Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

Jackhammer Entertainment is pleased to announce the Indiegogo crowdfunding pre-launch of the campaign to produce the forthcoming original sci-fi/horror graphic novel, INVASION NANO SAPIENS, created and written by screenwriter/designer Corky Arnold, (www.jackhammer.cc) and graphic novel artist Ian J. Miller (www.ianjmiller.com). The pre-launch campaign is at: https://igg.me/at/Invasion-Nano-Sapiens-Graphic-Novel INVASION NANO SAPIENS tells the story of a young, maverick scientist, Fulton Bengis, who creates experimental blood with living nano robotic red and white blood cells and platelets that can improve body functions and kill disease. But when his love, Alison Wintergreen, injects the blood without his knowledge to eradicate her terminal…

ASSIMILATE **** USA 2019 Dir: John Murlowski. 93 mins Jack Finney’s evergreen paranoia classic “The Body Snatchers” tends to get a Hollywood reinterpretation every two decades or so and the era of Trump and fake news feels like the most apt backdrop for the story since the McCarthy-era emergence of Don Siegel’s 1956 original. Recycling familiar beats from earlier BODYSNATCHERS movies while adding a video blog narrative device and protagonists struggling to prove video evidence is “real”, this is a fast-paced, teen-pitched variation on the theme. Likeable Joel Courtney and Calum Worthy’s spy-cam web series dedicated to showing the people…

Filmmaker Jeff Payne announces IN DARKNESS I WAIT, the third installment of THE PALE FACED LADY short film series. “The first Pale Faced Lady was mostly narrative driven, giving you some visuals with the story and creating the dark atmospheres throughout. The second “She Will Return” went into the ghosts origins and dealt with the regret of bad decisions creating more of a suspenseful theme. I’m wanting to make part three a rollercoaster ride of tension and scares. In Darkness I Wait will be centered around two characters who go into the house to try and burn it down.…

12 DEATHS OF CHRISTMAS (a.k.a. Mother Krampus) *** U.K. 2017 Dir: James Klass. 90 mins Another Christmas horror enters the fold and with it a few surprising twists and turns can be expected. Opening with a narration of the eastern European story of Frau Perchta we are told that in the 12 days leading up to Christmas in 1921 several children disappeared. One girl was later found but unable to speak of her torment she later died. In 1992, 5 children disappeared in the lead up to Christmas and later found in the woods with their throats slit. The towns…

A GOOD WOMAN IS HARD TO FIND ***** UK / Ireland / Belgium 2019 Dir: Abner Pastoll. 97 mins “If you want to get anywhere in this life you have to be a bitch”. So advises tough but loyal mother Jane Brennan to her recently widowed daughter (Sarah Bolger) early on in Abner Pastoll’s exceptional thriller. In an unspecified modern Irish city where everything seems a little lost despite a new political “hope”, Bolger’s grief for a man dismissed by the media and police as a drug dealer runs parallel to her financial woes (and related, routine humiliations at the…