Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

TERROR 5 *** Argentina 2016 Dir: Sebastian Rotstein, Federico Rotstein. 78 mins The mass casualty collapse of a Buenos Aires construction site causes public unrest as Congress thrash it out, the company CEO denies liability and 24/7 news coverage stirs up resentment and anger. Against this backdrop of potential societal collapse, this sharp-looking anthology movie unravels inter-linking individual stories. In the first, naïve young virgin Augusto Alvarez is drawn into a secret, teacher-punishing society for intelligent, disgruntled millennials thanks to the intervention of a confident, sexually active classmate (Lu Grasso). This neat spin on the torture movie leads into a…

DROWNING ECHO * USA 2019 Dir: Georges Padey 103 mins DROWNING ECHO takes a stupid, fun premise (a haunted pool) and turns it into an overcomplicated, over-long movie with a meandering plot and almost complete lack of tension or scares. Sara (Itziar Martinez) is visiting her childhood friend Will (Sean Ormond) at his near-vacant apartment complex in Florida. She meets his neighbours Alex (Raul Walder), Zac (Dennis Mencia), and Kate (Josephine Phoenix) and learns Will’s girlfriend (Natalie Blackman) went to Greece for work. During their BBQ/pool party, Sara begins to have strange experiences with the pool—finding herself suddenly submerged in…

Fright-Rags couldn’t let Friday the 13th pass by without new horror movie merchandise. The company’s latest threads come from 3 FROM HELL, CREEPSHOW, and HAUNT. Fright-Rags commemorates the release of Rob Zombie’s 3 FROM HELL – in theaters in U.S.A. for 3 nights only on 16th-18th September  – with four tees from the highly-anticipated sequel to THE DEVIL’S REJECTS. The evil returns with official artwork and original designs. Fright-Rags’ CREEPSHOW apparel is the most fun you’ll ever have being scared. The line includes three T-shirts and an enamel pin from Shudder’s reboot of George A. Romero and Stephen King’s classic…

MVD ENTERTAINMENT GROUP and RUE MORGUE have teamed up to launch the MIDNIGHT MOVIE SOCIETY, a curated Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) service specializing in Extreme Underground, Taboo and Cult Horror movies. Now genre fans can gain access to a film library of shocking underground, outrageous gore, creature features, cult classics and much more. Those with a taste for the weirdest and wildest reaches of genre cinema will not be disappointed! “The bigger platforms are catering to the masses and have gone puritanical in many cases, making it very difficult for filmmakers to reach their audience,” says Ed Seaman, C.O.O.…

On 15th November 2019, Lupita Nyong’o, fresh from the success of Jordan Peele’s US, returns to the screens in another brilliantly inventive and fantastically entertaining horror comedy, LITTLE MONSTERS – but this time with laughs and musical numbers! Also starring Josh Gad (Olaf from Frozen) and Alexander England (ALIEN: COVENANT), this is the funniest zombie horror since SHAUN OF THE DEAD, bolstered by a knowing self-awareness and an uproarious script. Synopsis: Little Monsters follows Dave (Alexander England), as washed-up musician who volunteers to chaperone his nephew’s kindergarten class field trip after taking a serious liking to the fearless schoolteacher,…