Thursday 28 December 2023

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


Christmas has been and gone and we are swiftly approaching the end of another year. I will do my best to include the meat of my news sack for your news reading pleasure. In 'me' news I am playing Dead by Daylight as much as able at the mo 
ment. Each month I am picking a different killer to spend the month playing as. Not being very good at the game, my success is very mixed! On to the news.

First up, the official trailer for Killing Ariel. Directed by Fred Calvert and David J. Negron Jr, and starring Michael Brainard, Axelle Grelet, Joseph Gatt, Lindsley Allen, Suzete Belouin and Shana Betz, this is coming in 2024 from Bayview Entertainment. The story has a female demon attacking a married man, turning his life into 'a nightmare of madness'.


The Guerrilla Metropolitana directed Dariuss is now available on Blu-ray from SRS Cinema. Described as 'highly psychedelic and ultra realistic at the same time', this arthouse extreme horror film is based around a dysfunctional middle-class family traumatised from the loss of a young girl. Including visual and sonic subliminal messages, scenes of cannibalism, necrophilia, incest, masturbation, and rape, this film certainly isn't for everyone! The Blu-ray can be ordered here.

Apparently, Aberrance is the first Mongolian horror to be released theatrically in the U.S. It has its North American digital debut on VOD platforms and DVD on January 16th 2024. City dwellers Erkhmee and Selenge head to an old cabin deep in the Mongolian wilds, with a neighbour observing Erkhmee's bizarre behaviour. This was directed by Baatar Batsukh and features a Mongolian ensemble cast.


Abaddon's Pit is a sci-fi thriller directed by Jason Egan and Matthew Nash, due in 2024 by Bayview Entertainment. It has an interesting premise, a grieving widow moves to a remote abandoned family farm to recover. While there he discovers a seemingly bottomless pit that 'changes everything that enters it'.


River of Ghosts is a psychological fantasy thriller coming to North American VOD platforms and DVD on January 9th 2024 via Freestyle Digital Media. This is about a small town hypnotherapist who gets involved in a case regarding an incident that took place at a river. Written, directed, and co-produced by Jules East, the cast includes Conner Floyd, Scot Cooper, and Alena Savostikova.


News of another horror anthology film next. Return to the Theatre of Terror is made up of four short horror and sci-fi films, 'Soothsayer', 'Splinter', 'Haunted', and 'Robot', with The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits said to be the key influences. This new anthology can be pre-ordered here.


An official poster and teaser trailer for Finding 66 has been released. This horror, coming from John Roberts and Wolf Krusemark at Creative Kill Productions, has the fun tagline of 'F*ck Around And Find Out'. It is a found footage horror, detailing the abduction of a woman on the iconic Route 66 road from Texas to New Mexico.

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