Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

In the mid-‘90s, Dario Argento approached a physically and professionally ailing Lucio Fulci to direct one final production, an over-the-top shocker about grisly murders at a Paris wax museum. But when Fulci passed away only weeks before filming began, Argento turned to Sergio Stivaletti – the FX genius on PHENOMENA, OPERA, DEMONS and CEMETARY MAN – to make his feature-directing debut. Original Grand Guignol director/performer Robert Hossein (RIFFIFI) and Aldo Massasso (CONTRABAND) star in what DVD Drive-In hails as “old-timey luridness married to state-of-the-art gore” – from a screenplay co-written by Fulci with cinematography by Sergio Salvati (ZOMBIE, THE BEYOND)…

The seaweed is certainly not always greener in this particular lake… THE MERMAID: LAKE OF THE DEAD begins with a mermaid falling in love with a human, but that’s where the similarities with Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale end, instead taking a terrifying twist as she instead aims to keep him underwater in her Kingdom of Death while his fiancé must overcome her fear of water in order to save his life. Creepy, haunting and packed with jump-scares, you’ll never feel safe to go back in the water. Visually stunning with gorgeous effects, the film explores the darker side of the…

BEYOND THE SKY *** USA 2018 Dir: Fulvio Sestito. 82 mins The recent wave of alien abduction films incorporating a found-footage / mockumentary element stretches back to theatrical releases like THE FOURTH KIND (2009), though this movie nods to the memorably harrowing FIRE IN THE SKY (1993) in its subject matter and its casting of that film’s real-life protagonist, Travis Walton, in a knowing cameo. Whereas most of these movies delay showing their cards for as long as possible to sustain spooky post-X FILES ambiguity, this offers full-blown CGI aliens and spaceships in its first scene. It then sets up…

SRS Cinema is excited to announce their first ever release from Mexico, the gore packed BLOOD FOR FLESH. Synopsis: A strange family relationship would be violated when a group of cannibals stalks the only woman in the family. Violent decisions turned into acts of torture and desires of pleasure. One by one until they break the moral family. The perfect triangle for a feast of incest, violence and pain. This NEVER RELEASED gore movie from Mexico is not for the faint of heart! Blood for flesh (Sangre para la carne) from SRS Cinema on Vimeo. BLOOD FOR FLESH is getting a…

More than a decade after the Spielberg blockbuster, a dream team of shock maestros – including producer-turned-director Fabrizio De Angelis (DR. BUTCHER M.D., EMANUELLE AND THE LAST CANNIBALS), screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti (BAY OF BLOOD, DEMONS), gore guru Giannetto De Rossi (ZOMBIE, THE BEYOND) and Oscar®-nominated composer Riz Ortolani (MONDO CANE, CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST) – created one of the most ridiculously entertaining JAWS rip-offs in ItaloSleaze history, KILLER CROCODILE. Richard Anthony Crenna (ROSWELL), Sherrie Rose (DEMON KNIGHT), Ennio Girolami (GREAT WHITE) and Hollywood legend Van Johnson (THE CAINE MUTINY) star in this crocsploitation classic now scanned in 2k from the original negative.…