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I just wanted you to know that I tried really hard to work in a crack about Denise Richards being thrilled about this particular headline ... but I've never really enjoyed cheap shots all that much, so I'll just leave it at that. Bloody Disgusting is now reporting that Charlie Sheen has been hired by Twisted Pictures to star in their new untitled horror flick. It was last April when the news first hit that the duo behind the Saw franchise were hard at work on a new story to gross out audiences with.

This one will center on a happy couple whose child is kidnapped and then killed by a pedophile. Unsatisfied with the results of the court system, the two decide to kidnap their son's killer and exact a little revenge of their own. The film had originally been titled Tortured, which is pretty self-explanatory, but it looks like Mark Burg and Oren Koules might have dropped the title to avoid confusion with an upcoming crime thriller starring Laurence Fishburne.

Rob Lieberman has already been hired to direct Marek Posival's script. Liberman has mainly worked in TV but he has directed a few features, including Fire in The Sky back in 1993. Posival is a relative newcomer and this will officially be his first feature film. Now that Saw is hopefully wrapping up for good, it will be nice to see Twisted Pictures try something a little different -- with maybe the exception of the odd musical.

We've had the Dream Team, the Rat Pack, the Brat Pack and as Scott Weinberg rued last October, the Splat Pack. But has there ever been a group title for the guys behind-behind the scenes in film? I feel like we should come up with something for the crew of Saw. After wrapping Saw IV soon, a lot of the same crew will then move on to a new horror flick called Twisted, but that's not all. From there, they will move on to that horror Opera flick that Erik Davis mentioned way back in October -- Repo! The Genetic Opera. So, perhaps the Bloody Bunch? The Gang of Gore?

So this picture in the middle, Tortured, is a psychological revenge thriller from the pen of Marek Posival. This is his first penned feature (his lone other writing credit is a short from 2000 called Hold-Up), although he's done a lot of TV work as a line producer and assistant director. The film will be directed by Rob Lieberman, who has done a bunch of television work himself, and believe it or not, the last two features he helmed were Fire in the Sky and D3: The Mighty Ducks. Tortured is about an upper-middle-class couple whose life is destroyed when a pedophile kidnaps and kills their only child. Seething with revenge, they kidnap the killer. Although Variety says nothing else about the plot, I think the title probably says it all. And, considering the crew that will be working behind the scenes, my guess is that the torture will be very, very gory.