2013 microbudget horror The Hospital somehow went totally under the radar for us at BAH, aside from the minor controversy it attracted some time after its UK DVD release when a Tesco store in Gloucester withdrew all copies of the film following a customer complaint (yes, just one) that it was too graphic. Unsurprisingly, this […]
By Tristan Bishop About fifteen minutes ago I learned of the passing of Richard Johnson at age 87. Johnson was familiar to fans of horror from his roles as Dr Menard in Lucio Fulci’s Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979) and as Dr Markway in Robert Wise’s version of The Haunting (1963), but his career was far […]
By Keri O’Shea It probably goes with out saying (but then, so do a lot of things and it doesn’t seem to stop anyone) – we watch a hell of a lot of horror here at the site. A hell of a lot. Screeners, shorts, trailers, festival releases, mainstream releases, Netflix et al…the list goes […]
Review by Ben Bussey Ugh. You hear there’s a Serbian creature feature about deadly sirens luring pretty young party people to their deaths on a sunkissed island, and the first impulse is to expect something fun. No, it doesn’t sound like an Oscar-winner, but it does sound like the makings of a good night in […]
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 […]