Worst. News. Ever.

Between the month-long post-a-thon that took place here in October and the 25 Hour Exhumed Marathon over Halloween weekend I haven't had much energy to post of late.

But I couldn't let this piece of news from Bloody Disgusting go unreported:

We learned exclusively that Transition Entertainment is shooting a pilot presentation next April that will bring RE-ANIMATOR's Herbert West back as "a teenage Dr. Frankenstein for the new millennium". Entitled HERBERT WEST: RE-ANIMATOR THE SERIES, the pilot episode was written by Meredith Red and William Butler, with a director yet to be named.

Speaking as somebody whose favorite film of all-time – not just horror movie but movie, period – is RE-ANIMATOR, this is the kind of news that makes me die a little inside. I'll take consolation in the fact that tons of pilots get shot and never make it past the initial stages and another similarly horrible idea – the CW's ill-advised THE GRAYSONS about a pre-Robin Dick Grayson and clan – got canned shortly after it was spawned.

But one never knows. Hell, CBS had a serial zombie drama in the works a few years back but I think the failure of JERICHO soured the network on serial dramas.