“An incredibly fast, brutal and exciting thriller that has it all. A wild ride on the highway that the reader will not forget quickly.”

July 16th, 2020

Excellent new review on Dark Owl of the German translation of my road thriller novel WHITE KNUCKLE from the Berlin publisher, Savage Types.

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Full English translation of the German review:

“From the screenwriter of the films “Hitcher”, “Near Dark” and “Blue Steel.” A serial killer on the highways has been killing his female victims unmolested for decades, leaving a trail of blood and tears. Known under the CB nickname WHITE KNUCKLE, the trucker, who kills with perverse lust, cruelly killed hundreds of women and buried their bodies all over the country. But now the young FBI agent Sharon Ormsby is on his heels to stop him. Undercover, at the side of an experienced trucker, hunts for the killer in his eighteen-wheeled monster. That means one thing above all: a tough showdown on the highway!

A serial killer is up to mischief on the highway. His prey: pretty women. He’s after her and he’s hungry. In his truck he has his own hiding place for his victims, which is very well hidden. Sounds scary? It is. White Knuckle manages to take the reader on an extremely exciting journey right from the start. But be careful, this will not be a smooth ride! This trip is bloodthirsty, dangerous and brutal. You experience the characters up close through very lively descriptions. The reader experiences feelings, such as fears, despair and hopelessness, up close. It feels like you’re right in the middle of it and even in this truck. Goosebumps feeling guaranteed! The book and its story are captivating and action-packed. You can hardly put the book aside. At the end, White Knuckle puts a real icing on the cake, I promise, it’s terrific.

An incredibly fast, brutal and exciting thriller that has it all. A wild ride on the highway that the reader will not forget quickly.”

My ghost movie 100 FEET with Famke Janssen gets a tribute article on Arrow In The Head at JoBlo.Com.

July 6th, 2020

Huge thanks to Arrow in the Head at JoBlo.com for a terrific tribute video article on my ghost movie 100 FEET. This is the best piece anybody has ever done on the film. Informative, fast-paced and full of great stuff about the flick, it is must viewing for fans of my work and horror fans in general.

https://bit.ly/3f6JucO

During this period of everybody locked down in our homes sharing anxieties of isolation and dread, audiences can personally relate to 100 FEET in a way they couldn’t before, making the movie more frightening than ever. We’re all in lockdown inside our homes just like the movie’s heroine Marnie played by Famke Janssen but her problems are worse than yours since she’s shut in with the violent ghost of her dead husband who doesn’t believe in social distancing. The suffocating claustrophobia of Famke’s situation in the movie is so identifiable to us these days, viewing 100 FEET now may be unbearably intense for some of you, get in your head and give you nightmares. You have been warned.

100 FEET is my personal favorite of the films I’ve made and my best job as a director. It’s easy to frighten people with gore and jump scares but true skill in suspense lies in the creation of tension without any of that. It’s about manipulating audience expectations so just when they think something is about to happen, it doesn’t and when they least expect it, it does. 100 FEET is basically an entire movie with a woman alone in a house with a ghost. The ghost is almost never seen, and when ghost attacks are always terrifying and unexpected. This is a very Hitchcockian film of elevated suspense.

This movie got made during the trend of torture porn horror films so I wanted to go completely in the other direction and scare the hell of the audience without relying on kills or gory violence like everyone else was doing. And it worked. 100 FEET keeps you on the edge of your seat for ninety minutes and there is only one kill in the entire movie! What interested me making 100 FEET was using classic techniques of point of view and visual subliminal suggestion to generate tension and lead you around by the nose rather than hit you in the face.

As a director, it was a wonderful challenge. If you’ve seen 100 FEET before watch it again because you’ll get more out of seeing the film now than you did then. If you haven’t seen it, I would definitely not recommend watching it alone locked down in your house late at night.

Or maybe I would.

My new western novel BRANDED from Kensington Books is available for pre-order.

June 16th, 2020

BRANDED, the third novel in my Joe Noose Western series from Kensington Books, is now available for pre-order in Mass Market Paperback and Kindle editions on Amazon.

From the publisher’s description: “SCARRED FOR LIFE. Joe Noose hunts down the first known serial killer on the American frontier in this trailblazing thriller. A new kind of evil has come to the Old West. A killer as cold and hard as the Wyoming winter. He wanders from town to town. Slaughters entire families along the way. With grotesque glee, he brands the letter Q in his victims’ flesh. Joe Noose knows the killer’s identity. He recognizes the killer’s brand. He bears the same scar from his childhood—and he’s determined to stop this madman once and for all. Two U.S. Marshals have agreed to help Joe. But they’ve never hunted a killer like this before. A sadist who kills for pleasure—and scars you for life…”

BRANDED is available for pre-order on Amazon at https://amzn.to/2YrD8PW

Excellent German book review of the new German translation edition of my serial killer road thriller novel WHITE KNUCKLE from the Berlin publisher Savage Types.

May 25th, 2020

“On the highways, a serial killer has been killing his female victims unmolested for decades, leaving a trail of blood and tears. Known under the CB nickname “WHITE KNUCKLE”, the trucker, who kills with perverse lust, cruelly killed hundreds of women and buried their bodies all over the country. But now the young FBI agent Sharon Ormsby is on his heels to stop him. Undercover, at the side of an experienced trucker, chases the killer in his eighteen-wheeled monster.

That means one thing above all: a tough showdown on the highway!

