Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

Ride the Black Chariot: A Hitchcockian Horror of Vengeance and Retribution Hex Studios is excited to announce Black Chariot, an intense and deeply disturbing supernatural horror directed by Lawrie Brewster (Lord of Tears, The Unkindness of Ravens), inspired by the macabre genius of Alfred Hitchcock. Drawing from Hitchcock’s dark thrillers like Rebecca (1942) and Psycho (1960), Brewster seeks to invoke Hitchcock’s spirit, combined with his love of classic film noir and Val Lewton’s atmospheric slow-burn horrors. Director Lawrie Brewster shared, “My childhood was spent haunted and mesmerized by the romantic and seductive veil Hitchcock cast over me. It shaped…

In the summer of 2007 a group of emerging filmmakers and actors set out into the Scottish wilderness to make a low budget horror film in homage to the low budget American horror films of the 1970s. The grizzly slasher titled The Bench has never been completed, until now. Inspired by Tobe Hooper’s original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), this team of filmmakers led by writer / director Sean Wilkie (Matter of Time) used the HD revolution to their advantage, shooting the film on HDV tape lends a quality that’s been absent from cinema since 16mm celluloid went out of fashion some decades earlier,…

Vertigo Releasing have released the horror thriller, New Life, which is out now in the UK on all major Digital Platforms including to rent/buy on Amazon Prime Video. Written and directed by feature length debutant, John Rosman, New Life stars Sonya Walger (For All Mankind, Lost), Hayley Erin (Pretty Little Liars: Perfectionists & General Hospital) and Tony Amendola (Rebel Moon Pt I, Annabelle). Jess is a woman on the run, desperate to cross the Canadian border toescape her past. On her tail is Elsa, a resourceful agent, whose recent life-altering diagnosis leaves her one step behind. As their chase narrows to the mountains…

Arrow Video are proud to release the VOD premiere of the French macabre horror Pandemonium, the latest feature from filmmaker Quarxx (All the Gods in the Sky). The film made its world premiere at Neuchâtel and went on to screen at Fantasia, Frightfest, Fantasy FilmFest, Sitges, Grimmfest, Trieste and Screamfest and you can see it at home on ARROW with a host of brand new extras! Pandemonium is available now on all major VOD platforms, include Apple TV and Prime Video. Director Quarxx (All the Gods in the Sky) explores the peculiar, welcoming all those hungry for wonder, in Pandemonium, a unique cinematic…

Fabulous Films have released La Brea – The Final Journey on Blu-ray and DVD. At Fabulous Films, we aren’t just about cult classics from your childhood. We also have releases that are bang up to date. From this year in fact. Get us! We are soooo contemporary. Hey I’ll Snapchat you later about Baby Reindeer, once I’ve finished my bottle of Prime. Enjoy all 6 episodes from the third and final season of the hit NBC Universal series La Brea – The Final Journey – as the survivors stranded in the past, fight for one last chance to return home.…