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 […]
By Keri O’Shea Caution – this article contains spoilers When the credits rolled on the last episode of Hannibal Season 2, I felt physically exhausted; whilst the first season was itself superb, the second series was really where things really began to drop into place for me, and the ever-complicating relationship between Will Graham (Hugh […]
By Tristan Bishop Due to Asami August here at Brutal As Hell I’ve had a good excuse to revisit some of my favourite Asami performances, as well as discover some new ones (the insane charms of Sukeban Boy are now counted amongst my favourites) and make mental notes of a few more must-sees thanks to […]
By Keri O’Shea I think I speak for all of us on that thing where you’re casually scrolling through social media, and then all of a sudden, something hits you hard. There have been many examples, but today’s is definitely finding out that one of the all-time most important horror directors has shuffled off the […]
By Ben Bussey While I don’t want to suggest that my own personal horror movie knowledge and experience is representative of everyone (perish the thought), The Town That Dreaded Sundown is one of those films I’ve long been aware of but never actually seen, and I get the impression that’s true of quite a lot […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi Where do you start on a film like Videodrome? It’s a definitive work of one of modern cinema’s most interesting auteurs, a body horror ur-text, an iconic and a quotable cult film classic; it’s one of those films that everybody’s seen. Well, I hadn’t. The images associated with Videodrome make it one […]