By Ben Bussey We all know very well how frustrating it is to see new movies endlessly recycling the same basic concepts with little to no variety. However, there’s a particularly potent brand of frustration that emerges when a new movie comes along with a comparatively fresh and inventive premise, but then fails to fully […]
By Tristan Bishop Aren’t we all a bit sick of new films looking like old films yet? The likes of Hobo With A Shotgun, Death Proof & Machete all tapped into a nostalgia for the gritty 70s & 80s heyday of politically-incorrect exploitation, at once a compliment and an alternative to the never-ending stream of […]
By Quin When you get to the end of The Inhabitants, you may ask yourself, how did I get here? I didn’t mean to quote the Talking Heads, but I don’t know how else to say it. The movie I started watching felt like a different movie in almost every way 90 minutes later. Apart […]
By Ben Bussey As this new release is set at Halloween, we figured it was a good fit for our seasonal thread Trick Or Treat, devoted to checking out the best and worst in horror movies set on October 31st. Read on to see which category this one falls into… It’s difficult, if not impossible, […]
By Keri O’Shea I suppose I shouldn’t be amazed that the found footage phenomenon is still rolling jerkily onwards, nor that countries not usually associated with a horror tradition are now having a go themselves; take Peru, for instance, the country which has brought us La Entidad. My knowledge of any relationship between Peru and […]
By Dustin Hall Welcome boils and ghouls! Tonight, ol’ Dustin is going to break formality to give you a first person account of horror. This tale takes place in Burbank, California, normally a place of sunny days and frolicking youth, turned instead, for one weekend, into a place of monsters and mayhem. In this place, […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi I’m almost certain anyone watching Aaaaaaaah! will struggle to recall a film with which to compare it. The best I can think of is Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment, but in all honesty, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen that film and that might just be because there’s a […]
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 […]