Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

The dark, indie thriller MADE ME DO IT is the latest title to be released by U.S. based distributor Indican Pictures. A psychological look at the creation of a serial killer, MADE ME DO IT takes a first-hand look at a troubled slasher villain. Shot with almost complete practical effects, MADE ME DO IT is a film from director Benjamin Ironside Koppin. The film stars: Anna B. Shaffer (Strange Angel), Kyle Van Vonderern (Death Lust), Cortney Palm and Jason Gregory London. Thomas Berkson (Vonderen) is the portrait of a tortured soul. Abused and rejected, Thomas has only one outlet left – murder! Encouraged by the…

Indican Pictures has picked up distribution rights to Tony Wash’s HIGH ON THE HOG. The film stars Sid Haig (3 From Hell), Joe Estevez (Public Enemy) and Robert Z’dar (Maniac Cop I & II & III), in his final role. The film is a genre bender as Big Daddy (Haig) fights against the government, to maintain his grow-op. Haig is also the producer on this grindhouse feature, with early details on the release of HIGH ON THE HOG available now. Part comedy and part horror, HIGH ON THE HOG takes place on a remote farm. Here, everything is grown, including the green herb. But,…

VIDEOMAN (a.k.a. Videomannen) **** Sweden 2018 Dir: Kristian A. Soderstrom. 94 mins A unique, disarming love story recommended to anyone who has ever had a debate about whether Rosalba Neri’s enthusiastic fingering in SLAUGHTER HOTEL was body-doubled. Italian immigrant Stefan Sauk once ran the best video store in Sweden (his description), peddling what he lovingly calls “fat shiny boxes with animated covers”. Lamenting the “digital plague” of the 21st century, he faces eviction, likening his outsider status to King Kong in New York. A change in fortune emerges when a mysterious, notorious collector known as “Faceless” offers 10,000 Euros for…

ELDER ISLAND *** U.S.A. 2016 Dir: Darrin James 81 mins Ok so, this is based on the true events of Beaver Island Michigan in the 1800’s the Director and writers just changed the name of the island in question to Elder Island. We are taken back in time to meet The Reverend, a fiercely religious man trying to control his congregation, and his family who are then gunned down by the island folk and secretly buried but The Reverend returns from the dead to exact his revenge. Back to the present day and a camera crew arrive on the island…

IDW founder and Diablo House writer/co-creator Ted Adams and Locke & Key artist/co-creator Gabriel Rodríguez are excited to present an all-new interpretation of H.G. Wells’ classic science fiction novel, The Island of Dr. Moreau. Debuting in July, the two-part comic book tale of terror and evolution will be coloured by Nelson Dániel and lettered by Robbie Robbins. “Wells’ novel is as relevant today as when he wrote it in 1896,” says Adams. “It addresses the subject of the thin line that separates men from beasts and the question that all scientists should ask themselves: ‘Just because we can do something,…