Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

Founder and Editor in Chief of Horror Screams Video Vault

This summer, trespassers will be prosecuted with terror. From writer-director Miles Doleac (Demons), comes a spine-chilling new motion picture experience in the tradition of The Green Inferno and Deliverance, HALLOWED GROUND. Synopsis: A married couple, trying to rebuild their relationship after an affair, travels to a secluded cabin and stumbles into a blood feud between the Native American owners of the property and the neighboring clan, who obsessively guard their land and punish those who trespass on it in terrifying ways. Doleac (Banshee), Sherri Eakin (Hayride), Ritchie Montgomery (The Magnificent Seven), and Lindsay Anne Williams (The Hollow) star in an Uncork’d…

Read More

Juan Frausto, director of Road Kill and Once Upon a Time in the Hood, invites you to log on for a streaming screamfest that will leave one girl possessed… and you on the edge of your seat! THE POSSESSION DIARIES stars Eileen Dietz (THE EXORCIST), Johnny Ortiz (Peppermint), Noel Gugliemi (Fresh Off The Boat), Monica Engesser (Crazy in Love), and Delilah Cotto (Empire) star alongside James Russo and Katherine Munroe. Synopsis: Playing with a Ouija board is dangerous, and college student Rebecca Clarkson (Katherine Munroe) is now documenting the proof, as day by day a demon takes possession of her while…

Read More

DEAD DAD ** U.K. 2015 Dir: Lee Burgess 25 mins Dead Dad was originally filmed in 2007-2008 as part of a collection of shorts to be combined into a feature film called Dreaming Of Screaming. This and two other shorts, torture flick Looking Good and a vampire film called Lady, were to play homage to Euro Horror filmmakers of the 70’s and 80’s. However it was thought that due to the pace of the different films it wasn’t going to work so writers John Ninnis and Lee Burgess (also the director) decided to keep the films separate. This particular one was finally…

Read More

THE DOLLMAKER **** USA 2017 Dir: Alan Lougher. 9 mins “No one ever asked for their money back…” With the aid of an ageing, devious dollmaker (Daniel Martin Berkey), a lock of hair and a favourite possession, desperately grieving mother Perri Lauren attempts to take the agony away from losing her son. The boy’s father (Sean Meehan) disapproves intensely for what he dismisses as “an over-priced stupid doll”. Outside of the family house it is indeed a doll; but in their arms, the custom-made creation comes to life and it’s almost like having him back again. Inevitably, it comes with…

Read More

Patrick DiCesare’s Artist Rights Distribution has acquired global distribution rights to two high-profile genre films, both of which will be released theatrically in North America later in the year. The critically acclaimed Hitchcockian-style feature WHAT DEATH LEAVES BEHIND, starring Vincent Young and horror staple Erin O’Brien (Clinton Road), and an Anna Stromberg spookfest titled THE LOST FOOTAGE OF LEAH SULLIVAN, are the company’s latest acquisitions. WHAT DEATH LEAVES BEHIND, directed by Scott A. Hamilton, tells of a man who, after a kidney transplant, experiences reoccurring nightmares he believes to be visions of his donor’s violent murder, sending him on a dark path…

Read More