Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

FLESH MEAT DOLL(S) * USA 2016 Dir: C. Huston. 8 mins En-route to the hardcore endurance test PORTRAITS OF ANDREA PALMER, C.Huston made this much shorter hardcore endurance test. You will know within about 30 seconds whether or not this will be your bag, as the movie immediately delivers gory vaginal close-ups and the kind of in-your-face male and female nudity designed to repel rather than arouse. A naked, unnamed male character wanks over a fresh female corpse, goes down on her, fucks her, cums / pisses on her, mutilates her and then disembowels her so he can fuck her…

AMERICAN KILLING (a.k.a. Wichita) * USA 2016 Dir: Matthew Ward & Justyn Ah Chong. 85mins “Don’t try too hard to impress people” seems to be the watchword of this 2019 offering from the USA and High Octane productions. High octane it is not and the tortured writer Jeb really screws himself over in his attempts to impress his pushy screenplay producer. The movie starts off slowly and never really picks up pace or shocks with a set of friends who come across as very disjointed people in a storyline that is very low on thrills. Jeb is using his friends…

2020 sees Grimmfest reaching the dirty dozen: Twelve years at the cutting edge of genre film. And to celebrate, next year’s festival will be bigger, bolder, and bloodier than ever – running from the evening of Wednesday 7th October 2020 through to the evening of Sunday 11th October 2020 at Odeon Great Northern in Manchester UK. Hell has expanded itself: the festival will now run for five days, to cram in even more amazing genre content. The Grimmfest team is also excited to announce the first confirmed guest. Mick Garris has been at the heart of the horror genre since…

What would you do if you only had 8 DAYS left to live? A meteorite is on a collision course with Earth. The chances to survive in Central Europe: Zero. This colossally ambitious German series explores the answer to this impossible question through the eyes of an ordinary Berlin family living through the last days of mankind as we know it. Showing on Sky Atlantic, the series arrives on DVD and digital 6th January from Acorn Media International. Each episode of this eight-parter brings us one day closer to annihilation. The impending catastrophe sets in motion the reorganisation of society…

SANTA’S SLAY *** USA 2005 Dir: David Steiman. 78 mins SANTA’S SLAY aims low in terms of humour – there are characters named Dick, Bush and Caulk (pronounced “Cock”) – but can be forgiven for anything because it opens with one of the great festive horror sequences. The scene occurs pre-titles and involves Jewish wrestler Bill Goldberg as an evil Santa (actually the Son of Satan via Immaculate Conception!) interrupting a miserable Christmas family dinner by announcing “Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus!” and murdering a succession of guest stars. Fran Drescher gets her head set on fire, Rebecca…