Thursday 29 February 2024

The Rotting Zombie's Round-up of Horror News for February 2024


Another month passed and another news round-up. I have just under an hour allocated to write this post, so hopefully it will be longer than last months round-up. In 'me' news, I have come up with a new plan for doing my blog, something I came up with while taking a rare week off of writing it. Elsewhere, I briefly lost the use of my PC, but discovered laptop blogging actually wasn't that bad, anyway, onto the news.

Bio Raiders is an Asian vampire horror film that has been released on Blu-ray in the US by BayView Entertainment. Directed by Tommy Leung and starring Luo Tian Chi, Siu-Ho Chin and Richard Ng, this Chinese language horror tells the story of a herbalist who accidentally transforms his sick daughter into a zombie, and so most prevent the world from finding out.


The Dead Follows is now available to rent/buy on Amazon Prime Video worldwide, again via BayView Entertainment. This is about two ghost-hunting detectives who get trapped in a haunted complex, and so must find a way to escape the horrors. This was directed by Victor Huesca and Jazmyne Nikole, also starring them, alongside Malcolm Alvarez.


Yet another BayView Entertainment release next, another Asian horror, this time the David Chuang directed The Tag Along: Devil Fish, which has been released on region free Blu-ray in the US. This one has a spirit medium who is charged with exorcising a demon from a possessed man. Two students inadvertently prevent this from happening when they capture the possessed man, hoping to make a documentary about what is happening.


Another Asian horror and another BayView Entertainment release, Vampire Cleanup Department is out now on region free Blu-ray in the US. In this one, a young recruit (Babyjohn Choi) to a secret vampire hunting group falls in love with one of the vampires he is tasked with killing.


Starring the iconic Bill Oberst Jr (The Man in Room 6, Devil's Junction: Handy Dandy's Revenge), 2009's Dismal sees a group of students heading out to a remote area of the Great Dismal Swamp as part of an extra credit assignment for a biology course. It is there that in the fashion of The Hills Have Eyes and Wrong Turn, they discover a group of cannibals. This releases March 26th from Bayview Entertainment.


It has turned into an unplanned Bayview Entertainment month as Aware of the Wolf is another one of theirs. Releasing later this year, this was directed by Joshua Nelson and stars Tony Murphy, Suzanne Johnson and Katie Raulerson. Terry is a life coach for the more nervous and timid of those in society, however, his methods are able to unleash the 'wolf' hidden deep inside of them.


Freestyle Digital Media have acquired the documentary, Shadows in the Desert: High Strangeness in the Borrego Triangle. Due to be released on North American VOD platforms and DVD on March 5th, this feature length paranormal documentary follows Derek Hayes and David Flora as they head to the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park that is notorious for reports of cryptids, ghosts and UFOs.


Finally for today, Bloody Summer Camp 2: Red Horizon has launched a crowd funding campaign on Indiegogo which has already exceeded its goal. This comes from Slasher 15 Productions and as the title suggests is a sequel to their 80's slasher throwback, Bloody Summer Camp. This sequel is due to take place in 1994 and will bring back several members of the original cast, including Felissa Rose (Camp Twilight, Sleepaway Camp) in a film that sees Camp Holiday Trails re-opened after the massacre of the first movie and rebranded as Red Horizon. Check out the Indiegogo page here.

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