The Rotting Zombie's News Anthology - Halloween Edition

You would figure I would have something special lined up for Halloween, well, you would be wrong. Instead I have a news post. I guess in personal news, I went to a horror themed pub-quiz last week and trounced the opposition, coming out over twenty points ahead of the next closest team. That was a fun quiz! Then in my day job I unexpectedly came second in the Halloween costume event with my 'Shaun' from Shaun of the Dead, winning some Halloween themed flowers and an award, very embarrassing. Last night my sister and father visited my home for the second year of our annual Halloween viewing. Last year was the original and best, Halloween, with Halloween II this year's one, obviously. I did warn my family that it was all downhill after the first, personally I love nearly all of them, but they get trashier.
Before I get on with the news, I implore you to play the horror themed rogue-like card video game Inscryption. Everyone I have spoken to about this have never heard of it. It's an unsettling mishmash of styles that includes retro 8-bit sections, torture-porn and even some FMV found footage. Even if the thought of card-based gameplay doesn't sound like your thing, still check it out, personally I have never had any interest in card based video games, yet am totally addicted to this one.

Victim of Love is a new horror from Indican Pictures. Charly is on the search for his missing girlfriend, who went missing while on holiday in Copenhagen. Heading to the hotel where she was staying, he encounters a strange woman, Felicija, who leads him to something that, as the press releases states '...becomes a phantasmagorical nightmare'. This can be purchased from the Indican Pictures website, here.

A novelisation of Hex Studios' memorably creepy Lord of Tears has been published from Hex Arcana. This is adapted from Sarah Daly's original screenplay by Sean Hogan (England's Screaming, Deathline). The story follows the events of the film, with James Findley returning to his remote childhood home in the Scottish Highlands in order to try and find the cause of the recurring nightmares and visions he has of an owl-headed figure.
Lord of Tears is the second release in the publisher's eighties influenced horror series, following on from a reprint of Sarban's dystopian novel The Sound of His Horn. Lord of Tears currently has a Kickstarter campaign running where it can be pre-ordered.

Finally for this most spooky of days, the November releases for the Arrow streaming subscription service have been revealed. These include the great French zombie film, The Grapes of Death, and the not so great soft-porn/horror film Zombie Lake. The big release for the month is from Quentin Dupieux (Rubber, Deerskin), Incredible But True. This surreal comedy sees a husband and wife discovering a mysterious secret hidden in the basement of their new home.
Volume 2 of Shawscope brings together a collection of the best films from the Shaw Brothers studio's final years, these martial art films include The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, My Young Auntie, Mercenaries from Hong Kong, and The Boxer's Omen.