By Ben Bussey Oh dear, 2016 really isn’t off to the best start for me. Here we are almost one whole month into the year, I’m only my second new release review, and it’s another tedious, uninventive, unendearing, badly executed, been-there done-that, no-budget, would-be neo-retro slasher snoozefest. Well, okay, credit where it’s due, by comparison […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi The X-Files has been a big part of my life for as long as I can remember. Everyone has that handful of films or TV shows that just mean something above others, and The X-Files is one of mine. I’ve already had two ‘waves’ of my Philedom, but it’s not something that’s […]
Let’s get one thing straight before we start here: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is absolutely ‘NOT A SEQUEL TO VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. IT IS WHOLLY ORIGINAL…’ and so continues the on-screen legend as the earliest frames of the latter movie start to roll. Are we convinced? Well, Valley of the Dolls – […]
By Tristan Bishop Ladies and gentlemen, it’s retitle time again! This one originally went by the name Another – in fact it played at Frightfest 2014 until that very title – but now it has resurfaced under the far more exploitable title of Mark Of The Witch (not to be confused with the 1970 witchcraft […]
By Keri O’Shea if genre film has taught us anything (and I think you’ll agree, it has) then we know that death needn’t be the end for that whole boy-meets-girl thing. It’s happened for years on our screens in a variety of different ways, from Return of the Living Dead III through to the rather […]
How does a film like Love end up getting reviewed on a site like Brutal As Hell? When it’s directed by arch-provocateur and master of brutality Gaspar Noé. It’s fair to say from the outset, though, that Love is indeed a film about its title – this isn’t Noe in brutality mode. He’s said so […]
By Ben Bussey Oh joy, time to play that oh-so painfully over-familiar tune once again. Seems like every damn time I dare to have a little faith and imagine that a newly released no-budget indie horror movie with a nicely trashy premise might actually deliver the goods, I give it a chance and – lo […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi Anthony DiBlasi is a name I’ve often heard when people talk about decent indie horror filmmaking, but I’ve not managed to see any of his previous films (Dread, Cassadaga) before Last Shift. I had few expectations approaching the film then, either positive or negative, and it seems having watched the film, I […]
By Guest Contributor Marc Lissenburg The above exasperating question was often put to horror fans around 20 years ago, when proudly displaying the latest additions to their film collections. The query arose due to less informed peers confusing analogue vinyl music (‘records’ as they were commonly known) with a groundbreaking digital development in domestic movie […]
By Tristan Bishop Director Massimo Dallamano is generally remembered as one of the also-rans of Italian genre cinema; one of the legion of hack directors who flitted from spaghetti westerns to gialli to police thrillers, to whatever else selling well abroad that particular week, but taking a look back over his filmography it’s obvious that […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi 70s Monster Memories is a monster book itself – at 408 pages long, editor Eric McNaughton has gathered together short chapters from a whopping 53 contributors. As you may recognise, McNaughton is editor of the long-running We Belong Dead magazine, and there are many familiar names among the contributors to this book. […]