The author Eric Red should / should be known to a number of film fans. His screenplays include several classic action genres. Who doesn’t know “Hitcher, the highway killer”? Now, the small but extremely fine publisher Savage Types, based in Berlin, has cut the ignorant of publishers for mass digestion and brought this incredible cracker to Germany. This fast-paced thriller is just beginning in the mild wind of familiar fabrics from the country that likes to indulge in selfishness and is currently trying to let epidemics or viruses do their job of destroying the world. Resisters who develop a serum are bought up, if they can. Fortunately, you don’t need serum for serial killers, just a few pieces of hot lead and a lot of courage. FBI agent Sharon Ormsby has this to offer when she is targeted at the unknown murderer, who soon turns out to be a mass murderer in the course of the investigation (that much can be revealed). She quickly realizes that a trucker must be the culprit. A track that follows it is wrong. The guy is on the road and rages worse and worse. He is a brutal, bloodthirsty sadist who torments and guts his victims and does worse things, which you can get pictured at the end. In general, the language, the style of the author can set the reader’s head cinema in motion and soon, like in convoy, he sprints across the state’s overland routes and remembers a nasty grinning Rutger Hauer in every car or family carriage, who already made his victims has its sights on. Increases reading pleasure even more. It is also very good that this torture, which is emotional for the protagonists, is described explicitly and close to life and only leaves space for a few small jokes. And because such a normal serial killer hunt no longer really works on its own, Eric Red has decided in some side lines, some quite important, unlike in the giant shelf mainstream, for customers who don’t know what they want, but only want what they know – the crap from the advertising time sprinkling – to close secretly quietly and differently than expected. Small WOW effects and its finale in the whole story add another one. Ultra-extreme (at least for the free market with its Censorship regulations that tell adult people in a kind of advanced self-castration (FSK) what they have to read or look at), hard, bloody and sometimes freaky as well as exciting, nerve-wracking White Knuckle Ride from a story in which the book is so firmly before suspense includes that you can watch your own ankles as they gradually change their natural skin color to white. Is there an unspeakable horror? Quien sabe? THAT must be thriller entertainment. Thank you, Savage Types publisher.”

Read the full review in German at: https://bit.ly/2A7bkWZ

BRANDED, the third novel in my Joe Noose Western series from Kensington Books, now available for pre-order.

May 3rd, 2020

In Mass Market Paperback and Kindle editions on Amazon at https://amzn.to/2YrD8PW.

From the publisher’s description: “SCARRED FOR LIFE. Joe Noose hunts down the first known serial killer on the American frontier in this trailblazing thriller. A new kind of evil has come to the Old West. A killer as cold and hard as the Wyoming winter. He wanders from town to town. Slaughters entire families along the way. With grotesque glee, he brands the letter Q in his victims’ flesh. Joe Noose knows the killer’s identity. He recognizes the killer’s brand. He bears the same scar from his childhood—and he’s determined to stop this madman once and for all. Two U.S. Marshals have agreed to help Joe. But they’ve never hunted a killer like this before. A sadist who kills for pleasure—and scars you for life…”

Book cover unveiled for BRANDED, the third novel in my Joe Noose Western book series from Kensington Books.

April 30th, 2020

Coming to bookstores February 2021.

From the publisher’s description: “SCARRED FOR LIFE. Joe Noose hunts down the first known serial killer on the American frontier in this trailblazing thriller. A new kind of evil has come to the Old West. A killer as cold and hard as the Wyoming winter. He wanders from town to town. Slaughters entire families along the way. With grotesque glee, he brands the letter Q in his victims’ flesh. Joe Noose knows the killer’s identity. He recognizes the killer’s brand. He bears the same scar from his childhood—and he’s determined to stop this madman once and for all. Two U.S. Marshals have agreed to help Joe. But they’ve never hunted a killer like this before. A sadist who kills for pleasure—and scars you for life…”

Thanks to my editor Gary Goldstein and the great team at Kensington Books and Pinnacle Books.

The new German translation edition of my road thriller novel WHITE KNUCKLE publication day.

March 6th, 2020

Trade paperback and digital editions available now from the publisher Savage Types in Germany.

Trade paperback cover art unveiled for the German translation of my road thriller novel WHITE KNUCKLE from Savage Types!

February 10th, 2020

Coming in March.

Translation from German of the publisher press release: “Good News: Savage Types goes Mainstream🤪!

Of course we won’t let ourselves down and that’s why we present, of course not yet final (you already know that from us 😅😜), extra produced cover of the thriller white knuckle – bloody highway by Eric Red! Our first us license will be released exclusively in March at the leipzig book fair and of course be available at our booth 🤩.

For the first time ever, there is a novel by the Hollywood Screenwriter, such films like hitcher-der highway killer and near dark, as well as director of such classics as body parts and bad moon in Germany and it’s our biggest project ever! We are really excited about that 😱🤯. The translation comes from Michael Krug and the cover of björn Craig. More info will follow the days!”

German translation of my thriller novel WHITE KNUCKLE coming in March.

November 4th, 2019

I’m proud to announce that my novel WHITE KNUCKLE will be republished in a German translation from Savage Types, a classy, edgy new publisher in Germany! The road thriller book will be released in March in high-quality hardcover, trade paperback and digital editions. It’s my first foreign translation an author, and am very excited! Thrilled to be working with Sandra and Chris at Savage Types.

Cover artwork revealed for the Blu Ray of my horror/thriller BODY PARTS from Shout! Factory and Scream Factory!

October 7th, 2019

Street date 1/28/19.