Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

ROOM FOR RENT *** USA 2019 Dir: Tommy Stovall. 81 mins Lin Shaye has been stealing scenes in all sorts of movies for decades, though for horror fans she has made a remarkable transition from cameos in New Line Cinema movies like A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET to the unique position of leading lady in Hollywood’s lucrative INSIDIOUS franchise. Shaye has a deservedly complex leading role in this movie, which she co-produced (with INSIDIOUS composer Joseph Bishara on hand for the score) while portraying a lonely, seemingly vulnerable widow. She immediately earns our empathy as an elderly woman enduring the…

If you head to the Blood In The Snow Film Festival this year you will witness (Blood In The Snow Film Festival) history being made on the big screen as they show a film from Newfoundland. The Newfoundland short film “New Woman” will be playing the Blood In The Snow Film Festival in the EMERGING SCREAMS – SHORTS SHOWCASE on Sunday 24th November 2019. The short film is a gothic tale concerning a male pickpocket and a wealthy woman descending into a labyrinth of terror in 1888. This will be the first narrative film for director Benjamin Noah. …

THEY LIVE ***** USA 1988 Dir: John Carpenter. 95 mins Carpenter’s most enduring sci-fi movie is this frighteningly prescient Reagan-era political satire, following drifter Roddy Piper, who believes in America and is happy to follow the rules. He joins a working homeless community incorporating Carpenter regulars George “Buck” Flower and Peter Jason, who leads the subversives on a mission to expose the truth. Police helicopters offer constant Big Brother surveillance and dim-witted starlets dominate lowest-common-denominator television; a blind street preacher and the perceptive homeless are seemingly the only ones questioning the control of the rich and powerful. The poor are…

Indican Pictures will bring Anne-Sophie Dutoit’s BALLET BLANC to theatres, this November. A bloody horror film, Dutoit’s latest focuses on a young boy, left behind by his ballet troupe. Developed to be evil, this boy is now out on a reign of terror. Dutoit is one of youngest directors in the horror genre, with her first screenplay written at sixteen and her first feature shot at eighteen. This latest film is set to scorch screens across U.S. theatres from 8th November. Dutoit has brought her own experience, from the ballet world, to the screen. Working on the idea of a…

Arrow Video have released their schedule for November 2019 and we have details on the DVD, Blu-ray and dual format releases. Below you will find the November 2019 release schedule for U.K., U.S.A. and Canada releases. If you missed what Arrow Video released in October 2019 you can find all the details HERE. APPRENTICE TO MURDER Release Date: 5th November 2019 (U.S.A./Canada Release Only) Format: Blu-ray Directed by: Ralph L. Thomas WAS IT MAGIC, MURDER, OR MADNESS? In early twentieth-century Pennsylvania Dutch Country, young Billy Kelly (Chad Lowe, Highway to Hell) falls in with a charismatic “powwower” or…