Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

THE TRIBE ** U.S.A. 2016 Dir: Roxy Shih 97 mins After a promising first couple of minutes The Tribe quickly slows down to trickle as we meet 3 sisters whose family have succumbed to a disease that has almost wiped out the human race. Oldest sister, Jenny (Jessica Rothe) is responsible for her siblings and tries her best to control the wayward middle sister, Sarah (Anne Winters) and mute youngest sister, Danika (Chloe Beth Jones). With supplies running out they do not welcome guests kindly until one day, a floppy haired straight-out-of-a-boy band type, Ryan (Michael Nardelli) sweet talks Jenny…

THE KILLERS *** USA 2019 Dir: John Woods. 10 mins Written and produced in ten days for Playhouse West – Philadelphia Film Festival, this short offers an engaging variation on faux-documentary genre films like BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON. An unseen camera crew follows three very different, prolific serial killers, proudly announcing their kill-count so far via on-screen captions. Frank has 34 confirmed kills and specialises in killing teenage girls with a knife. He’s fond of referencing movies, though Danny (30 kills to date) dismisses Frank’s lack of originality (“He’s like Michael Myers or something!”) and has…

An engrossing supernatural thriller that at times feels like a found-footage documentary, BEYOND THE SKY is both an evocative journey into the unknown, and a portrait of the community built around one of modern day’s most prolific myths. Ryan Carnes (Doctor Who) confidently leads the film as an abrasive sceptic convinced that recollections of abductions are false memories made to mask other traumas. His distrust of the stories he hears allows the film to play with our own beliefs and expectations alongside his, as we become equally unsure of what truth really is out there. If Carnes is the film’s…

Emma Dark (Salient Minus Ten) will be gracing screens this summer as the lead in the short film HOUSE OF LEXI. HOUSE OF LEXI is a psychological short horror film written, produced and directed by M W Daniels, featuring English horror actress Emma Dark. Synopsis: Lexi stone supposedly lost her mother in a car crash and her mother also lost her baby sister at birth. Lexi imagines her sister growing up and wants to be there for her but the emotional bond turns and starts to haunt and makes her question whats happening to her. Keep an eye on film festivals…

MPI Media Group has officially released the trailer and announced the release date for the highly anticipated MASTER OF DARK SHADOWS, a comprehensive celebration of the legendary Gothic daytime series Dark Shadows and its visionary creator, Dan Curtis. The feature documentary, which was shot in New York, LA and London, includes interviews with key actors and filmmakers involved in the undyingly popular story of vampire Barnabas Collins and all the eerie goings-on at the gloomy Maine mansion Collinwood. The documentary was directed by David Gregory (Lost Soul, Godfathers of Mondo )and is set to be released this spring. Narrated by…