Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

Founder and Editor in Chief of Horror Screams Video Vault

SHED *** USA 2019 Dir: David Axe. 82 mins A scrappy but ambitious and unpredictable indie horror from writer-director David Axe, this revels in the playful camerawork and oddball p.o.v. shots of early Sam Raimi while invoking some of the off-kilter, dreamlike ambience of Don Coscarelli’s original PHANTASM. It’s all stitched together into something that, although messy, feels genuinely quite original. Mike Amason is fun as an ageing yarn-spinner, the kind of chap who invites the local youths over to his farm to listen to his conspiracy theories and ponder over life’s great mysteries: ever wonder why wearing your own…

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The feeding frenzy begins! CRITTERS ATTACK!, the newest entry in the bloody, live-action, horror/sci-fi film series lands on earth this August from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on Blu-rayTM, DVD and Digital. Dee Wallace (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), who starred in the original Critters as Helen Brown, will sink her teeth into the franchise for a second time in the mysterious role of Aunt Dee. Inspired by the film series from the ’80s and ’90s, Critters follows 20-year-old Drea (Tashiana Washington), who reluctantly takes a job babysitting for a professor of a college she hopes to attend. Struggling to entertain the professor’s…

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The frightening HELLMINGTON from writer-directors Justin Hewitt-Drakulic and Alex Lee Williams premieres on DVD and Digital this September. Genre icon Michael Ironside (Total Recall, Top Gun, Turbo Kid) and Shadowhunters’ Nicola Correia-Damude stars in this year’s “Blair Witch Project”, an effectively frightening and chilling look inside the walls of an asylum and the young blogger who disappeared within it. In 1999, outside the sleepy town of Hellmington, troubled high school senior Katie Owens mysteriously vanished. Nine years later, Detective Samantha Woodhouse, a former classmate of Katie’s, returns to Hellmington for the first time since graduation to deal with the unexpected…

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101 Films presents Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado’s BIG BAD WOLVES (2013), a brutal and unpredictable thriller that addresses the perils of victimhood and the consequences of vengeance. Synopsis: A series of brutal murders puts the lives of three men on a collision course: The father of the latest victim now out for revenge, a vigilante police detective operating outside the boundaries of law, and the main suspect in the killings – a religious studies teacher arrested and released due to a police blunder. Released on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK, this release includes Last…

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