I'm not sure how much you should hate Hardwicke, Lindy. She did also make "Lords of Dogtown" and "Thirteen". The latter was pretty damn good. And if she's a sellout in Hollywood for making the (Mormon) vampire movies, so what. At least she's a female sellout and there are like nooo women directors in that town.
I would totally do Catherine H.
That's not to say I'm not intrigued by this movie's seeming strangeness, but Freeway can probably not be topped.