Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

Founder and Editor in Chief of Horror Screams Video Vault

In the summer of 2007 a group of emerging filmmakers and actors set out into the Scottish wilderness to make a low budget horror film in homage to the low budget American horror films of the 1970s. The grizzly slasher titled The Bench has never been completed, until now. Inspired by Tobe Hooper’s original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), this team of filmmakers led by writer / director Sean Wilkie (Matter of Time) used the HD revolution to their advantage, shooting the film on HDV tape lends a quality that’s been absent from cinema since 16mm celluloid went out of fashion some decades earlier,…

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Vertigo Releasing have released the horror thriller, New Life, which is out now in the UK on all major Digital Platforms including to rent/buy on Amazon Prime Video. Written and directed by feature length debutant, John Rosman, New Life stars Sonya Walger (For All Mankind, Lost), Hayley Erin (Pretty Little Liars: Perfectionists & General Hospital) and Tony Amendola (Rebel Moon Pt I, Annabelle). Jess is a woman on the run, desperate to cross the Canadian border toescape her past. On her tail is Elsa, a resourceful agent, whose recent life-altering diagnosis leaves her one step behind. As their chase narrows to the mountains…

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Arrow Video are proud to release the VOD premiere of the French macabre horror Pandemonium, the latest feature from filmmaker Quarxx (All the Gods in the Sky). The film made its world premiere at Neuchâtel and went on to screen at Fantasia, Frightfest, Fantasy FilmFest, Sitges, Grimmfest, Trieste and Screamfest and you can see it at home on ARROW with a host of brand new extras! Pandemonium is available now on all major VOD platforms, include Apple TV and Prime Video. Director Quarxx (All the Gods in the Sky) explores the peculiar, welcoming all those hungry for wonder, in Pandemonium, a unique cinematic…

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Fabulous Films have released La Brea – The Final Journey on Blu-ray and DVD. At Fabulous Films, we aren’t just about cult classics from your childhood. We also have releases that are bang up to date. From this year in fact. Get us! We are soooo contemporary. Hey I’ll Snapchat you later about Baby Reindeer, once I’ve finished my bottle of Prime. Enjoy all 6 episodes from the third and final season of the hit NBC Universal series La Brea – The Final Journey – as the survivors stranded in the past, fight for one last chance to return home.…

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‘THE MOST VIOLENT AND GORIEST FILM INDIA HAS EVER PRODUCED’ The Hindustan Times Ultraviolent action thrill-ride KILL is out now in cinemas from Lionsgate UK. Synopsis: When army commando Amrit (Lakshya) finds out his true love Tulika (Tanya Maniktala) is engaged against her will, he boards a New Delhi-bound train in a daring quest to derail the arranged marriage. But when a gang of knife-wielding thieves led by the ruthless Fani (Raghav Juyal) begin to terrorise innocent passengers on his train, Amrit takes them on himself in a death-defying kill-spree to save those around him — turning what…

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