Trees provide shade, shelter, and sunny summer day memories for children who play among them, but one tree's gnarled bark and leafy branches harbor sinister intentions for a boy and his family in James Crow's Curse of the Witching Tree, which hits home media this May and is teased in a new trailer.

Synopsis: "An innocent woman, accused of murdering her son and hanged as a witch, curses a tree and the children who play around it. The effects of this act of revenge echo through the years and centuries, and restless spirits haunt the house where the bodies of the cursed children have been buried. A family move into their new home, and begin to uncover the terrible truth behind The Witching Tree and the murdered children upon which they unknowingly sleep..."

Cast: "Sarah Rose Denton, Lucy Clarvis, Lawrence Weller, Jon Campling, Danielle Bux, Caroline Boulton, Lydia Breden-Thorpe, Shane Green, Liam Ponder, Charlie Bond, Lorraine Gray, Dean Maskell, Viv Bonney, James Sibley, Alexandra Lawes."

Written, produced, and directed by James Crow, Curse of the Witching Tree comes out on DVD in the US on May 19th and in the UK on May 18th.

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    About the Author - Derek Anderson

    Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.

    When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.