PRINCE OF DARKNESS **** USA 1987 Dir: John Carpenter. 97 mins Considered the middle part of an “apocalypse” trilogy bracketed by THE THING and IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, this was Carpenter’s return to low budget filmmaking after several years of working for Hollywood studios. A mature and unfashionable 80’s horror film infused with the spirit of Nigel Kneale (Carpenter wrote it under the pseudonym of Martin Quatermass), it opens like THE FOG with a ten minute title sequence setting up disparate characters in multiple locations, including a Priest (Donald Pleasence) who, like Father Malone, discovers a diary that will…
Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
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Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, have announced that it has acquired all rights in its territories to seaside horror THE BEACH HOUSE following its North American premiere as the opening night film at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. The debut film from writer-director Jeffrey A. Brown, THE BEACH HOUSE stars Liana Liberato, Noah Le Gros, Jake Weber and Maryanne Nagel and had its world premiere in October at the Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival and the Sitges Film Festival. It was produced by Andrew D. Corkin (WE ARE WHAT WE ARE, A VIGILANTE),…
THE DEAD DON’T DIE **** USA / Sweden 2019 Dir: Jim Jarmusch. 104 mins Having turned his distinctive voice to vampirism with ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE, writer-director Jarmusch now essays the equally well-trodden realm of the zombie movie – and gives the sub-genre a much-needed shot in the arm. Jarmusch offers a vision of small-town USA in 2019, a place where farmer Steve Buscemi wears a “Keep America White Again” baseball cap, Tom Waits’ mad hermit suggests the end is nigh and Bill Murray’s police chief has a wonderful deadpan double act with Deputy Adam Driver, whose catchphrase is “this…
Genre distributor TERROR FILMS is getting a jump on their 2020 release slate with a wide variety of films that will surely delight the appetite of horror fans! The films tackle topics from: possession, back-stabbing friends, agoraphobia, selling your soul for fame, vampires who sell an immortal narcotic, crazy intruders, killer animals, an anthology and much more. The slate will also include the release of HELL HOUSE LLC III: LAKE OF FIRE, from the popular HELL HOUSE LLC franchise. The film, which is currently only available to stream on Shudder will hit digital platforms on 3rd January 2020. Check…
The critically acclaimed breakout Sci-Fi hit of 2018, UPGRADE from director Leigh Whannell (INSIDIOUS, SAW) and the team behind GET OUT, gets its highly anticipated enhanced release as a Limited Edition Blu-ray, complete with a host of brand new special features from Second Sight Films. Synopsis: In a near-future world, where technology controls everything, technophobe Grey Trace (Logan Marshall-Green – The Invitation, Spider-Man: Homecoming) is the victim of a brutal mugging that leaves his wife dead and him paralysed. A reclusive billionaire inventor offers him an experimental cure, an A.I. implant called STEM. Grey accepts and is immediately transformed…