Author: Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins

CAMP DEATH III IN 2D! * Canada 2018 Dir: Matt Frame. 85 mins Camp Crystal Meph (yep, that’s the best joke in the movie) reopens as – to quote the irate owner – “a retard petting zoo” decades after a series of murders committed by scurvy-afflicted madman Johann Van Damme. Her face reattached after an earlier encounter with the bald, disfigured killer, a lone survivor returns to settle the score. This shrill, self-consciously wacky spoof – complete with gurning performances and sped-up action – runs out of workable FRIDAY THE 13TH gags early on, so follows the desperate example of…

Artsploitation has called upon the dark forces to release Argentinian genre maven Gonzalo Calzada’s latest scripture-based gore fest, LUCIFERINA. Calzada (Resurrection, The Clairvoyant’s Prayer) directs a visually explosive film where religion, innocence, repressed sexuality and evil build to a boil and spectacularly collide. He has screened the film at festivals around the world, including FrightFest London, Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival, Fantaspoa and Cinepolcalypse, where Luciferina took home the award for Best Sexorcism Scene. “Luciferina houses some tasty traditional gore effects and digital animated imagery to leave its genre audience satisfied, and a little uncomfortable.” -…

When people think of VHS-era SCREAM QUEENS three names come to mind: Linnea Quigley, Michelle Bauer and Brinke Stevens – the threesome of fear that sliced and seduced a generation of gorehounds and whose greatest hits can finally be seen in HD from the schlock-lovers at 88 Films! In this charming and chilling collection, addicts of excessive violence, gratuitous nudity and breathtaking bloodshed can rock out to the likes of DEADLY EMBRACE (1989) which highlights AIRWOLF’s main man Jan‑Michael Vincent as a hunky Beverly Hills husband with babes to spare. However, before long he is being stalked by a heartbroken…

TOXIC SCHLOCK ** UK 2017 Dir: Sam Mason-Bell & Tony Newton 81 mins A group of 3 eco-terrorists calling themselves United Lives Matter unleash a green ooze into the sea and then go on the run. They hide up in a beach house belonging to one of the groups estranged brother. Little do they know that the beach house now belongs to a cross dressing widower, his childlike adult daughter and leather clad, dog masked gimp son simply called Brother. Still they are allowed to lodge at the house for a nominal fee of course. They hear on the radio…

CONSPIRACY X ** UK 2018 Dir: Marina Akarepi, Britmic, Dustin Ferguson, Jason Impey, Kieran Johnston, Sam Mason-Bell, Martin W Payne, Noel J Rainford, Rob Ulitski, Michael J Epstein. 100 mins An anthology movie from the hugely prolific stable of producer / co-director / co-star Sam Mason-Bell, whose past flirtations with found footage include INDUSTRIAL ANIMALS. Jessica Hunt is hosting a documentary in search of answers to popular conspiracies, gathering with her crew and the aloof editor of “New Thinker” at the home of ex-military intelligence officer Martin W Payne, now a conspiracy theorist happy to confirm that we should all…