Slash Joins 'Boogeyman' Sequels Scribe For New... Um... Slasher Flick

Now that Guns N' Roses have been confirmed as not playing next year's Soundwave festival after giving no sign at all that that would be the case to begin with, perhaps we can all turn our attention to something that longtime guitarist Slash actually is doing with his time — namely, producing horror movies through his film company, Slasher Films.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Slash has taken up with Revolver Picture Company (Haunt, Beneath) and Boogeyman 2 & 3 scribe Brian Sieve to commence work on the new movie, which is designed as a franchise-starter and "harks back to popular slasher franchises of the '80s like Halloween and Friday The 13th".

Revolver executive Nick Phillips told THR of the budding partnership, "We knew he was into horror movies so we had a big dinner. He gets it, from the old Universal classics to the '70s and, yes, excitedly for us, the '80s".

"They had an idea that tied in perfectly with a theme that I was working on at the time," Slash added. "From there, together with Brian Sieve, I think we developed something awesome."

The veteran axe-man — whose real name is Saul Hudson — formed Slasher Films back in 2010, which so far has released widely panned 2013 supernatural horror Nothing Left To Fear, featuring music composed by Slash and starred surprisingly high-profile actors such as Anne Heche and Clancy Brown, with another horror, The Hell Within, on the way.