Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

Founder and Editor in Chief of Horror Screams Video Vault

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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101 Films is proud to present RABID (1977), the enduringly tense and gruesome horror that marked a landmark in David Cronenberg’s early career. RABID is written and directed by David Cronenberg (VIDEODROME) and produced by John Dunning, Ivan Reitman and Don Carmody. The film stars Marilyn Chambers, Howard Ryshpan, Frank Moore and Patricia Gage (AMERICAN PSYCHO). Synopsis: When Rose suffers terrible injuries in a motorcycle crash, she is taken to a nearby clinic run by Dr Keloid for experimental skin-graft surgery. At first, the revolutionary procedure proves successful, but it soon leaves Rose with a strange orifice protruding from…

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Uncork’d Entertainment have released BLINDSIDED starring True Detective’s Bea Santos. From director Johnny Mitchell (who also co-wrote the film with Brandon Tataryn and Brad Wetherly) comes a terrifying, first-rate horror-thriller from Canada. Starring alongside Bea Santos is Eric Knudsen (Scream 4), Atticus Mitchell (“Killjoys”), Melinda Shankar (“Slasher”), and Paul Popowich (“Hemlock Grove”) also star. Synopsis: Sloan Carter is a young girl who has recently been blinded. Her father leaves for the weekend and her two best friends, returning home from University, keep her company. A protege of her father’s, passing through town, also spends the night. The peaceful weekend is…

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