Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

GHASTLIES * Canada 2016 Dir: Brett Kelly. 75 mins After a prologue featuring a sacrificial ritual interrupted by an alien invasion, a quartet of ageing sorority sisters (average age: 35) prepare for a weekend getaway to a cabin in the woods. The characters are familiar archetypes (a bitchy one, a dorky one, etc.) and one is introduced performing aerobics accompanied by music on a cassette player. The girls banter about periods, boys and beach bodies, some dopey guys show up and a “found” video tape warns about aliens preparing to take over the planet “just like they said in sci-fi…

A man of the cloth turns Jurassic in Wild Eye Releasing’s THE VELOCIPASTOR – coming this August to DVD and Digital! THE VELOCIPASTOR was directed by Brendan Steere and stars Gregory James Cohan, Alyssa Kempinski, Daniel Steere, Yang Jiechang, Jesse Turits, Fernando Pacheco de Castro and Aurelio Voltaire. Synopsis: After a devastating family tragedy, a priest travels to China to find deeper spirituality, but instead is endowed with an ancient ability that allows him to turn into a dinosaur. At first, he is horrified by his newfound superpower, but a local prostitute convinces him to use his newfound gift to…

From the people who bring you We Belong Dead magazine (a recommended read!) comes a new book, Into the Velvet Darkness – A Celebration of Vincent Price. As the title suggests this book is all about Vincent Price. The book will be limited and is available as a softcover and hardback so make sure you pick the correct one when your order. To order your copy of Into the Velvet Darkness – A Celebration of Vincent Price go via the link below: Into the Velvet Darkness – A Celebration of Vincent Price

Signature Entertainment proudly announces 10 films for FrightFest 2019 which takes place in London from 22nd – 26th August at Cineworld Leicester Square and The Prince Charles Cinema. The impressive spread of scarers includes 5 Signature Entertainment releases and 5 titles Signature will release under the FrightFest Presents (“FFP”) banner in conjunction with the festival’s team. Before those releases, all the films can be seen first at the festival. These include the inventive and gory Opening Film COME TO DADDY starring Elijah Wood and powerful Closing Film A GOOD WOMAN IS HARD TO FIND which is a brilliant and shocking…

BRIGHTBURN **** USA 2019 Dir: David Yarovesky. 90 mins Produced by James Gunn (whose regular muse Michael Rooker cameos at the very end) and written by Brian & Mark Gunn, this horrific inversion of SUPERMAN – named after the small town in which it unfolds – has a loving, childless couple (David Denman, Elizabeteh Banks) bringing up an alien baby who landed near their home. When puberty kicks in, the kid (Jackson A Dunn, balancing dashes of humanity with understated arrogance) starts employing his other-worldly powers to exact violent revenge on those who tick him off – displaying super-strength and…