It is October, the scariest month of the year. I do love this month, though watching horror all year around it isn't really too different. Still, the day this post goes up I am doing my second annual
Halloween watch, with my dad and sister coming around for the delights of
Halloween II. I have been playing a bunch of horror titles, the biomechanical body horror puzzle game
Scorn, the Western themed rogue-like
West of Dead, creepy card game
Inscryption, and
Layers of Fear VR (so far not much better than the non-VR version). With an hour time limit to write this, onto the news!
There is a trailer for Mahal Empire's newest film, Devil's Knight. This is directed by Adam Werth and stars Kevin Sorbo (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys), Isabelle Urganci (Bermuda Island), and Eric Roberts (The Pope of Greenwich Village). Taking place in the medieval world of Veroka, a King hires an elite group of monster hunters in order to track down and kill 'The Bone Devil'.
Goth-pop artist Metamorph has released a new full-length album, Kiss of the Witch which tells a gothic love story, with the press release stating 'Each song is a witchy world unto itself; sexy, romantic, intimate, with layers of symbolization'. The album was written and created by Margot Day and produced by Erik Gustafson.
October 4th saw the release on Blu-ray of Sam Mason Bell's Home is Where I Lay. This stars Jackson Batchelor and Annabella Rich and is about a woman who has a premonition of her death the night before her and her partner move into a new home.
A new EP has been released from electro-industrial band, Krate. It's The Hope That Kills You is a five track EP that has a general theme of hopelessness. As the press release states 'No matter how hard you try, in the end nothing else matters as all matter is destined to die'. This cheery sounding EP can be purchased from digital platforms, including Bandcamp.
Compendium of the Unmasked: The Hollow Raven is an upcoming graphic novel, 140 pages split over six books. This is a character driven horror story, the press release says it bridges multiple genres including mystery, crime-thriller, action, sci-fi, supernatural and psychological ones. It goes for a steampunk aesthetic. The plot follows the citizens of 'the lost lands' who find themselves stalked by Watchers during daytime, and hunted by creatures at night. There is a successful
Indiegogo campaign currently running, which can be found
here.
A ten year anniversary cut of Gregory Blair's
Deadly Revisions has a release date of December 13th. Blair said of this new cut "
I was itching to make little tweaks to the film, so I was thrilled to finally be able to do that". This stars horror icon Bill Oberst Jr (
DIS,
Zburbs) as an amnesiac horror film writer whose hypnotherapy and nightmares reveal troubling images that shouldn't be real.
Semi-open world video game
Somber is now available on
Steam. Developed by
You Will Get There, this has the player assuming the role of a friendly creature fighting for justice. For this one the press release states '
Somber is what would happen if Tim Burton developed Limbo but included the game mechanics from the Ori series'.
Dark Tales from Channel X is a horror anthology that has been released on DVD via Bayview Entertainment. Starring Michelle Nunez, Angie Hansen and Sarah Schoofs, this is about a babysitter who finds herself in the world of 'The Viewer' who broadcasts seven stories of horror. I love anthologies, hopefully this one is one of the better ones.
Finally, news of Adam Werth's Bermuda Island. This one stars Tom Sizemore (Natural Born Killers), Greg Tally (Camp Pleasant Lake), John Wells (Arena Wars), and Noel Gugliemi (Training Day) and is about a plane crash that strands the survivors on a deserted island, with them discovering surviving the elements may be the least of their worries. This is due to release January 2023.