By Keri O’Shea The Great Beast – English occultist Aleister Crowley – has for many years enjoyed an uneasy flirtation with popular culture. He’s appeared on the cover of a Beatles album, which ought to suffice to substantiate the first sentence – he’s inspired numerous homages in poetry and literature, but being such a problematic […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi I confess that The Skull is a Cushing/Lee collaboration I knew very little about before receiving the screener of Eureka’s gorgeous new Blu-ray release for review. It’s an Amicus film that looks a lot like a Hammer film, boasting Freddie Francis at the helm, and Cushing and Lee in an astonishingly starry […]
By Svetlana Fedotov It’s with a heavy heart and a tear in my eye that I announce that I am leaving Brutal as Hell. I have been offered a writing gig with Shock ‘til You Drop and will start writing for them, along with my weekly contribution to Fangoria’s website. I’ve had an unbelievable blast […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi We Are Still Here is Ted Geoghegan’s directorial debut and it’s a film that demonstrates some considerable strengths. It’s clear that Geoghegan’s a man with respect for the horror genre as the film offers a haunted house narrative with a degree of intelligence and reverence that it doesn’t always receive. Anne (Barbara […]
By Ben Bussey It’s October, which means one thing: Halloween season, baby. In honour of every horror fan’s favourite holiday, we introduce BAH’s new month-long thread, Trick Or Treat. The premise is simple: we’ll be looking at a whole bunch of horror movies set at Halloween, and after careful consideration asking whether it’s a trick […]
Attention, any and all filmmakers contemplating making a shark movie. Here are some key points to consider. How much money do you have? Is the budget there to create believable shark effects and attack sequences? If not, do you have any directorial tricks up your sleeve to convey suspense without convincing creature work? Or failing […]
By Tristan Bishop When we think of genre film from Australia we tend to think of arid outback conditions and the brutal ways of living they can engender – a long tradition of films, from Nicholas Roeg’s Walkabout (1970) to Russell Mulcahy’s Razorback (1984), from Mad Max to Wolf Creek, film-makers have used the huge […]
By Ben Bussey There was a time when I considered Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City my absolute favourite film of the 2000s. I’m no longer quite that fond of it, but I do still appreciate its heightened comic book noir aesthetic, its brash balls-out masculinity, and its effortless sense of cool which has […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi A lone man, Stanley (Mark Lewis Jones), works diligently at a well near his secluded property. He hears the sound of a car horn, and following it, finds a crashed car. He finds a young couple at the vehicle, which is part-submerged in the nearby river: the defensive Iwan (Dyfan Dwyfor) and […]
By Keri O’Shea If I’m honest, when I got offered the chance to review a film called ‘The Killage’, a certain amount of devilment made it seem like a good idea. Devilment, and who knows – maybe even a little bit of optimism. We get a lot of DVD screeners sent through to us, many […]
By Keri O’Shea As horror fans, we’re aware of the fact that any wooden structure even vaguely cabin-like in nature will necessarily be a dangerous place, prone to occult infestations, malevolent locals and of course killers – so it’s hard not to assume that whatever Jack is making in his workshop, it’ll be for no […]