By Svetlana Fedotov What would you do if there was rock the size of Baltimore hurtling towards Earth with the ill-intent to destroy everything in its path? Well, if you are one of the citizens of the Broken World universe, you better figure it out quick because in 48 hours, there won’t be any decisions […]
By Ben Bussey One of the ways the current wave of anthology horror stands apart from previous generations is its tendency to employ multiple directors. While there were certainly existing examples of anthology movie which saw different filmmakers helm different chapters (The Twilight Zone movie comes to mind), this was by no means the norm, […]
By Svetlana Fedotov Ever since the dawn of comics, superheroes have blazed a trail across the four square world to the delight of post-war children everywhere. With their “go get ‘em” attitudes and barely there outfits, not even gritty re-makes can damper the belief that at the end of the day, the heroes are exactly […]
By Ben Bussey And so, the digital age’s canonisation of the video era continues. Not without reason, either. Where once VHS rental stores popped up on every street corner, nowadays home viewers are more likely to be streaming their movies online, or if there’s a physical copy involved at all it’s more likely to come […]
By Keri O’Shea When I see ‘based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe’ attached to a film, I can’t be the only person who goes through a few different emotions. Ditto ‘based on a story by HP Lovecraft’, actually, as each writer has had such a mixed history in film – when they’re good, […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi The Human Centipede franchise seems to roughly split people into three camps: love it, hate it, or, oh god, get it away from me, my eyes! my eyes! For the most part I’m firmly in the first camp. I enjoyed the first film as a relatively conventional ordeal horror film with a […]
By Keri O’Shea Do you believe in ghosts? Personally, I don’t, but I don’t think it’s any less of a big deal to acknowledge the incredible interplay between human imagination and perceived phenomena which gives rise to tales of ghostly goings-on. It doesn’t strip the magic out of it, for me, to suggest that electromagnetic […]
By Keri O’Shea Dreams are curious things; they can be a distillation of the deepest anxieties and fears which leave people cold long after waking, or they can be pure wish fulfillment – but in either incarnation, the way the brain can weave elements into a narrative is clearly always going to be appealing, fertile […]
By Jamie Brownlie Dear God, Ben. What are you doing to me? My second review for the site and not only do you give me a found footage movie but found footage torture porn? As I said above, this is the second movie review I’ve written for the fine folks at Brutal as Hell and […]
By Ben Bussey British genre cinema has long had a problem with finding its own voice. Beyond the work of a few key filmmakers leading the way – say, Danny Boyle, Edgar Wright, Neil Marshall, and I suppose once upon a time Guy Ritchie – the bulk of the UK’s attempts to produce anything that […]
By Keri O’Shea Can it really be five years since Dream Home first graced our screens? Bloody hell. It seems incredible that one of the biggest hits of the festival circuit of the year of its release and a big success with many horror film fans has had to wait until now to make it […]