Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

Orange Is The New Black’s Taylor Schilling makes her horror debut facing a mother’s worst nightmare to save her family from the evil within. From horror rising stars Nicholas McCarthy (The Pact), Jeff Buhler (Pet Sematary), and the producer of The Exorcism of Emily Rose, brace yourself for one of the scariest films of the year, THE PRODIGY. THE PRODIGY is the latest film from celebrated horror director Nicholas McCarthy, who discovered his love for the genre through an unsupervised childhood viewing of The Exorcist. McCarthy builds on the fascinating relationship between motherhood and the macabre seen in favourites like The…

THE SHIPMENT **** Canada 2018 Dir: Bobby Bala. 27 mins Ambition is not lacking in writer-director Bobby Bala’s Canadian short: the dialogue-free first five minutes begins with a breath-taking establishing shot worthy of a big budget major studio spectacular. It never quite tops this initial transition, but does establish its world, characters and story arc in a concise, engaging way. Mandy Patinkin-lookalike Aleks Paunovic is an ex slave trader desperately trying to make ends meet as an interplanetary cargo hauler. He’s running out of money and fuel, and most of all needs to provide for his beloved daughter (Ishana Bala)…

Lesbian Vampires VS Zombie Serial Killers is a great hook for a comic book series and thats just some of the things you can expect to see and read in Midnight Widows. Midnight Widows aims to be two things: first, a kick-ass comic book about lesbian vampires versus zombie serial killers; and second, a love-letter to the horror genre in all of its manifestations. Its principal creators are avid horror fans who have drawn upon a wide range of influences from the genre including Gothic literature, German Expressionist cinema, 1950s US horror comics, horror manga, Italian fumetti, zombie movies, 1980s pulp…

There is a new poster for multi award-winning Harley Wallen’s AGRAMON’S GATE. This much anticipated film was written, produced and directed by multi award-winning filmmaker and actor Harley Wallen (Investigation Discovery’s Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda). This film stars frequent Larry Cohen collaborator Laurene Landon (Maniac Cop 1 and 2, The Stuff, It’s Alive III: Island of the Alive) and Yan Birch (Wes Craven’s The People Underneath the Stairs, Death House). This much buzzed about thriller is the story of Richie (Kris Reilly), a young man with a dark past coming to pull him back in. At the age of…

Auteur Publishing return with the next release in the successful Devil’s Advocates line of books. The first book-length consideration of Ken Russell’s most controversial film THE DEVILS, the complete version of which remains unseen to this day. Undoubtedly the most notorious title in director Ken Russell s controversial filmography, THE DEVILS (1973) caused a real furore on its initial theatrical release, only to largely disappear for many years. This Devil’s Advocate considers the film’s historical context, as the timing of the first appearance of THE DEVILS is of particular importance, released as it was in the aftermath of moral panics surrounding A CLOCKWORK…