Monday 30 January 2023

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


I haven't been sleeping well lately so I'm going to try and just get straight into the news due to being quite tired. My last blog post for the week, so once this is done I'm home free! Because it is a zombie film, comedy horror Mike & Fred Vs. The Dead is getting top billing this month. The film comes from Anthony Leone and is about two stoners whose simple favour of picking up Mike's grandfather results in them caught up in an unfolding nationwide zombie outbreak. The cast includes Amy Cay (Quarantine Chronicles), Brian Patrick Butler, George Jac and Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp) and is due for an August release.

 

Dick Reno: Monster Slayer is a horror comedy from ThunderKnight Entertainment that is currently in production. This is about the titular monster slayer who finds himself on a mission to defeat the evil vampire Count Moldark. Included among the cast are Richard Tyson (Kindergarten Cop), Vernon Wells (Mad Max 2), Harley Wallen (Ash and Bone), Dawna Lee Heising (The Paradise Hotel), Jimmy Drain (The Dead Rose), Erika Monet (Realm of Shadows), and Lindsey Kells (The Initiation).


I mentioned this last month, and now Scream VI has an official trailer out. Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, this latest entry moves the killings to New York after four survivors of the last movie head there hoping for a new start. Series regulars such as Courteney Cox are joined by a new cast which includes among them Samara Weaving, Jack Champion, Henry Czerny, Liana Liberato and Dermot Mulroney. Scream VI comes to cinemas March 10th.


The Dark Room is a new psychological horror thriller that currently has an Indiegogo campaign running to raise funds. It comes from directors Jake C. Young and Kenny Scott Guffey, whose previous film A Night of the Undead is due to be released by Bayview Entertainment. The story sees an amateur photographer who finds something troubling in the photos he was sent to develop by a pastor, something related to a series of disturbing decapitations in the area. Actor and musician Trevor Lissauer (Sabrina The Teenage Witch, La La Land, American Vampire) has been confirmed to be among the cast. For more details check out the campaign here, currently it has raised £592 of its £3,231 goal with nineteen days to go.


It turns out my culling of my news inbox has resulted in me hitting the bottom of it sooner than expected, and so the following will be the final bit of news from me for January. An official trailer has been released for the alien abduction sci-fi film Static Codes. I included a trailer for the film in a post back from October, but looks like this one may be different. The film follows a paralysed man who is convinced his wife was abducted ten years ago during a car accident, and so is obsessed with finding her.

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