Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

Founder and Editor in Chief of Horror Screams Video Vault

Small Town Monsters have debuted their first miniseries, Seth Breedlove’s ON THE TRAIL OF BIGFOOT. Shot throughout 2018, the six episode series was filmed in fourteen U.S. states and features over twenty interviews with witnesses, investigators, historians, and researchers on the American legend. ON THE TRAIL OF BIGFOOT walks viewers through the history of the Bigfoot phenomenon, starting with the earliest known reports of apelike creatures in the 1800s and bringing them all the way up to the modern day. Wearing the many hats of director, writer, producer, narrator and star, Seth Breedlove spent weeks out in the forested regions of…

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Sodom & Chimera productions are proud to announce that they have released the controversial FLESH OF THE VOID on to Vimeo. FLESH OF THE VOID first made its rounds in April 2017, when a vague teaser that was widely described as a mix of the video from The Ring and something you would find on the deep web, made its rounds in the horror community, leaving fans of the genre both fascinated as well as absolutely baffled. Flesh of the Void – Official Teaser (2017 – Horror) from Sodom & Chimera Productions on Vimeo. A second trailer was soon to…

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101 Films are proud to announce that they will be releasing two modern British classics on Blu-ray for the first time on Monday, 8th April, both directed by Dominic Brunt; the brutal crime thriller BAIT, and bloody zombie horror BEFORE DAWN. Both will feature brand new extras, and to make the releases extra special the first 100 copies of each have been signed by the filmmakers; BEFORE DAWN by director/star Dominic Brunt and star Joanne Mitchell, while copies of BAIT are also signed by Dominic and Joanne, along with star Victoria Smurfit. ***SIGNED BY DIRECTOR DOMINIC BRUNT AND STARS JOANNE MITCHELL AND…

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He can’t be kept a secret any longer. He’s smart, nice, liked by all. Why is he targeted for destruction? Daryl (Barret Oliver) is the kind of boy any youngster would love to be like – and any mother would want as her son. Fabulous Films will be bringing the classic 1985 family sci-fi feature D.A.R.Y.L. to Blu-ray for the first time in the UK. Synopsis: Daryl is a whiz at school, brilliant at computer games and sports- and even tidies his room! To his foster parents, he is the perfect kid- perhaps too perfect. What is Daryl’s secret? Why…

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SNAP **** USA 2016 Dir: Robyn August. 2 mins Rival Tides lead singer-turned-filmmaker Robyn August is emerging as a master of the cinema of short, sharp unease. In SNAP, he takes the lead role (and sports a nifty Jason Voorhees Crystal Lake T-shirt) as a guy rooting through a bunch of old family belongings and coming across an old Pentax camera. He takes a few photographs and is confronted with increasingly sinister sights through the lens. What follows is a superbly edited escalation of dread constructed around familiar tropes of J-horror, including the photography-based spookiness and a female spectre (played…

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