The Misfits frontman Glenn Danzig is going from the stage back to the director’s chair for Hellmask, a new feature he will adapt from his own comic book.
The project will mark his third feature as a director, with the film based on his comic of the same name. Danzig’s publisher Verotik, which focuses on dark fantasy and horror, is behind Hellmask, which began life in the Verotik 30th anniversary issue in October 2023.
The book, per the logline, is “set against a brutal medieval backdrop filled with dark magic, armored warriors and massive bloody battle scenes.” Hellmask “follows a violent supernatural tale steeped in gothic atmosphere.”
Veteran indie horror and action filmmaker James Cullen Bressack is producing, with the film currently casting and planning to go before cameras in August. Bressack recently wrapped on a horror film shot entirely on VHS.
Danzig previously dove into his comic books for the screen with 2019’s Verotika, while he also directed the vampire spaghetti-western Death Rider in the House of Vampires, released in 2021.
In addition to The Misfits, he is the founder of the rock band Samhain and the metal band Danzig, and his music has also been featured in movies such as The Hangover and Tag.
Danzig is repped by CAA.
