Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

Rellik Pictures has released the first look at Barry Jay’s KILLER THERAPY. The latest scream from the director of ASHES and executive producer of NEVER HIKE ALONE, KILLER THERAPY tells the story of Brian, a disturbed young man seeking revenge for slights real and imagined, from the family that is terrified of him to the long line of therapists who tried and failed to find a soul inside him. For his second feature, Jay enlisted the talents of genre legend Thom Mathews as the family patriarch. After early appearances in RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD and as long-time Jason foe…

Linus de Paoli’s A YOUNG MAN WITH HIGH POTENTIAL is a unsettling psychological thriller about a painfully shy graduate student and his increasingly unsettled relationship with a female student. Amanda Plummer (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Pulp Fiction) co-stars. The film had its International Premiere at London’s FrightFest 2018 and has been released by Artsploitation Films on various VOD/Streaming Outlets. Synopsis: Piet (Adam Ild Rohweder) is a brilliant grad student but also painfully shy and socially inept. His lonely and sexually frustrated existence changes when he is forced to partner on a school project with the pretty and outgoing…

1ST SUMMONING **** USA 2018 Dir: Raymond Wood 94 mins Your first attempt could become your last when wisdom does not prevail and four young comrades Mark (Teddy Cole), his love rival Ryan (Brook Todd), Leslie (Hayley Lovitt), Mark’s girlfriend and Ace (Ace Harney) soon discover this in what is a creepy offering from Darkwood Pictures as they encounter ritual sacrifice and a crazed vicar in a small town with a dark past. The similarities to The Blair Witch Project are self evident, but with cunning twists on that riveting tale this movie takes us on a supernatural tour of…

From acclaimed director Karyn Kusama (GIRL FIGHT, JENNIFER’S BODY, DESTROYER) comes taut psychological thriller THE INVITATION, which premiered to great acclaim at London Film Festival and now gets a Blu-ray release, complete with a slew on special features from Second Sight this November. Reluctantly accepting a dinner party invitation from his ex-wife Eden (Tammy Blanchard – Into the Woods) at the house they once shared, Will (Logan Marshall-Green – Spider-Man: Homecoming, Prometheus) and his new partner Kira (Emayatzy Corinealdi – Roots, Ballers) gather with old friends to toast new beginnings. But Will and his ex-wife share a tragic past, and…

THE KILLING DEATH * Canada 2008 Dir: Ian Russell. 63 mins I mean. What can be said about THE KILLING DEATH — an ultra-low-budget horror movie inspired by Mel Brooks particular brand of humour, featuring bizzaro gross-out gags and a dead-eyed murderer just trying to make the perfect pizza. Rookie cop Jimmy (Geoff Trubiak) and his seasoned partner Frank (Jeremy Dangerfield) are trying to solve a series of murders where a piece (or chunk, or organ) of every victim is being taken by the killer. Phil (Neil Reamer) is an unassuming pizza delivery guy who’s been inspired by an ancient…