By Ben Bussey All it takes is one memorable moment. I’ve no doubt I would have no recollection of the original 1990 airing of BBC miniseries The Green Man were it not for having inadvertently caught the opening scene of the first episode – and being left profoundly shocked and haunted by it. I would […]
By Ben Bussey Talk about the early days of Hammer Horror, and we all know the usual suspects: 1955’s Quatermass XPeriment paved the way, 1957’s The Curse of Frankenstein blew the doors open, 1958’s Dracula proved they were here to stay. However, one film that is rather less well-remembered – indeed, one film which I […]
By Svetlana Fedotov She is a symbol of unyielding impulse, a gun-toting bad-ass, and one terrible pun after the other. She’s the pro-feminist to your anti-feminist and the anti-feminist to your pro-feminist. She is a sex symbol, a wild child, an icon; women want to be like her and men name their kids after her […]
By Keri O’Shea Although he’s clearly been working hard in his other capacity as a prosthetics specialist, I had been wondering what had happened to Paul Hyett: director since he brought us that mesmerisingly grim movie The Seasoning House back in 2012, which screened at that year’s Frightfest. Well, he’s back in a directorial capacity […]
By Ben Bussey This is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to write. On behalf of all of us at Brutal As Hell, I am devastated to announce that Stephanie Scaife, one of our longest-serving writers, committed suicide last Wednesday. Steph began writing for BAH in 2010. The first thing she wrote for us, unless […]
By Keri O’Shea Almost the moment the opening credits roll on Jon ‘Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer’ Knautz’s newest film, Goddess of Love, we can see that our female lead, Venus (Alexis Kendra) is something of a culture vulture. Learning to speak French? Check. Ballet? Check. Piano, yep; drug addiction which makes her look intermittently wasted […]
By Stephanie Scaife Click here to read part one of Steph’s FrightFest 2015 report. Abner Pastoll’s Road Games was a pleasant surprise, an interesting UK/French production that is not (as I’d thought) a remake of the 1981 Jamie Lee Curtis film of the same name. Instead Road Games is about Jack (Andrew Simpson), an English […]
By Tristan Bishop I’ve been a fan of Italian genre cinema for around 25 years – every since I caught a TV showing of Mario Bava’s Black Sunday as an impressionable youth – and as such I tend to believe I’ve seen most of the best that the Italian golden age (around 1960-1986) has to […]
By Svetlana Fedotov Cartoon Network has always been known for innovative, fun, and fantastical cartoons that stay true to the epithet “all-ages.” From front-runners Adventure Time and Steven Universe, to the low-flying magical realism of Regular Show, they have been steadily pumping out cartoons that both adults and children can watch together. In the week […]
By Stephanie Scaife Since I started attending FrightFest all the way back in 2003, it’s always been a real mixed bag – for all the awful to middling films you sat through, you were always guaranteed at least a few gems. Over the years these have included such titles as Oldboy, Wolf Creek, Pan’s Labyrinth, […]
By Ben Bussey Once again, our old pals Arrow Video have brought another Italian VHS era hit kicking and screaming into the digital age, and in so doing have brought to light yet more gaps in my own horror education. Time for a pretty significant confession: this is only the second Umberto Lenzi film I’ve […]