Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

SURVEILLED is an exciting TransAtlantic production with a mix of USA and UK cast, and embraces the surge in demand for ‘smart horror’ films: less gore with more humour and story originality mixed with fascinatingly complex characters. Did GET OUT give you a fear of the deep and the bottomless? Did DON’T BREATHE leave you gasping for air? Did A QUIET PLACE terrify you into silence? James Smith and Caroline Spence are a writer/director and screenwriter/producer partnership who work under the banner of Raya Films and they are cheering loud and hard for the new batch of ‘smart’ horror movies…

Breaking Glass Pictures have announced that they will be releasing the beautifully-crafted mystery thriller LOST CHILD to limited theaters and DVD/VOD this September. LOST CHILD had its world premiere at Heartland Film Festival 2017. It has also played at Kansas City Film Festival, 2017 where it was winner for: Best Narrative Feature. It also got an award for Best Actress at Taormina Film Festival, 2017. The film was directed by Ramaa Mosleyand and stars Leven Rambin, Jim Parrack, Taylor John-Smith and Landon Edwards. Synopsis: LOST CHILD follows an army veteran, Fern, who returns home in order to look for her brother, only…

Horror-On-Sea Film Festival will be returning for another year in 2019 with more horror delights to keep those winter chills away. Taking place at the Park Inn Palace Hotel, Southend-On-Sea, UK, the mayhem and madness will take place in January, over two weekends: Friday 11th to Sunday 13th and Friday 18th to Sunday 20th. The Festival is now open for submissions and you have until 15th September 2018 to get those screeners in. You can send online screeners for shorts and feature length films to: horror@thewhitebus.org.uk If you have a DVD screener, e-mail them to the same address above to…

EPIDEMIC *** USA 2018 Dir: Stephen Michael Giglio 71 mins It is Dana’s 30th birthday and to celebrate she and her boyfriend, Mike are throwing a party at their house. It’s only a few friends and her estranged father that have been invited. Before heading over to the party one of the friends unwittingly gets infected by a deadly pathogen which basically puts a dramatic end to the other party guests. Being very, very late to his daughters party, Rufus discovers the macabre scene and manages to whisk Dana away but of course he was just that little bit too…

Ahead of its UK Digital HD release on Friday 7th September 2018, Vertigo Releasing have released two thrilling clips of REVENGE which you can check out below. REVENGE stars Matilda Lutz (RINGS), Kevin Janssens (TV series Salamander), Vincent Colombe (Point Blank). Written and directed by Coralie Fargeat, with music provided by Robin Coudert (Composer, Amityville: The Awakening). Synopsis: Wealthy and handsome Richard takes his beautiful young mistress Jen to an isolated luxury condo in the desert, a few days ahead of his annual hunt. When his two hunting partners turn up unexpectedly, the booze starts flowing and things quickly become debauched. Events…