Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

Founder and Editor in Chief of Horror Screams Video Vault

RAPTURE director Royce Freeman is currently busy working on the thriller IN UTERO. IN UTERO is in post production, where the film will get the music created and colour shading to the film. It is also currently looking for a distributor. The film was designed to be a throw back to 70s/80s grindhouse films with a modern edge. More details on the movie can be found in the featurette below along with a trailer. Stay up to date with IN UTERO by giving the Facebook page a LIKE https://www.facebook.com/inuterothemovie/

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Provocator have announced that production has just finished in Los Angeles on BIT, a vampire horror film written and directed by Brad Michael Elmore. BIT is the story of Laurel, a teenage transgender girl who moves to LA and falls in with a gang of intersectional feminist vampires. Not knowing if they want to kill her, befriend her or turn her, Laurel learns to understand the love and dangers of her new and first group of friends. The film will star newcomer Nicole Maines who gave a TEDx Talk about growing up openly transgender. Nicole was featured in the HBO…

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Terror Films has managed to bring horror fans everything under the sun. Ghosts, demons, killers and creatures of all shapes and sizes have been shown by this distributor. This genre distributor will bring you the most risquee in puppet horror, Jon Bristol’s HEAD. HEAD is everything you could want and more in a horror film. It’s an ode to 80’s horror flicks about a group of twenty-somethings on a camping trip. There are hot chicks, sex in tents, a serial killer chopping off heads and victims tied up in trees. What more could you ask for? Oh yeah – all…

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RAPTURE ** U.S.A. 2015 Dir: Royce Freeman 95 mins Grace (a devout Christian) and her friends are heading to see her ill Grandmother in hospital but on the way their car runs out of fuel. Seeking help at a nearby home they are welcomed in, but what they don’t know is that their troubles have only just begun when Wolf comes home. This is a complex movie that many will struggle with but it is a film that has many religious themes working throughout. I really liked the idea that even through adversity some of the characters stand true to…

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HEREDITARY ***** USA 2018 Dir: Ari Aster 127 mins Like some of modern horror’s greatest achievements, this is a story of a fractured family unit gate-crashed by the paranormal. Following the death of her dementia-ridden mother, Toni Collette secretly attends bereavement groups due to a concern about not grieving appropriately, while a further tragedy sees her taking solace in chummy new friend Ann Dowd’s promise of a successful “live séance”. This study of grief operates from an emotionally wrenching dramatic base, galvanised by Collette’s astonishingly raw performance and the repressed rage and inner turmoil of the husband (Gabriel Byrne) who…

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