By Ben Bussey Happy new year everybody! So, 2016 is here – and with it, the seventh birthday of Brutal As Hell, which first went live all the way back on New Year’s Day 2009. As such, my customary end of year review is perhaps a little overdue, but I’ve found myself struggling with it […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi It’s that time of year again, when I put my memory to the test and realise, once I’ve finished, that I’ve left dozens of titles out of the running for my round-up of favourites of the year. It’s always going to be a subjective list, and almost certainly arbitrary – I admit […]
If you’ve had the pleasure of seeing recent documentary Electric Boogaloo: the Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, it’s feasible that, like myself, you may well have found yourself anxious to see these three movies. In many respects, this trilogy might well be the perfect embodiment of the Cannon Films ethos. The output of producers […]
By Quin For months now, I’ve been listening to Bret Easton Ellis prattle on and on about how he (and some of his filmmaker friends) believe 2015 was the worst year of all time for movies. For the record, he wasn’t too fond of 2014 either. He’s absolutely wrong about both years. But, I must […]
By Keri O’Shea My god, this year has flown by, and once again I find myself pondering what I most and least liked in the year which is death-rattling as I type – with the usual proviso that I haven’t even seen all of the films I was most interested to see, for the usual […]
By Keri O’Shea It’s perhaps something of a surprise that there’s a sequel to one of the most notorious horror flicks of the 80s, but nonetheless, after a hiatus of a few years, during which interim director Jörg Buttgereit made Der Todesking (another deeply morbid piece of work), Nekromantik got a second chapter. In fact, […]
By Ben Bussey Please believe me when I say I wish the words ‘no-budget indie horror’ were not all but synonymous with the words ‘painfully bad filmmaking.’ Occasionally we see the odd pocket-change, DV-shot production from an unknown cast and crew which is well-written, well-directed, inventive, energetic, entertaining, and when we do you’d best believe […]
By Ben Bussey Any way you look at it, Blumhouse Productions are one of the most fascinating brand names working in horror today. While they represent the most mainstream end of horror with the vast majority of its output bound for the multiplexes, they also place a significant emphasis on developing new, original properties from […]
By Ben Bussey Ask anyone to name a high-profile studio horror movie from the dawn of the 1980s with a big name cast based on a best selling novel, and odds are most of us will reply The Shining. However, when Warner Bros, Stanley Kubrick, Jack Nicholson and co were busy adapting Stephen King’s third […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi The promotional bluster for I Am Alone makes some quite grand claims which had rather the opposite effect on me than what I presume was intended. Rather than make me think, ‘oh wow, this film must be great!’, the claims that the filmmakers “reinvented the [found footage] subgenre of horror” made me […]
By Karolina Gruschka Released within just over a month of each other earlier this year in Japan, Attack on Titan Parts 1 and 2 are based on a popular Manga and Anime series of the same title. Originally unaware of this (I never have developed a thorough appetite for drawn formats of story telling), I […]