Witchfire is a fantasy first-person shooter from the creative leads behind Painkiller and Bulletstorm. The PC game is coming soon via the Epic Games store. We’ve had our eye on this one for a while now! Developer and publisher, The Astronauts, recently released some new gameplay footage from the game that shows …
Read More »New Trailers For Mark Savage’s Gritty Action Flick, ‘Bring Him Back Dead’
Anyone who’s read my review of Mark Savage’s film, Painkiller (2021), knows how much I love that film. Bringing to light the opioid crisis and combining it with a passionate, pissed off avenger who will do anything to try and quell the grief of his daughter’s passing was exactly what …
Read More »PopHorror Writers’ Favorite Horror Movies And TV Series 2021
It’s always a bit surprising to look back and realize how many genre movies and TV series you’ve managed to squeeze in over the past year. This is especially true in 2021, where nothing was normal and time was fluid. Even the PopHorror writers have fallen victim to this blip …
Read More »Interview With ‘Painkiller’ Filmmaker Mark Savage
Painkiller (read our review here), the new, deeply personal vigilante thriller, directed by Mark Savage and written by Savage and Tom Parnell, was released on DVD and VOD May 4, 2021. The revenge flick, an unofficial sequel to the writers’ previous Stressed to Kill, is about a broken father working through …
Read More »Interview With ‘Painkiller’ Actor Bill Oberst, Jr. And Scriptwriter Tom Parnell: The Opioid Epidemic
When I first heard about the film, Painkiller, I became almost obsessed with seeing it. Not only does it star one of my favorite people on this planet, Bill Oberst, Jr., but it is also about a subject that I am extremely passionate about—the current opioid epidemic. Sure, it’s a …
Read More »Bill Oberst, Jr. Takes On The Opioid Crisis in Mark Savage’s ‘Painkiller’ (2021) – Movie Review
The opioid crisis. We’ve heard about it. We’ve read news articles about it. We may even have been affected by it. But what can we do about it? Grieving father Bill Johnson (Circus Of The Dead’s Bill Oberst, Jr.) has an idea about that in Mark Savage’s 2021 film, Painkiller. …
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