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To Reveal a Serial Killer,

Let me say from the start that thriller fans are in for a treat from this intense story penned by writer, director, actor Steven Murphy (Relentless, Popeye’s Revenge, Doorways), and editor James Solly (Manhunt, Snake Hotel). And say hello to directors the Solly Brothers (Charles (Relentless), James), once again their collaboration brings us a cracking story that will have you rooted to your seat throughout this intense troubling story.

It’s Dark, It’s Gritty, and very Disturbing.

The Embankment in London is dark and there is a deadly prowler on the streets. Detectives John (Steven Murphy) and Lenny (Ryan David Harston, Talamasca: The Secret Order, Mask of the Devil) are on the streets checking out a hunch, as they spot a lone woman who has just started to be followed by a tall man. John starts following him as Lenny sets off across town to the other end of the path. But as the potential victim and her pursuer turn into an underpass, our duo pounce at either end, but they have disappeared.

They are after a serial killer, Sanson (Tim Faraday, Legend, Snatch) a killer who has been released on a technicality, and he is out to carry on his sick and twisted killing spree of nuclear families.

You will be judged, You will be cleansed.

Sanson has murder on his mind and finds an excuse to visit a co-worker Ben and his wife Charlotte and their two kids. When John and Lenny arrive at the scene the parents have been hung, and the kids have been beheaded. This killer is sick and twisted. It is only later that when forensic officer Karen (Ayvianna Snow, Ripper’s Revenge, De De Pyaar De) informs them that an African Cabbar bean was found inside the child’s stomach, meaning that they were fully conscious but unable to move when they were dispatched.

To John the evidence doesn’t fit the crime, as it all conveniently points to Sanson, but John believes the M.O. has changed, and he believes this is because someone has been tampering with the evidence.

I got good at making promises I can’t keep.

This causes him to re-investigate all the evidence in his whole ‘room of weird’ connections. This takes him down a dark path as he develops agoraphobia, leading to stress with his wife Julie (Emma Stacey, Scopophobia) and his two kids. He keeps getting warnings from his Captain (Russell Biles, The Apocalypse Box) to arrest Sanson, but John now believes that this is an inside job and that the relationship he has with media guru Fandango (Sean Cronin, Our Kid, We Still Steal the Old Way) is very dodgy. As he and Lenny investigate more sites John is convinced that a Satanic Cult is to blame for these new murders, and they do not match the messy murders of Sanson.

SkullHunter will have you on the edge of your seat as all this murder is revealed, and John spirals down a very dark hole. Plus it is great to see our on-screen friend Jon-Paul Gates (London Bridge is Falling Down: Build it up!, The Haunted Studio) as John’s young father.

SkullHunter is available on Amazon Prime