Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

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…

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…