Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

Founder and Editor in Chief of Horror Screams Video Vault

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.…

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Mandao Films has recently announced their screening MANDAO OF THE DEAD at the Comic Con International Film Festival 2019. The festival is part of the San Diego Comic Con. “Mandao of the Dead is a true indie horror with colorful, wildly quirky characters […] sure to be a cult favorite” – Nightmare on Film Street Synopsis: The unambitious Jay Mandao lives frugally off his late father’s cereal royalties. He wants nothing more than to live in solitude, but is duped into taking in his adult nephew-in-law, Jackson. As Halloween approaches, Jay begins having odd dreams, and comes to find that he…

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Death, it happens to all of us eventually, but the nurses in DEATH CARE speed up the process. DEATH CARE is a new movie project from HM&M Films, Rad Entertainment & Quattro Venti Scott Productions. The film is written by Cameron Scott and Tom Komisar and is based on real life experiences that Cameron Scott saw himself, revealing the dark side of the Health care system. In the film a gang of Home Health Care Nurses are dispatched to terminate undesirable health care patients. The film stars Lynn Lowry (I DRINK YOUR BLOOD), Maria Olsen (PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3), Linnea Quigley (THE RETURN…

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Recently released courtesy of iHorror is the 2017 short Indie horror film FRIED BARRY from director Ryan Kruger and producer James Williamson. Synopsis: Fried Barry is heroin junkie, that spends his days in a abandoned building walking around tripping from his latest hit, going through his ups and downs and reliving his old memories. Being that the short film has been such a success with 57 official selections and 12 awards at film festivals across the world it was only a matter of time that the short would become a full blown feature. And as it is FRIED BARRY the…

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Summer holidays can be deadly in the entertainingly off kilter BLOOD PARADISE. This English-language, filmed-in-Swedish horror-thriller from first-time producer-director Andréa Winter and Patrick von Barkenberg will be released on DVD, Blu-ray (with extras) and on a selection of VOD platforms this July by Artsploitation Films. ‘Entertainment For A Living’ said the film is: “Explosively erotic…an exciting and claustrophobic Gothic fun ride.” Synopsis: Reeling after her latest novel flops, best-selling crime writer Robin Richards (Andréa Winter) is sent by her publisher to the Swedish countryside to regain inspiration. Instead of relaxation, she comes across an assortment of peculiar and possibly dangerous…

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