Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

RAVENSWOOD (a.k.a. Ravenswood Asylum) ** Australia 2017 Dir: Jon Cohen 88 mins 4 American tourists on a trip to Australia attend a ghost tour of Ravenswood, an old abandoned psychiatric hospital reported to be haunted. The ghost of one of the doctors, who committed suicide after killing several patients, and the youngest patient Sara his last victim are said to still be roaming the hospital. Tour guides Zach and Emma have done numerous tours of the building with very little happening so had rigged up a few scares in preparation but this time things start to get creepy on there…

WISH UPON *** USA / Canada 2017 Dir: John R. Leonetti 90 mins In this contemporary take on “The Monkey’s Paw” from the director of ANNABELLE and WOLVES AT THE DOOR, boyfriend-less, motherless teen Joey King acquires a Chinese music box offering seven wishes. Naturally, she uses the first wish to strike down the school bitch with a flesh-eating disease, so she can be mocked via pictures of her skin rotting off on social media. Unfortunately, every time a wish is fulfilled a “blood price” is paid, which means someone close to her will be dragged hair-first into a waste…

3RD NIGHT is a horror film from Australia. Shot by up-and-coming director Adam Graveley (“Killer Experience”), the film brings two poachers to a remote home. Here, the newly married Jonathan (Robert Hartburn, Hidden Light) and Megan Reid (Jesse McGinn, Broken Contract) are terrorized in their new farmhouse. Is there any way to escape? 3RD NIGHT also stars: Bruce Denny (Death Bet) and Connor Gosatti (Midnight Ticket). Director and graphic designer Graveley won the Neville Brody’s International FUSE competition, for design. His story, heavy on pastoral imagery, is set in Western Australia. Over three nights, Jonathan and Megan are subjected to unimaginable…

This year is the 169th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s death and while many of his works have been interpreted over the years in various mediums, it is perhaps his narrative poem The Raven that many are familiar with. First published in 1845, Poe’s poem has left an impression on many throughout the world and now The Raven will fly once more. Director Damian Draven’s interpretation aims to peel back the skin in a word for word immersion of Edgar Allan Poe’s poetic masterpiece. His hope is to create the go to movie for Poe fans and a modern audience.…

Take the techno-paranoia of Black Mirror, add the intergalactic body horror of John Carpenter’s THE THING, adapt them into a VHS board game, and wrap it all up in a bitingly satirical Christmas-movie package, and what do you get? AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS recently had its European Premiere at Arrow Video Frightfest Film Festival in London in August. Dark Sky Films have announced that they will be bringing the movie to theaters and VOD in America. AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS comes from British director Johnny Kevorkian and co-starring David Bradley of Game Of Thrones, Doctor Who, and Harry Potter fame. “Sharp and twisted.”…