Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

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…

Game Of Thrones superstar Sophie Turner as you’ve never seen her before, as a high school Lolita tempting American Horror Story’s Dylan McDermott, in this stylish and mysterious rural noir. Sansa Stark ditches the braided hair and heavy robes for a bleach blonde look and cut off denims, as Game Of Thrones star Sophie Turner takes the title role of the gum-chewing, tattooed high school student who bewitches a small town loser in JOSIE. Turner is perfectly cast and irresistible as the girl whose arrival in a small town turns it upside down. American Horror Story’s Dylan McDermott is excellent…

AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS **** UK 2018 Dir: Johnny Kervorkian. 91 mins A decade after his elegiac Elephant & Castle council estate ghost story THE DISAPPEARED, director Johnny Kervorkian makes a welcome return with an apocalyptic horror film doubling as a suitably uncomfortable portrait of a typical British Christmas. While the rolling TV news reports on power surges and suspected terror attacks, estranged grown up son Sam Gittins returns home for festivities with a new girlfriend in tow (Neerja Naik) and then watches existing family grudges and tensions violently escalating when the whole house is inexplicably encased in impenetrable metal shutters.…

There’s something frighteningly fishy going on in Lisa Brühlmann’s shocking debut feature BLUE MY MIND released through Uncork’d Entertainment. An elegiac allegory accompanied by hauntingly visceral body horror, BLUE MY MIND is part Suspiria and part The Metamorphosis but largely incontestably unique. Luna Wedler and Zoë Pastelle Holthuizen headline a celebrated fantasy-drama about a young woman who faces an overwhelming transformation which calls her entire existence into question. Her body is changing radically, and despite desperate attempts to halt the process, she is soon forced to accept that nature is far more powerful than her. Synopsis: 15-year-old Mia and her parents move to…