Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

Tony Newton has been very productive as of late with not only the release of the film VIRUS OF THE DEAD, but also two new books, VHS NASTY: The Essential Guide Book to Video Nasties and Horror Movie Poetry (further details on both books below). Not only that but the upcoming release of VHS NASTY, part 3 in the infamous cult VHS doc series VHS Lives. In the early 1980’s, VCR players were in every house, but a legendary cult following developed during the VHS era like no other, those that loved The Video Nasty! Yes kids, with video stores…

ALIEN PARTY CRASHERS (a.k.a. Canaries) ** UK 2017 Dir: Peter Stray 84 mins Alien abductions have been happening around the world for decades. Teams in America and the UK have been documenting these mysterious disappearances so they can trace them if they ever turn up again. When one of these missing persons is discovered dead after a freak storm many years later they take that to mean that the aliens are finally executing their invasion. For some unknown reason they choose to begin their invasion in the quiet town of Lower Cwmtwrch in Wales on New Years Eve 2015, totally…

THE BLACKOUT EXPERIMENTS (a.k.a. Blackout) *** USA 2016 Dir: Rich Fox 78 mins THE BLACKOUT EXPERIMENTS is a documentary by Rich Fox that follows troubled individuals who found themselves drawn to Blackout- an immersive horror experience which pushes its participants to their own personal limits for better or for worse. Paranoia echoes throughout this film and the lines between reality and fantasy blur as you struggle to decide what you make of the people drawn to the Blackout experience and the elusive figures who dreamt it up. The documentary has an almost inverted narrative style and resists opening with explanations…

Produced and directed by 5 independent french filmmakers, NECROLOGIES is a micro-budget horror / fantastic feature. It was made as an homage to 1980’s anthology movies like CREEPSHOW or TALES FROM THE CRYPT. There are many different styles in this movie, so you can expect anything! Some pieces are frightening, others are comedic, you can be thrilled, scared or amused. NECROLOGIES stars Jean-Claude Dreyfus, who starred in movies like DELICATESSEN and THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN. Scream Queen Icon Linnea Quigley also has a part in one of the segments. Synopsis: One night, a horror-movie fan (Alexis Wawerka) sneaks…

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…