Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

Game Of Thrones superstar Sophie Turner as you’ve never seen her before, as a high school Lolita tempting American Horror Story’s Dylan McDermott, in this stylish and mysterious rural noir. Sansa Stark ditches the braided hair and heavy robes for a bleach blonde look and cut off denims, as Game Of Thrones star Sophie Turner takes the title role of the gum-chewing, tattooed high school student who bewitches a small town loser in JOSIE. Turner is perfectly cast and irresistible as the girl whose arrival in a small town turns it upside down. American Horror Story’s Dylan McDermott is excellent…

AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS **** UK 2018 Dir: Johnny Kervorkian. 91 mins A decade after his elegiac Elephant & Castle council estate ghost story THE DISAPPEARED, director Johnny Kervorkian makes a welcome return with an apocalyptic horror film doubling as a suitably uncomfortable portrait of a typical British Christmas. While the rolling TV news reports on power surges and suspected terror attacks, estranged grown up son Sam Gittins returns home for festivities with a new girlfriend in tow (Neerja Naik) and then watches existing family grudges and tensions violently escalating when the whole house is inexplicably encased in impenetrable metal shutters.…

There’s something frighteningly fishy going on in Lisa Brühlmann’s shocking debut feature BLUE MY MIND released through Uncork’d Entertainment. An elegiac allegory accompanied by hauntingly visceral body horror, BLUE MY MIND is part Suspiria and part The Metamorphosis but largely incontestably unique. Luna Wedler and Zoë Pastelle Holthuizen headline a celebrated fantasy-drama about a young woman who faces an overwhelming transformation which calls her entire existence into question. Her body is changing radically, and despite desperate attempts to halt the process, she is soon forced to accept that nature is far more powerful than her. Synopsis: 15-year-old Mia and her parents move to…

Wild Eye Releasing has recently released DOOM ROOM, starring genre legend Debbie Rochon, and directed by Jon Keeyes (The Harrowing) to digital. Scripted by Keeyes and Carl Kirshner, the film also stars Nicholas Ball (TVs ”Red Dwarf”), Johanna Stanton, Hayden Tweedie (The Harrowing) and Matthew Tompkins (“Prison Break”). Synopsis: A woman wakes up locked in a small room with no memory of how she arrived there. Unable to escape, and tormented by a series of paranormal entities, she must uncover the riddle of who she is and how she got here. Wild Eye Releasing have released DOOM ROOM on VOD.

PARTY NIGHT ** U.S.A. 2017 Dir: Troy Escamilla 70 mins So many great slasher films are out there and for first time indie filmmakers its a genre which suits the modest budgets they have. With that in mind here is another slasher film which nods to the heyday of the 80’s slasher films boom, PARTY NIGHT. Deciding to ditch their prom night so they can spend what could be their final chance to be with each other, 6 friends head to one of the groups uncles cabin. Naturally it is secluded and is perfect for having sex, partying and getting…