By Ben Bussey It’s curious how I find myself teeming with respect and admiration for Guillermo del Toro, yet seem to have very little of those sentiments for the bulk of the Hispanic horror filmmakers crossing over to English language work in his wake. Promoted heavily on its links to del Toro’s output (specifically producer Belén Atienza, […]
By Jamie Brownlie Oh, look. Ben’s sent me another movie. What am I in store for this time? It’s definitely going to be micro-budget, that’s a given. Oh, and it’s going to be a horror movie, this is Brutal As Hell after all. But what kind of micro-budget horror movie is the question? Dear Lord, […]
By Svetlana Fedotov Empty Zone is written a little like everything you ever read while reading like something you’ve never really read before. It’s a mish mash of a million subjects that have been played to death, but what they did with that pile of ideas worked out pretty decently. A sci-fi, dystopian, horror, riot-grrl-robotics-expert […]
By Tristan Bishop Quick! How many truly great second sequels can you think of? Nope? Me neither* – as film fans we can doubtless reel off a fairly lengthy list of sequels that improve on the original, but by part three of a series we are generally left disappointed. Whether this is as a result […]
Review by Quin I am no tough guy. Those around me will tell you that I can be a very anxious person. I know this is odd for a guy who reviews horror movies, but I’m actually rarely scared by what I review. When I decided to review the new Rodney Ascher documentary The Nightmare, […]
By Tristan Bishop The Human Centipede films (of which this third segment is surely the final installment) have surely had one of the strangest progressions in the history of film. From 2009’s Human Centipede: First Sequence, which, despite the buzz generated by the uniquely disgusting premise (I’m sure there isn’t a soul reading this that […]
Review by Ben Bussey I just don’t get it. Here’s a new Australian horror movie, relatively low-budget but with reasonable means at its disposal: IMDb lists its reported budget as $3 million (presumably AUS), which was enough to hire the services of three well-known, long-established Hollywood actors, and produce an end product that looks and […]
By Tristan Bishop The anthology film has had something of a revival in horror circles in recent years, with hits such as The ABCs of Death and V/H/S (both 2012) inspiring sequels and imitations. Wild Tales is a slightly different beast to these multi-authored collections of short films, however; it’s all been directed by one […]
Review by Dustin Hall Another day gone by, and once again, the God-made-mortal-flesh, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the greatest onscreen presence EVER has once again graced us with another film. The verdict: you probably won’t like it. That said, Maggie isn’t a bad film. It just really isn’t the horror film it was branded as. Instead viewers […]
By Ben Bussey The jumping-off point for the diatribe to follow is also perhaps one of the most commonly-voiced sentiments of our time: I read something yesterday on Facebook which upset me a bit. Chris Alexander of Fangoria – the publication without which I think it’s fair to say the vast majority of us in […]
Review by Dustin Hall This is a few weeks late. Sad but true, no one on the BAH staff really wanted to use their time to watch this one. Someone, though, had to take one for the team, and it was me. After being held back for nearly five years, like a school year bully, […]