At high noon today, Tuesday, November 27th, dozens of angry horror writers converged on the Executive Gate of Warner Brothers Studios in beautiful downtown Burbank. Now four weeks into the WGA 2007 Contract Negotiations, they were mad as Hell… and nobody knows from Hell quite like the Horror Writers of the WGA! Led by cod-cleric strike captains Scott Kosar (author of the recent Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Amityville Horror remakes) and Jace Anderson & Adam Geirasch (the writing team responsible for Tobe Hooper's The Toolbox Murders and Dario Argento's Mother of Tears: The Third Mother), a street corner exorcism was carried out under atypically bright and sunny skies (and, fittingly, a a grave stone's throw from Forest Hill Cemetery) to drive out the demons of stinginess from the eternal soul of The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

Highly visible among the normally faceless scribes of cinefear were Masters of Horror Mick Garris and Stuart Gordon (pictured right and flanking Cynthia Garris), as well as veteran scribes Daniel Farrands (Hall6ween: The Curse of Michael Myers and the upcoming The Girl Next Door), Stephen Susco (The Grudge, The Grudge 2) and David J. Schow (The Crow, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning). Although protester placards promised terrible things to those caught crossing the picket line, the demonstration was carried off peaceably, with motorists passing on Olive Avenue honking their horns in support of the horror writers. Monster icons Michael Myers and Chucky were also in attendance, but in solidarity with the striking writers, they said not a word. Their silence spoke volumes.