Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

Dawna Lee Heising’s DARK CLASSICS, Dustin Ferguson’s ROBOWOMAN and William Lee’s BLACK MAMBA are honoured to be Official Selections of Del Weston and Theresa Weston’s 16th Annual Action On Film International Film Festival. In addition, DARK CLASSICS is an Official Selection of the 2019 Hollywood Dreamz International Film Festival. Both prestigious and highly successful Film Festivals will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada from 24th July through 3rd August 2019 at the Brenden Theaters, located in the Palms Hotel & Casino. Director Craig Railsback filmed Dawna Lee Heising performing a monologue by Lady Macbeth from Shakespeare’s classic play “Macbeth” for…

THE UNSEEN *** USA 2016 Dir: Geoff Redknap. 106 mins Aden Young is a hard-working, hard-drinking timber mill worker in this sombre take on a familiar genre theme. He has been estranged from his now-17-year-old daughter for the last eight years while haunted by past glories as a prominent professional ice hockey prospect and memories of a traumatic childhood. Prices are rising rapidly on the illegal substances he needs to get through a working week and, after being seriously wounded in a crash on an icy road, he takes a job as a drug runner to make some extra dough.…

We previously brought you news on HUMAN HIBACHI a few months back (click here) and now Cerrito Productions has released the new teaser trailer for HUMAN HIBACHI, directed by Mario Cerrito III. A movie that was made to be sold on the black market in Japan was intercepted by authorities. The film follows two couples as they celebrate a 35th birthday party at a Japanese owned restaurant. What was caught on film is some of the most grotesque, horrifying images imaginable. Featuring Elizabeth Gaynor, Carmine Giordano, Wataru Nishida, Carley Harper, Sopheaktra Theng, Andrew Hunsicker, John Campanile and Stafford Chavis. A…

THE GREEN INFERNO (a.k.a. Cannibal Holocaust II) ** Italy / Spain 1988 Dir: Antonio Climati. 90 mins Reporter May Deseligny – she swings well with high society and has a yen for shrunken heads – gets her Airboat Adventure mates to steal a bright yellow plane for a mission in the Amazon to locate a missing anthropologist. Time-passing local customs (toad racing!) and a once-censored, fleeting bout of shooting blow darts at monkeys are among the diversions as they also become aware of 500 tonnes of undiscovered gold lost somewhere in the jungle. Ditching the graphic gore and extensive animal…

Despite being the product of Roger Corman’s AIP exploitation studio, HOUSE OF USHER (1960) enjoys a high standing. But while the impact and cult status of Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe cycle is often discussed in histories of gothic, horror and exploitation cinema, no extended analysis and critical discussion has been published to date that explores specifically the aesthetic appeal of HOUSE OF USHER. This Devil’s Advocate provides a complete study of Corman’s influential first Poe picture. Evert Jan van Leeuwen explores the underlying narrative structure, borrowed from Poe’s original story and shows how close Richard Matheson’s script followed Poe’s theory of…