Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

Red Cape Publishing will soon be releasing Elements of Horror – Book Four: Water on 3rd December, which will be the fourth and final book in the horror anthology series based around themes of the four elements. Within these pages you will find a variety of stories from some of the best independent horror writers on the scene today. Immerse yourself in tales of shipwrecks, evil spirits, terrifying aquatic creatures, and much more. You can pre-order Elements of Horror – Book Four: Water on Kindle for a pre-sale price of just 99p UK ($1.22 US) here: The first…

MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN **** USA 1992 Dir: John Carpenter. 99 mins A financial flop at the time, this adaptation of H.F. Saint’s novel about the loneliness of invisibility was a pet project for Chevy Chase who, wanting more serious roles, agreed to do NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION for Warner Bros. if they financed it. Chase went through various directors (and scripting disputes) before it became Carpenter’s first major studio picture since BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA – unusually without his name above the title and with the score by another composer (the excellent Shirley Walker). It’s a San…

PATINA *** USA 2019 Dir: Alan Maxson. 11 mins Writer-director Alan Maxson also takes the lead role in this engaging, creepy technophobic sci-fi horror short. Matt Kelly has just accrued a humanoid robot named Patina (“Pat for short”) who “lives to serve”, is constructed around an advanced A.I. system and cannot be rebooted. His girlfriend (Annabel Barrett) is quickly creeped out by its weird grin and is terrorised while Kelly is at work. Maxon’s portrait of the besuited, Cenobite-esque Patina is impressive (among other things, the actor did the performance capture work for King Ghidorah in the recent GODZILLA: KING…

DON’T LOOK *** USA 2018 Dir: Luciana Faulhaber. 71 mins Do you like boobs? Do you like blood? Do you like boobs covered in blood, spilled guts, furry(ish?) sex, giant men in baby masks, and Dollywood? Then do I have a movie for you. Lorena (Luciana Faulhaber, who also directed), Nicole (Lindsay Eshelman), Sebastian (Javier E. Gomez), Ted (Jeff Berg), and Alex (Curtis K. Case) head out to the nicest run down cabin ever (I mean, seriously, it’s so nice it almost takes you out of the story) for a drunken weekend away. After getting spooked by super sexual hillbillies…

TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID ***** Mexico 2017 Dir: Issa Lopez. 83 mins Writer-director Issa Lopez’s fourth feature film is an extraordinary story of childhood and the need for childish escapism – for both its juvenile protagonists…and us, the adult audience. A sobering opening stat hammers home the harsh reality that the story never shirks: 160,000 people have been killed in Mexico’s drug wars in the last decade. The opening sequence encapsulates the tone of everything that follows: schoolkids create their own fairy tales in class before external, close-by gunshots send them cowering under their desks while their teacher tries to…