By Tristan Bishop Quick! How many truly great second sequels can you think of? Nope? Me neither* – as film fans we can doubtless reel off a fairly lengthy list of sequels that improve on the original, but by part three of a series we are generally left disappointed. Whether this is as a result […]
Review by Quin I am no tough guy. Those around me will tell you that I can be a very anxious person. I know this is odd for a guy who reviews horror movies, but I’m actually rarely scared by what I review. When I decided to review the new Rodney Ascher documentary The Nightmare, […]
By Tristan Bishop The Human Centipede films (of which this third segment is surely the final installment) have surely had one of the strangest progressions in the history of film. From 2009’s Human Centipede: First Sequence, which, despite the buzz generated by the uniquely disgusting premise (I’m sure there isn’t a soul reading this that […]
Review by Ben Bussey I just don’t get it. Here’s a new Australian horror movie, relatively low-budget but with reasonable means at its disposal: IMDb lists its reported budget as $3 million (presumably AUS), which was enough to hire the services of three well-known, long-established Hollywood actors, and produce an end product that looks and […]
By Tristan Bishop The anthology film has had something of a revival in horror circles in recent years, with hits such as The ABCs of Death and V/H/S (both 2012) inspiring sequels and imitations. Wild Tales is a slightly different beast to these multi-authored collections of short films, however; it’s all been directed by one […]
Review by Dustin Hall Another day gone by, and once again, the God-made-mortal-flesh, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the greatest onscreen presence EVER has once again graced us with another film. The verdict: you probably won’t like it. That said, Maggie isn’t a bad film. It just really isn’t the horror film it was branded as. Instead viewers […]
By Ben Bussey The jumping-off point for the diatribe to follow is also perhaps one of the most commonly-voiced sentiments of our time: I read something yesterday on Facebook which upset me a bit. Chris Alexander of Fangoria – the publication without which I think it’s fair to say the vast majority of us in […]
Review by Dustin Hall This is a few weeks late. Sad but true, no one on the BAH staff really wanted to use their time to watch this one. Someone, though, had to take one for the team, and it was me. After being held back for nearly five years, like a school year bully, […]
By Keri O’Shea (Editor’s note: for the first part of Keri’s kvetching, please click here.) Right, where was I? I’d finished talking about the hideously wronged catwalk models who can thenceforth magically bend girders and all the Keepers of Knowledge who fall out of (or leap from) high buildings, or otherwise race to their deaths […]
Review by Quin If the 1973 film Ganja and Hess was ever going to be remade, Spike Lee was definitely the one who had to do it. In fact, he even used Kickstarter to fund the film. I know that Brutal as Hell’s Ben has reiterated time and again how the age of Kickstarter feels […]
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 […]