Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

Founder and Editor in Chief of Horror Screams Video Vault

From writer/director Peter Hearn comes SCRAWL, a terrifying new motion picture experience eaturing screen superstar Daisy Ridley (STAR WARS, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS), now available from Wild Eye Releasing. Synopsis: Simon Goodman (Liam Hughes) is a 16-year boy living in a rundown seaside town. With his best friend Joe Harper (Joe Daly), they create a comic book called SCRAWL as a way to escape their reality, gain some notoriety and more importantly pick up girls. Annie Williams (Annabelle Le Gresley), a girl who hides behind her camera and cannot forget the past gets wrapped up in the boys new…

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Dee Wallace (E.T., CUJO, THE HOWLING) stars in DOLLS, a new supernatural thriller from first-time feature director Cuyle Carvin that will be released on DVD and VOD in the U.S. this July. DOLLS concerns a struggling children’s book author and his rebellious teenage daughter who move into a house they’ve inherited and find mysterious dolls in the attic.  They soon learn that the dolls have a sinister — and deadly — past. The screenplay is by Justin Hawkins & Josh Hawkins, with Jeff Miller (OUIJA HOUSE, THE TOYBOX) also contributing to the story. Wallace plays a neighbour who knows…

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From the director of THE REDWOOD MASSACRE and GHOSTS OF DARKNESS comes THE DARK WITHIN, a spine-chilling new horror experience from award-winning director David Ryan Keith. THE DARK WITHIN concerns a disturbed man with unknown psychic abilities who tries to unravel the mystery of his parent’s disappearance while battling his own demons. Paul Flannery (Ghosts of Darkness), Kendra Carelli (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, “Maid to Order”), and Stephanie Lynn Styles (Check Point) star in a Clear Focus Movies Ltd production. THE DARK WITHIN arrives on DVD and VOD 9th July from Uncork’d Entertainment.

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THE DESTROYER ** USA 2017 Dir: Alexander Henderson 11 mins A fairly surreal chiller about a man that blames his girlfriend for holding him back in his career. He wants to end things but maybe not quite to the extreme that it did or didn’t if that makes any sense?! This is a bit of a confusing one and not really in a good way. The dialogue is somehow off and it plays out in a series of bizarre conversations that don’t seem to make much sense. Carl Gilliard makes an appearance as a very sweary businessman who’s advice to…

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Samuel Goldwyn Films have announced that the company has acquired North American rights to the horror movie PLAY OR DIE, directed by Jacques Kluger. The film stars Charley Palmer (DUNKIRK), Roxane Mesquida (NOW APOCALYPSE), Marie Zabukovec (INTERRAIL), Thomas Mustin (RAW), and Igor Van Dessel (RACER AND THE JAILBIRD). Synopsis: Lucas and Chloe, two passionate gamers, decide to participate to Paranoia, a very exclusive escape game. After solving a first riddle, they make it to the location of the finale in an abandoned mental hospital, lost in a frightening forest. There, four other participants are waiting on them. They soon realize…

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