By Ben Bussey I rather doubt anyone needs to be reminded of this fact right now, but the anthology horror movie is well and truly back. From Amicus to Creepshow to Trick ‘R Treat, the portmanteau format has been utilised to craft some of the most enjoyable horror movies of decades gone by, and in […]
By Matt Harries I must admit it was one of those times when even the most fleeting of glimpses proved enough to whet my appetite. A while back my eyes skimmed over the description of The Samurai in these very pages, which at the time was causing a stir on the festival circuit. A horror […]
By Quin Nazi horror really isn’t my thing. I’ve seen very little of it, and what I have seen does nothing for me. But, when it comes to reviewing horror films, I’m always up for a challenge. I am now very happy to report that I enjoyed Backtrack: Nazi Regression quite a bit. It grabbed […]
By Keri O’Shea Look, I was going to try to play coy on the source of the horror in this film, but seeing as ‘Night of the Wolf’ has been added to the title (sigh), and that to avoid any residual ambiguity there’s a massive savage wolf on the cover art, there’s little point really. […]
By Tristan Bishop 31 years after the Video Recordings Act came in to being in the UK, horror fans are still hungry for the films which made up the ‘Video Nasties’ list – Let’s not forget that the vast majority of these films never had a theatrical release in the UK, and a lot of […]
By Ben Bussey The mid-60s: that curious time when change was in the air, the kids were standing up for what they believed in, and – even more uncanny – Roger Corman was making movies that were actually kind of important. Though always best known for his lengthy and prolific career as a producer of […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi Ghoul is a frustrating film. It’s a superior ‘found footage’ film, no doubt, but for all its strengths, it ultimately unravels, falling over its own generic trappings, and, sadly, its central conceit. Having said that, the film did creep me out, and I could happily sit through it again. The film opens […]
By Keri O’Shea A night out, somewhere in the US: two young women turn their noses up at male attention to head home, drink J&B and get it on. But someone, somewhere, has been watching them – and their assailant isn’t too happy with what they’re doing… That is the basic premise behind Slit, the […]
By Quin When I first saw the title You Can’t Kill Stephen King, I had to do a double take. Then after confirming it was real, I knew I would have to investigate. As a longtime fan of the work of Stephen King, I couldn’t help cringing at the sight of that title. In his […]
By Svetlana Fedotov Having just passed its 15th anniversary, Dark Horse’s The Goon has been an underground success for longer than some teenagers have been alive. A dark comedy noir book filled with undead ghoulies and ghosties, the comic was never one to take itself too seriously; “too” being the key word .The Goon: Occasion […]
By Ben Bussey There are a great deal of indie horror filmmakers out there who would do well to take a leaf out of Dustin Wayde Mills’s book. Anyone who follows our reviews here at Brutal As Hell (gawd bless you, whoever you are) will no doubt have seen us complain time and again of […]