Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

Out now from Giant Meteor Films comes the fantasy-horror throwback APOCALYPSE RISING. Directed by Richard Lowry (DOMINION) from a script written by award-winning writer/producer Gregory Wolk. APOCALYPSE RISING stars rising movie muscle Shane Samples, Hunter Park (Anamoly) and Johanna Rae (Psychos). Synopsis: Mia is an extrasensory teenage girl living on the planet Rathe, a world besieged by the undead. After a violent last stand, Mia and her warrior friends escape their world in a spacecraft. APOCALYPSE RISING is out now on VOD and DVD from Gravitas Ventures and Giant Meteor Films.

GREEN ROOM ***** USA 2015 Dir: Jeremy Saulnier 95 mins Small time punk band The Ain’t Rights are touring the Pacific Northwest in their clapped out van trying to “make it”. After a guy organises a gig that barely buys them lunch he promises them a show (that pays) that night at a club but warns them of a Neo Nazi presence. Turns out the whole gig is organised by skinheads. Still, after playing and winding up the crowd they get paid and attempt to make a sharp exit. One band member forgets their phone and another goes back to…

Dark Sky Films are proud to announce that DEAD NIGHT will be making its way to DVD this September in America. Mixing original storytelling with timeless supernatural elements, DEAD NIGHT the directorial debut of Bradford Baruh – features a stellar cast of genre favorites including Barbara Crampton (RE-ANIMATOR), Brea Grant (A Ghost Story)and AJ Bowen (You’re Next)and delivers a wild and terrifying weekend away. The Dark Sky Films 2018 theatrical release premiered at the Fantastic Fest. DEAD NIGHT also had its European Premiere at Arrow Video Frightfest film festival this August in London. Jennie Kermode of Eye for Film called it: “an…

Genre distributor Terror Films has teamed up with SHUDDER, the leading premium streaming service for thriller, suspense and horror, for the exclusive release of writer/director Stephen Cognetti’s highly anticipated sequel, HELL HOUSE LLC II –THE ABADDON HOTEL. HELL HOUSE LLC, which was originally released by Terror Films in the fall of 2016, has become a top performer across digital platforms garnering both critical and consumer praise and landing the film on top “must see” horror lists from multiple outlets. The sequel will be available exclusively on Shudder for the first 90 days in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Ireland.…

SHOW YOURSELF ** USA 2016 Dir: Billy Ray Brewton. 79 mins In writer-director Brewton’s feature, actor Ben Heathcoat, preparing for a remake of LA STRADA (!) and pressured by his agent to just make a DIE HARD-type picture, takes refuge at a cabin in the woods to scatter the ashes of his recently deceased childhood friend. Nostalgically revisiting old home movies in a bid to “feel something”, he cannot detach himself from the question of why his friend committed suicide and begins to feel an ominous presence following him around. Largely a one-man show in which Heathcoat communicates via Skype…