Wes Craven Does Vegas - His Way

The SciFi Channel is reporting more news from San Francisco's WonderCon. Horror master Wes Craven told fans that he's writing "Wes Craven's Magick Macabre," a Las Vegas stage show that will mix magic and horror.

"It is a bloody magic show for an 1,800-seat theater in Las Vegas," Craven said in a panel at the annual comic-book convention over the weekend.

Craven, who was promoting his upcoming mutant horror movie, "The Hills Have Eyes" (a remake of Craven's own 1977 version), added that the Vegas show will feature production design by Mark Fisher, the Cirque du Soleil designer who also put together the Rolling Stones' Super Bowl halftime show (er... is that a good thing?) and Pink Floyd's "Off the Wall" tour.

Craven continued to say, "He [Fisher] brought in the guy [David Mendoza] who designed all of the illusions for Siegfried & Roy and put all of us into a room together, and we came up with [these] really terrific, scary, bloody, crazy ideas that we're going to do for a big show to play in Vegas to scare the pants off of everybody."

Craven offered no further details as to where or when the show might appear.

Hopefully it'll be minus the Siegfried & Roy tigers. That would be scary on a level than even Craven fans are prepared for. --Shannon Nolley

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