Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

THE KILLING DEATH * Canada 2008 Dir: Ian Russell. 63 mins I mean. What can be said about THE KILLING DEATH — an ultra-low-budget horror movie inspired by Mel Brooks particular brand of humour, featuring bizzaro gross-out gags and a dead-eyed murderer just trying to make the perfect pizza. Rookie cop Jimmy (Geoff Trubiak) and his seasoned partner Frank (Jeremy Dangerfield) are trying to solve a series of murders where a piece (or chunk, or organ) of every victim is being taken by the killer. Phil (Neil Reamer) is an unassuming pizza delivery guy who’s been inspired by an ancient…

Grimmfest, one of the UK’s leading cult and genre film festivals, is in its 11th year. The festival will take place at the Odeon Great Northern cinema in Manchester, UK, from 3 – 6 October 2019. In total the festival will host 21 feature films and 19 short films, which includes 6 European premieres, 17 UK premieres, 2 English premieres and 15 Northern UK premieres. European Premieres include Audrey Cummings’ laconically brutal SHE NEVER DIED (the keenly awaited follow up to 2015 horror hit HE NEVER DIED), claustrophobic Argentinian thriller 4X4 and Australian WWII set creature feature, BLOOD VESSEL. UK…

THE CONJURING **** USA 2013 Dir: James Wan. 113 mins Released within weeks of the equally lucrative INSIDIOUS CHAPTER 2, this box office smash employs a definitive “Based On The True Story” title card and a suitably gaudy 70’s yellow font for the title itself, acknowledging its debt to that decade’s supernatural horror films. THE CONJURING takes as much from THE AMITYVILLE HORROR, THE EXORCIST and THE CHANGELING as it does from the true story, while sharing a creepy doll fetish with Wan’s commercial failure DEAD SILENCE, and, like INSIDIOUS, borrowing much from POLTERGEIST. In 1971, Lili Taylor and Ron…

Following a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2018, Dustin Mills Productions is proud to present the first teaser trailer for SLAUGHTERHOUSE SLUMBER PARTY. This teaser trailer is being released in advance of the movie’s fall/winter festival and convention run, with a premiere to be announced soon. This censored teaser is mostly safe for work, but in this case it’s still kind of not safe for work! A full trailer will be released closer to the film’s premiere, but for now check out the teaser below. Written and directed by Dustin Mills, the film features some familiar faces that fans of indie…

THE SIREN *** USA 2019 Dir: Perry Blackshear 80 mins Tom (Evan Dumouchel), takes some time away from his Christian duties by renting a house next to a lake. The owners warn him in a note to take care by the water as there have been a few drownings. He meets Al (MacLeod Andrews) who lives nearby and is grieving over his husband who was one who had drowned in the lake. Full of anger Al is convinced that his husband’s death was no accident and he speaks of finding the monster that did it. Not long after this Tom…