Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

UNBREAKABLE ***** USA 2000 Dir: M Night Shyamalan. 106 mins Writer-director Shyamalan’s follow-up to the widely praised THE SIXTH SENSE shared a nuanced, understated Bruce Willis performance, an autumnal Philadelphia backdrop, an impressive juvenile actor (here, Spencer Treat Clark) and a sombre, thoughtful approach to familiar genre material. An expertly constructed comic book origin story from the era before Marvel movies dominated Hollywood, it follows security guard Bruce Willis’ dramatically changing life after he emerges as the only survivor of a horrific train derailment. Brittle-boned comic book obsessive Samuel L Jackson persistently contacts Willis, insistent that he is his direct…

Later this month Severin Films will release two films that fans have been clamouring for a release for some time. Both are available from 26th February on DVD and Blu-ray and come with a whole host of extras. INVASION OF THE BLOOD FARMERS “They planted the LIVING and harvested the DEAD.” Early 70’s grindhouse patrons were greeted with that proclamation from the salacious poster for INVASION OF THE BLOOD FARMERS, a deranged no budget exercise in audacious audience abuse. Severin Films is bringing Ed Adlum’s unforgettable cult curio to home video in a gorgeous new presentation to plant it’s sinful…

THE UNSEEN is an upcoming invisible man film from director Geoff Redknap (Cabin in the Woods). This title had its World Premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival, this past Summer. Now, THE UNSEEN can be seen on DVD and Digital, through United States’ film distributor Monarch Home Entertainment this February. THE UNSEEN stars Aden Young (“Rectify,” 2013) as Bob Langmore. He has a strange condition, in which his body is slowly disappearing. Dissolving away, Bob reaches out to his family with time running out. However, his former wife, Darlene (Camille Sullivan) tells him that Eva (Julia Sarah Stone) is missing, leading to Bob’s desperate…

PARENTS **** USA / Canada 1989 Dir: Bob Balaban. 82 mins The child abuse / adult alcoholism metaphors at the core of Christopher Hawthorne’s witty, disturbing script for PARENTS are richly evident, though many viewers will interpret it differently according to their own individual experiences growing up and personal paranoia about parental secrets. Red blooded American Dad Randy Quaid is a company man for “Toxico” with shirt, tie, yellow cardigan, horn rimmed spectacles and a hollow smile. He moves sitcom housewife Mary Beth Hurt and their sullen, withdrawn son Michael (Bryan Madorsky) to a picture-perfect vision of 1958 suburbia. The…

In the outback, no-one can hear you squeal! Director Chris Sun, the writer-director of the horror comedy Charlie’s Farm, has assembled an awesome cast of genre film legends – Bill Moseley, who played ChopTop in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2; the superb John Jarratt from the Wolf Creek films; Roger Ward and Steve Bisley, the cops from Ozploitation classic Mad Max; and the formidable former WWF star Nathan Jones, who played Rictus Erectus from Mad Max: Fury Road, who here gets to indulge in some no-nonsense boar-wrestling, as well as lip-synching to Vanilla Ice. Thrown into this macho mix are…