By Ben Bussey
Hopefully by now you’re well aware of James Sizemore, multi-talented filmmaker behind the highly recommended low budget monster movie The Demon’s Rook, which came to VOD and iTunes in the US earlier this week. Regardless of whether you’ve been fortunate enough to see that gore-soaked, latex-heavy demonic horror extravaganza and have been left eager for more, or if you haven’t had the pleasure and would like some sense of what’s in store, here’s something you might want to take a look at: the latest work of Sizemore and the Black Rider team, twelve minutes of black magic merriment entitled Goat Witch, which just premiered online courtesy of Fangoria.
While it isn’t exactly a continuation of The Demon’s Rook, it’s certainly a tale which seems to take place in the same universe, delving into the same mythos (not to mention the original language, devised by lead actress Ashleigh Jo Sizemore herself) which James Sizemore spoke of in his interview with us recently. With all its flaming torches, ominous music, naked women and goatiness, there’s maybe more than an echo of Rob Zombie’s Lords of Salem here too – but with that same brightly-coloured 80s vibe which so helped bring The Demon’s Rook to life.
Check it out, and join us in asking the Old Ones to help Sizemore get his second feature off the ground sooner rather than later. (Oh, and as you might have gathered from the mention of naked ladies and gore, this is most certainly NSFW.)
And don’t forget to read our review of The Demon’s Rook.