February 16, 2025

Ripped To Shreds – Third Wave – Late Pledges Announcement

Ripped To Shreds - Late Pledges

Late Pledges Now Open on Kickstarter
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Main Objective
Over 300 fans pledged more than $28,000 to bring RIPPED TO SHREDS to life. If you missed the main campaign, it’s not too late! Thanks to Kickstarter’s new Late Pledges feature, for a limited time you can still support the project and guarantee yourself a copy of the book.

Ripped To Shreds Page

About the project:
RIPPED TO SHREDS is a period-authentic graphic novel adaptation of Michael Johnson’s “lost- slasher” screenplay from 1980.

Originally scheduled to begin filming in Dec. 1980, RIPPED TO SHREDS went through years of development hell before funding ultimately fell through and production collapsed.

Now, nearly 45 years later, the long-lost script is getting a faithful adaption in graphic novel form. At long last, fans of 80s horror can, in some way, see what might have been.

Ripped To Shreds Adapted

About the adaptation
Adaptation director Scott Alan Gregory, artist Thiago Motta, and colorist Karla Aguilar have taken period-accuracy seriously. The overall experience is painstakingly designed to mimic the feeling of watching an actual 80s slasher film. Wardrobes, props, settings, camera angles, and even the filmic color palettes of the 80s have been faithfully recreated for the book.

Friday the 13th connection
Russell Todd and Lauren-Marie Taylor from Friday the 13th Part 2 reunite… in comic book form! The RIPPED TO SHREDS graphic novel “stars” the 80s likenesses of Russell Todd and Lauren-Marie Taylor from Friday the 13th Part 2, lending an ever greater element of period-authenticity to the project.

Ripped To Shreds Book

About the story
The legend of Shadow Hills is the stuff of campfire tales: The maniac with the metal claw. The three drunk girls who give him a ride. The fiery crash… And the lone survivor, institutionalized for life. But could there be any truth to the decades-old story?

That’s what teenager Maddie, her boyfriend Richard, and her cousin Sharon, aim to discover as they investigate the supposedly haunted hills—and the legend surrounding them—after one of their friends is killed there under mysterious circumstances.

The police are useless. The suspects are many. And as bodies continue to pile up, Maddie and her friends must get to the bottom of things before they, too, end up… RIPPED TO SHREDS!

Ripped To Shreds Volume

About the Kickstarter
Three versions of the book are available through the Kickstarter: a standard trade paperback; a deluxe hardcover edition with over 100 extra pages of behind-the-scenes features; and a 400-page, limited slipcase edition, which comes signed by the original screenwriter and includes a complete facsimile of the long-lost 1980 screenplay incorporated into the book.

Ripped To Shreds Page (2)

Other bits of interest

Justin Kerswell, author of The Teenage Slasher Movie Book and host of The Hysteria Continues podcast, contributes an interview with original screenwriter Michael Johnson for the special features

R.G. Henning, author of SACKHEAD: The Definitive Retrospective on Friday the 13th Part 2, contributes interviews with “cast” members Russell Todd and Lauren-Marie Taylor for the special features

Includes a 13-song retro soundtrack by composer Matias Canteros

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