Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

ISABELLE ** Canada / USA 2018 Dir: Robert Heydon. 80 mins We’ve had ANNABELLE (twice) and JESSABELLE, so it figures that ISABELLE would show up at some point. Here, THE O.C.’s eternally youthful Adam Brody and heavily pregnant music teacher wife Amanda Crew move house to raise a family – but everything goes horribly wrong, with the baby still born and Crew herself dying for a minute on the operating table. A sequence of spooky events follows, linked to odd-acting neighbour Sheila McCarthy and the mute daughter with spina bifida who constantly watches them from her bedroom window. While the…

AMERICAN ANTICHRIST * USA 2018 Dir: Dakota Ray. 50 mins Denver-based filmmaker Dakota Ray’s career to date includes the cheerfully titled THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN SCUMBAG and I SPREAD HATE LIKE HERPES. Most movie titles could be improved by the addition of the word “Herpes” – SCHINDLER’S HERPES and JURASSIC HERPES, for example, would have arguably made even more money with a discreet change of name. This self-conscious nihilism-by-numbers offering is further punctuated with pretentious / portentous subtitles like “I Am God- My Drug Induced Ego Trip” and “Revelations: The Sickness of Immorality”. Ray himself plays a…

The critic and crowd approved screwball comedy, meets slasher spoof GARDEN PARTY MASSACRE is set for a spring 2019 release via SGL Entertainment. This is the second multiple award-winning film from writer and director Gregory Blair. This is also the second collaboration with SGL Entertainment – the slow-burn psychological thriller DEADLY REVISIONS being the first. With laughs splattering all over the place, GARDEN PARTY MASSACRE is a fast-paced, wacky spoof in the vein of Shaun of the Dead and Tucker and Dale vs. Evil. The fun begins when a friendly backyard gathering goes hilariously awry as an unexpected guest arrives. With…

In the tradition of Dominion and The Mortal Instruments, and from director Jenni Ivers (The Cabin) comes the sci-fi thrill-ride LOOPHOLE, out now from High Octane Pictures. “If this gene is in your DNA, you will commit a violent crime”. Synopsis: The gene for violence is discovered, setting off a demand for world-wide testing, promoting the belief that these people will commit a violent crime. College student Lexi Smith finds herself in the middle of a collision between science and religion where all of humanity hangs in the balance. Chloe Lukasiak (Center Stage: On Pointe), Kera O’Bryon and Bubba Ho-Tep’s…

WHITE SPACE (a.k.a. Beyond White Space) ***** U.S.A. / Hungary 2018 Dir: Ken Locsmandi 94 mins In the year 2150, the interplanetary fishing vessel ‘Essex’ is boarded by pirates and the crew left with few provisions. To recoup their losses, the captain makes the dangerous decision to go after a legendary space creature responsible for the death of his father. Director Ken Locsmandi and writers Ryan Colucci and Clay McLeod Chapman have created an exciting science fiction adventure film. The plot of “White Space” is an homage to the classic story of obsession “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville. Naming the…