Tuesday, 29 April 2025

The Rotting Zombie's Round-up of Horror News for April 2025


It is another month as I am often fond of saying. My personal life has somewhat calmed down a bit, with me not having to travel to Oxfordshire every weekend. I have managed to really mess up my back however, I put it down to getting old, but has been over a week now and it is still torture, fun times! Onto the news.

Room Six is an upcoming feature film that is set for a Digital Debut release on North America VOD platforms and DVD on May 2nd 2025. This horror thriller is about a college student named Maxx who is working the night shift at a remote rural motel during summer. After the arrival of two strange brothers coinciding with some suspicious incidents, Maxx decides to check out the brothers' room, and is horrified by what she discovers. Co-written and co-directed by Hobart Miller and Michael Panico, the cast includes Sophia Echendu as Maxx, and Mickey O'Sullivan and Jack Ball as the two brothers.


Coming from writer/director Joe Leone, and starring Remiara Eve, Adrienne Laurén and Robert J. Morgalo, is the very indie looking Greet Your Demons. This award winning movie (Best International Feature at Thilsri International Film Festival and the Athvikaruni International Film Festival) is about a comatose girl who has to mentally and literally battle her personal demons in order to be able to wake up. Greet Your Demons is out on Digital Platforms, including to rent/buy on Amazon Prime Video.


Dystopian action film Special Needs Revolt! is out now on Amazon. Directed by Adrian Esposito, this is about a man with Down syndrome (Nolan Tierce - Clowns in the Woods) who wakes up from a two year coma only to discover the US has been turned into a brutal dictatorship thanks to President Trump...checks notes...thanks to President Kruger (Bill Weedon). He leads a group of social outcasts to try and overthrow the dictator. The cast include many actors with disabilities.


Classic silent horror film Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde was been released by BayView Entertainment LLC with a brand new score by Michael Richard Plowman, it is out on Digital Platforms worldwide. The classic directed by John S. Robertson also has a restored picture.


Dracula Eternal is an upcoming vampire film that features Mike Ferguson (Beyond the Flood), Cody Renee Cameron (The Mayans), LeeAnne Bauer (When It Rains in LA) and Denise Milfort (Dead on Arrival). After a woman's best friend falls ill and her fiancé vanishes, she gets caught up in a battle against ancient evil.


The Transparent Woman is a horror film that comes from BayView Entertainment LLC. It is available to rent/buy on Amazon Prime Video in the USA and Canada. Directed by Domiziano Cristopharo, this tells the story of blind woman, Anna, who moves with her husband to his rural childhood home. While alone during the day, Anna begins to suspect someone or something is in the house with her.


Feral Female is a horror comedy that is written, directed and starring Jared Masters (Slink). In LA's Griffith Park lurks a deranged killer; Ebba (Kate Ly Johnston), a woman raised by wolves. A big game hunter (Masters) is called in to deal with the menace. The film comes out later this year.


Finally for this month's round-up is Italian horror Scarrafone, which is out to rent/buy now on Amazon Prime Video in the UK, USA, Canada, and Mexico. Starring award winning actor Sebastiano Pigazzi (And Just Like That...), this is about a woman named Agnese who lives an isolated life in the middle of nowhere, and who happens to have a strange guest locked up in her house.

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