Review by Dustin Hall The Purge: Anarchy is one of those rare sequels which, at least to my mind, we can pretty much universally agree is better than the first film. Set in the open world of the new Founding Fathers’ America, it escapes the confines of the home invasion motif in which the first […]
By Keri O’Shea Planet of the Apes remains one of my favourite films, a post-apocalyptic movie which only reveals itself as such in its closing reels. It’s a cinematic moment which retains a hell of a lot of its original impact too, even though it’s now familiar enough for us to poke fun at (Family […]
By Tristan Bishop You wait for one found footage movie about a cult and then two come along together. Three, actually, if you count one of the episodes of V/H/S 2. It seems like an odd subgenre to suddenly blossom – horror films about cults have been surprisingly thin on the ground until now, with […]
By Keri O’Shea Having first seem Axelle Carolyn’s short film The Last Post at the Abertoir horror film festival a few years back, I was excited to see where her career would go next; I enjoyed The Last Post, particularly for the way it joined its themes of grief and salvation to its supernatural elements […]
By Keri O’Shea Editor’s note: this editorial discusses plot elements in detail and as such contains spoilers. One of the last of the Brutal As Hell team to get to see Axelle Carolyn’s most recent film, the feature-length Soulmate (2013), it had been my intention to just write a straightforward review – side-stepping the censorship […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife Watching horror screeners can be a bit of a thankless task, especially when they are little known straight-to-DVD titles, so it was a relief to find Across the River to be actually quite good. It would be fair to say that Lorenzo Bianchini’s film won’t be for everyone, as it’s infuriatingly […]
Interview conducted by Ben Bussey As regular BAH readers may have noticed, one of my favourite films of 2014 thus far has been Daniel Armstrong’s MurderDrome. A light-hearted, low-budget comedy horror set in the world of roller derby, it aims to capture a very specific niche audience and, in my estimation, does a fine job […]
Review by Quin For a while now, I’ve had this idea that there should be an updated live-action reimagining of the classic Famous Studios cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost. Just completely forget that they already tried it in the 90s with the movie starring Christina Ricci – my version would have no cute CGI cartoony […]
By Svetlana Fedotov After a long wait through delays, notices, and wishing-upon-stars, the newest Goon mini-series has finally arrived on a pillow of stardust and dreams into the eager hands of fans across the world. Titled Occasion of Revenge, this newest addition features everyone’s favorite bad boy twosome, Goon and Frankie, as they stomp their […]
By Keri O’Shea For many horror fans who first came into contact with Edgar Allan Poe via an illustrated volume, it’s likely that, in their minds, Poe’s fiction is forever associated with one artist in particular. Other artists before and after the illustrator in question have turned their hand to Poe, not least the great […]
By Matt Harries When I consider the word ‘horror’ in cinematic terms, I think almost instantly of Marlon Brando’s Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. “The horror! The horror!”, his utterance perhaps an expression of a kind of resigned revulsion at the depths of the human condition, witnessed by and yet simultaneously perpetuated by him. Regarding […]