Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

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…

Noted actors Richard Tyson (KINDERGARTEN COP, BLACK HAWK DOWN) and Harley Wallen (Investigation Discovery’s Homicide Hunter Lt. Joe Kenda, ETERNAL CODE) join primetime Emmy nominee Naomi Grossman (AMERICAN HORROR STORY), Maria Olsen (I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE: DEJA VU) as well as legendary action stars Mel Novak (Bruce Lee’s GAME OF DEATH, AN EYE FOR AN EYE opposite Chuck Norris) and Vernon Wells (WEIRD SCIENCE, MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR) for ThunderKnight Entertainment LTD and AEC Studios’ indie horror drama film, THE INITIATION as profiled in Deadline Hollywood. Professor Daniel Kimmer (Jimmy Drain) of St. Elzears College, has come…

Signature Entertainment proudly presents Sarah Bolger in the violent and powerful Northern Irish thriller A GOOD WOMAN IS HARD TO FIND out now on Digital.  ★★★★★ HORROR CHANNEL    ★★★★★ ELECTRIC SHADOWS   ★★★★ FLICKERING MYTH Directed by Abner Pastoll, A GOOD WOMAN IS HARD TO FIND stars Sarah Bolger, Edward Hogg, Andrew Simpson and Jane Brennan. Written by Academy Award® nominee and BAFTA winner Ronan Blaney. Synopsis: This crowd-pleasing and violent kitchen-sink revenge thriller is a dark and daring journey through Northern Ireland’s criminal underbelly. Recently widowed mother of two Sarah (a tour-de-force Sarah Bolger, Mayans…