As most of you know, the writer's strike in Hollywood has rendered a lot of people jobless, not just the writers.  Scott Kosar, the scribe behind The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Machinist, had apparently had enough, and so he sent the word out to all the horror writers he could: it was time for an exorcism.

So yesterday (11/27), between sixty and eighty horror writers marched to the WB Lot to perform an exorcism.  The demonstration was a who's-who of horror; it found room for everyone from new writers like Drew McWeeny and Scott Swan to veterans like Don Mancini and Mick Garris (whose "Fear Itself" series is proceeding without him directly involved, due to guild rules).

If you don’t know, here’s the basic situation regarding the strike: writers want residuals for internet viewings of their work. Studio heads, already losing money from a couple of underwhelming years, don’t want to split the profits with writers. By its very nature, the argument is between people who deserve money and people unwilling to fork it over. The same idea holds true for our beloved horror genre; after all, someone has to conceive of all those ridiculous story turns and gore gags.

From all the websites posting this, here are the names I've been able to find:

Jace Anderson (Mother of Tears)

Dan Farrands (The Girl Next Door)

Mick Garris (Riding the Bullet)

Adam Gierasch (Mother of Tears)

Stuart Gordon (Stuck)

Matt Greenberg (The Fair-Haired Child)

David Hayter (Watchmen)

Brad Keene (The Grudge 3)

Evan Katz (Pop Skull)

Scott Kosar (The Machinist)

Don Mancini (Child’s Play)

Mike Mendez (The Gravedancers)

Drew McWeeny (Cigarette Burns)

Brian Nelson (30 Days of Night)

Steve Niles (30 Days of Night)

JT Petty (The Borrowers)

Eric Red (100 Feet)

Hans Rodionoff (The Lost Boys 2)

David J. Schow (The Crow)

David Seltzer (The Omen)

Scott Swan (Pro-Life)

Mark Swift (Friday the 13^th)

Stephen Susco (The Grudge)

Jake Wade Wall (Amusement)

James Wan (Saw)

Leigh Whannell (Saw)

Kudos to these guys (and the unnamed others involved) for standing up to the producers, in their own twisted way.  They represent a large chunk of Hollywood's money, and hopefully the producers remember that during this new round of negotiations.