Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

Founder and Editor in Chief of Horror Screams Video Vault

‘A chilly antler-strewn mystery…heavy on atmosphere and menace’ – Financial Times TV phenomenon The Bridge has inspired numerous remakes across the globe and heralded a new dawn of television. Now from the award-winning makers of hit drama The Dark comes a thrilling new German-Austrian spin that takes the initial premise to the brand-new gripping heights of DER PASS. This Sky Original garnered exceptional viewing figures when it premiered in Germany, earning critical acclaim and now it’s set to take the UK by storm as it arrives on DVD and digital from Acorn Media International following its premiere on Sky Atlantic…

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Andrea Chen, Garr Long, and Kevin Breznahan star opposite Trevor Long in an Owen Long film SEEDS, written by Steven Weisman, out this September from Dark Star Pictures and Uncork’d Entertainment. Starring Trevor Long, star of Netflix drama Ozark, which was this week nominated for 9 Emmy Awards, director Owen Long’s SEEDS is a gothic horror about a man haunted by his dark past while pursuing some self-care on the New England coast. Synopsis: After a night of debauchery spirals out of control, Marcus retreats to his family home along the New England coast. Solitude is disturbed when his…

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From the producers of John Wick and Split comes NIGHT HUNTER directed by David Raymond and starring Henry Cavill (Mission Impossible – Fallout, Justice League), Ben Kingsley (Gandhi, Sexy Beast), Alexandra Daddario (Baywatch, True Detective), Stanley Tucci (The Hunger Games franchise), Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights), Nathan Fillion (Serenity) and Brendan Fletcher (Braven, Rampage). Combining the tense, psychological investigation of killer classics such as Silence of the Lambs and Zodiac with fast-paced twists, turns and edge-of-your-seat action, NIGHT HUNTER is one of 2019’s darkest and most daring thrillers. Synopsis: On the hunt for an elusive serial rapist and murderer,…

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TERROR IN THE SKIES *** USA 2019 Dir: Seth Breedlove. 67 mins Ohio-based filmmaker / cryptozoologist Seth Breedlove has spent the last few years making slick independent documentaries for his production outfit Small Town Monsters about famous and less familiar paranormal encounters, from THE BOGGY CREEK MONSTER and THE MOTHMAN OF POINT PLEASANT to THE BEAST OF WHITEHALL and, more recently, the mini-series ON THE TRAIL OF BIGFOOT. This one is a companion piece to MOTHMAN, analysing a series of sightings of mysterious flying creatures around IIlinois, starting with the Point Pleasant-like whisperings of a “Chicago Mothman” in 2017. Assorted…

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PROSPECT *** USA / Canada 2018 Dir: Christopher Caldwell, Zeek Earl. 110 mins Co-writing / directing team Caldwell and Earl adapt their 2014 short film for this ambitious, thoughtful – if ponderous – sci-fi / western hybrid with an excellent central performance from Sophie Thatcher (young Regan in THE EXORCIST TV series) as a teenage girl travelling to a remote moon forest with her dad (Jay Duplass) and sharing elegiac anecdotes of her birth and her mother. In dire need of money, they get a whiff of a lucrative prospect in harvesting rare crystals, but Dad sees the chance for…

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