British contributions to the sword and sorcery genre are surprisingly few and far between. The Americans and Italians churned them out like butter, but the UK was a rather less active participant. It’s not too hard to see why; the genre came to prominence after John Milius struck gold (or perhaps ‘forged steel’ would be […]
Opening disclaimer: at the time of writing I’ve yet to get through the entire seven disc Blu-ray set that Studiocanal have lovingly put together for Series 5 of TV classic The Avengers (in the wake of series 4 enjoying similar treatment earlier this year). However, I just had to bring this review forward a little, […]
By Jamie Brownlie Writing for this site is seriously starting to make me wonder if I actually like movies or if I just like the idea of movies. This is the fourth review I’ve written for BAH and I’ve yet to see a movie that I truly love. I love movies, I think. I think […]
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 […]