Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

ASYLUM **** UK 1972 Dir: Roy Ward Baker. 88 mins Played darker and more for straight chills than most of Amicus’ horror anthologies, this stand-out entry from the studio is rich with writer Robert Bloch’s malevolent sense of humour. The wraparound story – later cloned for the non-Amicus TALES THAT WITNESS MADNESS – follows Robert Powell’s film-long search for the elusive “Dr. Starr”, a staff member at Dunsmore Asylum who is now apparently a patient within the same institution. Powell’s chats with other patients and his final discovery frame the four individual stories that follow. “Frozen Fear” echoes Bloch’s PSYCHO…

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Fans of Hex Studios will recognise the Owlman as the feathered villain of their movies LORD OF TEARS and THE BLACK GLOVES. Alongside his roles in these cult horror favourites, the Owlman has made quite a name for himself in a series of viral prank videos, the latest of which features unsuspecting members of the public being lured to an old church where the owl-headed menace lies in wait. Among the Owlman’s new batch of victims are a pizza-delivery man, a plumber, and most hilarious of all, a children’s clown who arrives to find that he’s the only one invited…

A new double-DVD release in the highly regarded series exploring the world of TV’s Doctor Who in what will build into a complete work on The Doctors. • This is the definitive set of interviews with the team who brought the Paul McGann era of Doctor Who to life. • These six documentaries are the best in-depth interviews with Paul McGann (the Eighth Doctor), Daphne Ashbrook (Grace Holloway), Yee Jee Tso (Chang Lee), Eric Roberts (The Master), Philip Segal (Producer)and Geoffrey Sax (Director) ever undertaken. • Presented by Sophie Aldred, Robert Dick and the voice of the Daleks Nicholas…

THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD **** UK 1971 Dir: Peter Duffell. 97 mins Despite the title (director Duffell favoured DEATH AND THE MAIDEN), this is an unfashionably bloodless 1970 horror film and also one of Amicus’ best anthologies. Robert Bloch’s script is ripe with self-referential humour, beginning with the framing story in which an estate agent named Mr. Stoker (John Bryans) sets up the four tales to come as he recalls the horrors that befell past tenants of an isolated old country house. “Method For Murder” is an EC Comics-style twisting mystery suggesting Bloch had the same professional fears and…