The Rotting Zombie's News Anthology for Thursday 19th June 2025

Here in the UK it is quite a humid June we are having, with the constant threat of a rain shower that never seems to come. I'm determined to actually get five blog posts written this weekend (at time of typing), as I have been getting lazy and my screeners to watch pile has been increasing! Onwards to the news.

I hadn't even realised it was out, but the Watts Brothers are working on a sequel to their unique found footage movie Black Daruma. This always stuck out to me, as the film was apparently shown from the perspective of a cursed Japanese Daruma doll! The sequel, titled Red Daruma, is due to hit screens later this year. Of this sequel, Toby Watts stated:
"The whole idea of there being other cursed Daruma dolls out there and some kind of link between them all really excites us. We've got an amazing location for this one and can't wait to bring it to the screen for the fans to enjoy."

Tonight She Comes is now available to stream on MoviVue. Two friends lost in woodland encounter a naked girl possessed by an evil spirit, as well as a backwoods Satan worshipping family of psychos. This comes from director Matt Stuertz and stars Nathan Eswine, Larissa White, and Jenna McDonald.

Finally for today, a trailer has been released for first-time filmmaker Mark A. Williams' feature length supernatural slasher Mary's Lake. This often repeated story sees a group of camp counsellors who find themselves being hunted by a recently escaped mental institution patient, one who also carries a supernatural force within him. The film promises to pay homage to classic camp slasher movies, done in a respectful way. Mary's Lake was an official selection at both the Crimson Screen Horror Film Festival and the Moonless International Film Festival in 2025.