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 […]
By Jamie Brownlie The comments on a DVD cover can be very distracting. A reference to a movie we love can set our expectations high, higher than they have any right to be. They can also make us give pause as we hit play on the DVD player. For me, the cover of They Will […]
By Quin I have this natural impulse to begin this review by stating that Shadow Zombie isn’t for everybody. But isn’t that every film that gets reviewed at Brutal as Hell? Obviously the bulk of what we cover seems to be horror and the rest are still brutal in one way or another – so, […]
By Keri O’Shea I feel like I should start this review of Stu Willis’ first book, The New Flesh, by doing two things. Firstly, in case I get accused of cronyism, I’ll say this much: I know Stuart, as we both cut our teeth on the same website, Sex Gore Mutants – a site Stu […]