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 […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi Round these parts, we know full well that I am a bit of a fan of The Last House on the Left. It’s one of those films that I can talk about for hours and watch again and again to find new things in it. I was rather looking forward, then, to […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi Garuda Power is a modest but passionate and highly entertaining documentary, charting the quiet rise and disastrous fall of Indonesian action cinema. Having premiered late last year at South Korea’s Busan International Film Festival, the film’s been doing the rounds at East Asian film festivals, and very recently in Europe. I really […]
By Ben Bussey It’s curious how a film can be an acknowledged cult classic and a popular point of reference, and yet still surprise you 40 years after its original release. If you haven’t seen the original Rollerball before (let this be the first and last time we speak at all of that rightly maligned […]
By Matt Harries Reader advisory: Moderate spoilers ahead. For a spoiler-free appraisal of Starry Eyes, see Ben’s review from Celluloid Screams 2014. We live in an era obsessed with viral fame and hollow glory. The overwhelming desire to be seen, to be watched and admired by approving peers, is seemingly universal. Fame, or some reduction […]
By Quin Early in The Cabining, a group of people are critiquing screenplays. Writing partners and friends, Todd and Bruce, are there to get feedback on the horror movie they are writing. The consensus in the group is that it sucks. One woman chimes in with, “Just because you chose a forgiving genre, doesn’t make […]
By Keri O’Shea Feeling secure in one’s home is, for most people, absolutely essential – particularly, I’d imagine, if you have a family, and need to feel that you have a safe space for them, somewhere they can rely on as intrinsically secure, intrinsically theirs. This feeling of security is also a source of anxiety, […]