that the here! gay television network has wrapped production on an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, directed by half-naked-boys-in-peril auteur Dave DeCoteau.

You might be familiar with DeCoteau's particular brand of tidy-whitey horror from such movies as The Brotherhood, Leeches, and Voodoo Academy, which lined up scores of Abercrombie-ready fellas and placed them in perilous -- and oftentimes hilariously homoerotic -- situations. Now that DeCoteau is directing for here!, let's hope that the loaded glances and clothing-optional satanic rituals that fill his films graduate to something a little more concrete.

Here's a note from the press release about the film:

Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, from a screenplay by Matthew Jason Walsh (The Brotherhood), puts a new spin on the gloomy and macabre proceedings of the classic Poe story. The film centers on a group of young men and women in Britain who throw an extravagant party at an eerie mansion said to be the site of an infamous mass-murder. When the festivities are cut short by an ominous visitor, all hell breaks loose. As the murderer begins picking off the party participants one-by-one, old grudges resurface and new suspicions arise, making the entire affair a deadly night to remember.

I've been a fan of DeCoteau since he made the cult classic Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama back in the 80's, and he's an absolute doll besides -- to learn more about this homo horror legend, read our interview with him from last Halloween.

The above pic, by the way, is of Dave directing two young bucks on the set of his film Beastly Boyz. It's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it.