Total Film have discovered that the Joyce Buckingham novel “Demon Keeper” is going to be made into a full-length feature film. The director of the animated feature “The Tale of Desperaux,” Sam Fell, is set to direct the feature. The plot is pretty typical somewhat child-oriented ghost-story. A young person inherits a house which is infested by Demons. He works very hard to keep everything in check, but when he finally secures a date, someone comes in and upsets all the order he’s imposed on the house, releasing The Beast. The Beast is no ordinary monster.True to the form of any good somewhat youth-oriented horror, The Beast is a bad creature. A creature so evil it is known as the Killer of Lost Children. That’s right, not only does it kill kids, it kills lost kids. Kids you left under the couch last night and can’t find this morning. Kids that have already been misplaced, and in their lost and lonely amblings, get killed by The Beast. Quite how a Demon in a house can go and find lost children I don’t know, but that could be an exciting feature.

The novel, the first writen by Buckingham, is definitely for a younger audience, and counts as youthful horror, much like Goosebumps was to most of our generation. But combining a good dose of humour with a demon that eats kids seems to be quite an interesting thing for youthful kids to get their first kick of horror with, so I figure it deserved a mention. The Author has a website up for this novel and the details are interesting even at first glance. I’m not saying it’ll be the horror film of the year, but it is probably going to be as scary as some of the recent horror outings, and at least have the good decency to not pretend to be super-scary.