Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

Founder and Editor in Chief of Horror Screams Video Vault

Get ready for some (Summer?) holiday spirits as the first family of fright celebrates the festive season in this quirky and hilarious movie THE MUNSTERS’ SCARY LITTLE CHRISTMAS. Released for the first time in the UK on DVD, this is timeless and unique entertainment the whole family can enjoy again and again. It’s a Munsterpiece! THE MUNSTERS’ SCARY LITTLE CHRISTMAS has a completely different cast to HERE COMES THE MUNSTERS, released the previous year in 1995. The full cast had been going to reprise their roles but when Edward Herrmann requested a small raise in his salary, the producers thought it…

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Fabulous Films will be releasing for the first time on DVD and Blu-ray the classic horror film VOODOO MAN, which sees Bela Lugosi (Dracula) starring as ‘mad’ scientist Dr Richard Marlowe in this atmospheric thriller. VOODOO MAN was filmed in just seven days, beginning 16th October 1943. Although Robert Charles is credited as writing the story and screenplay, there are strong similarities with a story called ‘Tiger Man’ written by Andrew Colvin which was purchased by the film company in March 1943. Bela Lugosi played Count Dracula in the 1927 Broadway stage adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel. However, Lugosi was not…

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LAST AMERICAN HORROR SHOW * USA 2018 Dir: Michael S Rodriguez. 82 mins There’s a slightly queasy element of fanboy wish-fulfilment in this feeble anthology’s casting of Felissa Rose as a lonely horror fan with an impressive movie collection and a “Fulci Lives” sticker on her laptop. Rose, at least, is characteristically spirited as the star of the wraparound story, welcoming a blind date to her home and declining his preference to watch a nice faith-based / feel-good movie by showing him horror movies instead. This leads into a trio of amateurish shorts, starting with “Homewrecked”, in which a gang…

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SHED is an independent horror movie with skin-stealing monsters. But really, it’s about love. A tiny crew of lunatics made SHED in Columbia, South Carolina in late 2018 … during a hurricane. SHED is bloody, sexy, weird and transgressive. Written, directed, produced & edited by David Axe, writer & producer of THE THETA GIRL. Starring Mike Amason & Sanethia Dresch. Effects by Lisa Ashworth & Brandon McIver. Music by Matt Akers. “This is definitely a movie for gorehounds not to miss.” – Without Your Head “There is a feeling of otherworldliness here, a dreamlike feel that is immediate.” – The…

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Filmmaker Jeff Payne had the horror community a buzz with his creepy nightmare, THE PALE FACED LADY. Now an announcement has been made that a sequel isn’t far away. The first installment was a stylistic scary short film that left us all wanting more scares.  All we can tell about the upcoming, THE PALE FACED LADY 2 is what’s in these exclusive photos (below), the rest is a mystery. What new direction are you taking THE PALE FACED LADY in with this sequel? “The first one was more narrative driven, giving you the setting, a bit of the story, and what…

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