The Rotting Zombie's News Anthology for Friday the 13th 2023

Well, I couldn't not do a blog post on such a day as Friday the 13th! Sadly, I have no news on that iconic (and mostly terrible) franchise, but I do have some fresh choice cuts from my news animal.
Starting with news of the trailer for upcoming Evil Dead horror film, Evil Dead Rise. This sounds like it is going to be standalone (possibly a quasi-sequel to the last one), certainly isn't going to include the legendary Bruce Campbell, but that doesn't temper my excitement. Admittedly 2013's Evil Dead didn't make much of an impression, but at least it tried to be its own thing, rather than a straight remake. With Evil Dead Rise, the action has moved to an inner city apartment block, very The Grudge 3, but I'm more than excited to go see this, and judging by the trailer it will keep the straight horror that the remake went for.

With music news now, The Hate Club is a Ukrainian metal band from Kyiv, who are now based in Los Angeles. While they are currently working on their debut album, they released an official music video for their track Burn in Hell towards the end of last year. The video is animated and is a follow up to the music video for their track My Name is Legion from their Death of the Protagonist EP. It takes place in a demonic wasteland where humans are fighting back against the monstrous invaders. Evan Streb who did the animation stated 'For inspiration I turned to 40K, Oddworld and Fury Road to fill in the details and bring it to life, importantly including a lot of references to the weapons the Ukrainians are using to defend themselves...'.

Ravage Nation is out now (I believe) on DVD and Blu-ray and is the latest entry in the Ravage series. Written and directed by Michael Moutsatsos, this sounds like it takes place in a near future post apocalyptic world in which a virus has mutated much of humanity into zombie-like creatures and hybrid creatures. A world where these mutants hunted the humans survivors for sport. It stars Jake Scozzaro, Ed Gage, Steven Natale and Joshua Salazar Fallat. The trailer can be viewed on Vimeo.

Finally for this edition, American Cannibals comes to Blu-ray on January 31st from Vipco and Bayview Entertainment. Described in the press release as 'Part movie, part documentary, REAL modern-day vampires', this tells the story of an amateur documentary crew who set out to make an expose on 'real' modern day vampires.