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'The Ring' producer now delivering content to haunt your iPhone

Horror movies are about to haunt a lot closer to home. As close as your mobile device.In an effort to keep up with today's ever-changing entertainment landscape, award-winning independent producer Neal Edelstein has formed Hooked Digital Media, to bring the horror genre specifically to tablet and mobile devices with some scary new twists."I come from making movies, I love movies, I love the cinema and storytelling in general," Edelstein, whose past horror hits include "The Ring," "The Ring Two," "Mulholland Drive," and "The Straight Story," told FOX411's Pop Tarts column. "I have had my eyes on the new technology, but could never get behind the webisode concept. It didn't inspire me. But when I got the iPad things changed… I wanted to tell a ghost story on the iPhone or iPad, what I did not want to do is take a movie or script that I had already and try to jam it into an application and say, 'this is like Netflix.' I wanted t reinvent the way stories are told and consumed."And thus the...

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