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. […]
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 […]