Thursday 11 July 2024

The Rotting Zombie's News Anthology for 11th July 2024


Last week I was away on my annual holiday with my father, this year heading to the beaches of Normandy for a tour of the battlefields from World War II. Not horror related (not fake horror anyway) so I won't be including any of that here. As a result however I am a bit behind, having taken a week off for the trip. I have a load of screeners waiting to be watched for review so will try and get through those as quick as my day job will allow me. Onwards to the news...

VIPCO and Bayview Entertainment are to release a documentary called God vs. UFOs on AVOD digital platforms on 27th August 2024, with it out on digital platforms now. This looks at the possible origins and nature of UFOs. The doc looks into if these sightings could be natural occurrences, scientific creations or even if they are evidence of spiritual apparitions. Directed by Mark Christopher, this includes a host of experts including retired UK Ministry of Defence official Nick Pope (Ancient Aliens), Demonologist Ian Broadmore and the curator of the Great British UFO Learning Centre, John Hanson among others.


A new feature film in the classic The Return of the Living Dead series is going to be created, titled Trash's Revenge. Produced by and starring Linnea Quigley and Beverly Randolph, who star alongside original cast members Thom Matthews, John Philbin and Miguel Nunez, with original soundtrack composer Francis Haines also returning. There is no word on the story yet, but with all of the returning actor's original characters dead (spoiler for the 1985 movie!) it will be interesting to see if this is a re-telling of that story, or be set in an alternate timeline in which they all survived the night of the talking dead. An Indiegogo campaign is due to start on Friday July 19th. I do love that zombie series so really hope this is successful in getting made.
For a time the Indiegogo page was down, it turns out this was because Dragon Studios (the company producing Trash's Revenge) discovered that Living Dead Media had been illegitimately claiming copyright ownership for the past decade over the Return of the Living Dead brand, so legal stuff had to happen behind the scenes. With the page now restored I'm assuming progress is being made on that side of things. You can head to the page (here) to sign up for an email update for when the campaign goes live.

Finally for today, The Omicron Killer has been released by Bayview Entertainment, LLC on digital platforms worldwide, with it coming to AVOD digital platforms on 27th August 2024. This comes from director Jeff Knite and stars Bai Long (Necronomicon), Felissa Rose (Camp Twilight) and Lynn Lowry (There's No Such Thing as Zombies). The brief synopsis states a copycat serial killer is on the loose, determined to be even more deadly than the person they modelled themselves on.

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