Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

EUTHANIZER **** Finland 2017 Dir: Teemu Nikki. 85 mins Matti Onnismaa quietly crafts a truly memorable character in Finnish writer-director Teemu Nikki’s grimly funny character study of what Paul Schrader might call “God’s Lonely Man”. Onnismaa is a pipe-smoking loner, mocked by some as a “dog whisperer”, who euthanizes sick animals at considerably cheaper rates than those offered by the professional vets he despises. If the customer cares for their pet, they get a particularly good deal – if not, they’re likely to be forced to sit in a dog cage. Onnismaa believes people should pay for pain they have…

VALENTINE DAYZ is a heart-stopping horror comedy written and directed by Mark Allen Michaels. Revisiting his unique blend of hardboiled crime thriller and brutal, bloody horror comedy, Michaels’ VALENTINE DAYZ takes his characters on a journey from the champagne and yacht lifestyles of the rich and corrupt, to doom and despair in Death Valley as the zombie apocalypse threatens everything they hold dear. The film stars Carrie Keagan (SHARKNADO 4, The Fiancé) , Dallas Valdez (The Fiancé, Mind Rage – The Director’s Cut) and Robert Allen Mukes (House of 1000 Corpses, Westworld), Diane Ayala Goldner, and Curt Lambert. VALENTINE DAYZ will be…

With the horror film festival market growing in the UK it may be of surprise to some of you that The Darkside Magazine (available at all good newsagents or just subscribe HERE) have their own festival. Now in its second year, this years DARKFEST festival, appropriately named DARKFEST 2 has an excellent line-up and of course guests will be attendance as well. PLUS they will be launching the latest Dark Side book British Horror Films – Beyond Hammer And Amicus, the third in the great Ghoulish trilogy. Now onto the films expected to show: DRACULA (1958), HORROR HOSPITAL (1973), CARRY…

Filmed in Northern California, DEATH KISS stars Robert Kovacs (who has gained attention for his uncanny resemblance to well-known action star Charles Bronson), Daniel Baldwin (JOHN CARPENTER’S VAMPIRES), Richard Tyson (KINDERGARTEN COP, TWO MOON JUNCTION), Eva Hamilton (horror fest fave RUIN ME), Stormi Maya, Leia Perez, Reese Austyn, and Sam Story. DEATH KISS concerns a vigilante with a mysterious past who goes to a crime-infested city and takes the law into his own hands, at the same time protecting a young mother and her child. Writer-director is Rene Perez (PLAYING WITH DOLLS: HAVOC). Producer is Jeff Miller (THE TOYBOX, OUIJA…

NETFL!X AND KILL is the latest darkly hilarious offering from writer/director Kate Shenton, which tells the unlikely story of a psychopath and his victim… who spend all day sitting around watching television. Pitched as ‘Gogglebox with a horror twist,’ the web series is the first production under the Bubble Wrap Creations mantle, a partnership between Shenton and producer Baptiste Charles. The series reunites the award-winning director with Adam Rhys-Davies and Nic Lamont, stars of her hugely popular horror feature EGOMANIAC. Each episode features an homage to a different horror villain, from Pinhead to Freddy Krueger, placing the series firmly in…