The Rotting Zombie's Round-up of Horror News for February 2023

Another month done and dusted, so onto the monthly news round-up. Voidcaller is a Lovecraftian themed Swedish horror film from Nils Alatalo that was filmed last year and is currently being edited. Recently a Kickstarter campaign was created in order to fund the post-production. The story sees a woman named Anna who wakes up one day to find she has no memory of the last month, but as she slowly begins to piece back these memories she begins to suspect that she has had something to do with the summoning of a cosmic horror. For more details check out the Kickstarter here.

F'd: Tales from the End Times is an upcoming horror anthology that uses the apocalypse as the basis for the theme. Confirmed directors are Ash Hamilton (Holes in the Sky: The Sean Miller Story), Dillon Brown (The Flock) and Josh Brucker (Mothman). Each of the short films is said to take place on the day the world ends. Remaining directors are yet to be finalised, and the film is set to begin filming later this year.

Synapse Films have released Dario Argento's eighties classic Phenomena on 4K UHD. This stars Jennifer Connelly as Jennifer, a sleepwalking teen who has the ability to communicate with bugs telepathically. After a series of vicious murders, the girl teams up with entomologist Dr. McGregor (Donald Pleasence - Halloween series) and his chimpanzee in order to somehow solve them. The two-disc special edition includes the original Italian version (116 minutes), the International cut (110 minutes) and the U.S 'Creepers' cut (83 minutes). There are also two commentary tracks, a feature length documentary about the film's creation, among plenty of other extras.

The Pyramid (not to be confused with The Pyramid) has recently been released on DVD from Bayview Entertainment. This is an anthology horror with its interconnected theme being a pyramid '...that comes into the world to spread madness, death and destruction'. The four short films were all filmed around Italy

YouTube channel Kings of Horror are going to be releasing award winning horror shorts, Mindful Meditation (Best Horror at the New Creators Awards) and Science of a Seance (Best Director), both coming from filmmakers Monica La Vella and Louie La Vella, and both of these were filmed on an iPhone.

Arachnicide is now available from Acort International. This one is about a special task force who fresh after a successful operation against a drug operation find themselves called to Albania where judging from the poster they battle giant spiders.

American Horrors is a new 24/7 linear streaming horror Roku channel. The press release states '...featuring uncut critically acclaimed bleeding edge short horror films, bloody cult feature films, exclusive in-house generated tv series, banned tv commercials from yesteryear, uncensored music videos...' This can be watched on the American Horrors website here, or on the Roku channel, here.

Finally, an email that I received with little details, the release in full 'This is the time you need to give something new and different a chance! Trippy the Clown will make you laugh and also creep you out!' For more details about what seems to be a little metal music obsessed killer clown doll, check out the website here.