Breaking news according to a shady Hollywood source of mine, a screenplay of Dahmeresque pas-de-deux "Exquisite Corpse" is currently being reviewed for production considerations by a major studio.
Exquisite Corpse is based on the interesting factoid that Jeffrey Dahmer's corpse was kept shackled even unto the morgue, so terrifying was his person to the people who handled it prior to his death in prison. The novel begins when some well-meaning autopsy technician, trying to dispel FUD, insists that the shackles are removed from a dead killer with a similar MO. Woe unto him, for the man on the slab still stirs, and so gains his hideous freedom. Eventually the killer cruises a victim who turns out to be just as bloodthirsty (and accomplished) as he is, and the two of them go on their merry way, stabbing and slicing through the New Orleans gay scene. Eventually there forms a love triangle with a hapless Vietnamese twink named Tran (hickory smoked is so crazy).
I did a little poking around and found out Simon Rumley, director of "The Living and the Dead", was the author of this screenplay, and had this to say about the infamous violence in Brite's most gratuitous novel:
My source put it more bluntly: "I bet it could be excellently crazy, but some things are going to have to be modified. Screwdriver ass rape is really hard to get a budget on."
