The Rotting Zombie's News Anthology for Thursday 25th May

I am writing this on May 19th, the day of my best friend's birthday, so I'm in a good mood. Also, I need to stop flip-flopping between U.S and U.K date structures as I am quite random which way I go when writing dates. Onto the news...

Ghost is an iconic film starring the late Patrick Swayze, as a child, my mother would forever convince me to watch it without complaint due to the promise of the scene towards the end when the demon things do their thing to the guy's murderer. Ghost is also the name of a new horror that is coming to POV Horror and Wicked Horror TV on July 9th. This one is directed by Dillon Brown and is about a twisted cult who aim to weaponize demonic entities, with the only prevention being a group of church sanctioned mercenaries. Interestingly, this is described as a found-footage action/horror, whose roots are to be found in eighties movies. Ghost stars Michael Rock, Amanda Morgan, Joshua Myron McKinney and Vernon G. Wells (Mad Max 2), check out the nifty trailer below.

The poster has been revealed for Hex Studio's latest project, the 80's sword & sorcery throwback horror, The Slave & The Sorcerer. Inspired by classic films such as Deathstalker and The Beastmaster, this tells the tale of slave Tyrol, who volunteers to lead a mission to the dungeon lair of the evil wizard Akaris, in order to rescue a kidnapped Princess. This stars Chris Black, Jonathan Hansler (The Devil's Business), Briony Monroe (The Black Gloves), Megan Tremethick (Ghost Crew), Richard Pate (The Black Gloves), Chris Capaldi (The Necromancer), Stephen Kerr (For We Are Many), as well as rugby star Dean Schofield in his first feature role. The movie, which the press release states is like 'Deathstalker meets The Evil Dead' is due for release in winter 2023, there is also a Kickstarter currently running, which can be found here.

Finally for today, found footage horror The Woodmen is a collaboration between 105ive Films and Gray Sky Pictures, with shooting to begin in June in Georgia, and to be written and directed by Joshua Brucker. Not much more is revealed at the moment, other than it is set to feature Nancy Anne Ridder and Leonora Scelfo from the Scream franchise, as well as LC Holt (VHS 2, You're Next).