By Ben Bussey A movie with Danny Trejo and volcanic zombies was only ever going to go one of two ways. It might have been a cross between Dante’s Peak and the Dawn of the Dead remake, with epic lava FX and full-on zombie attack sequences – or, it could have been yet another half-arsed […]
By Svetlana Fedotov The concept of Hell has been around for as long as humans have needed a reason to punish each other. Ancient Egypt had a lake of fire, the Greek had Hades, and we, in the more modern times, have the Christian Hell of eternal suffering and even a Buddhist Hell called The […]
By Keri O’Shea Last year, I had my first experience of Lovecraftian theatre at the Abertoir film festival – and let me tell you, it was something of a revelation; not a revelation along the lines of those suffered by Lovecraft’s tortured protagonists, mind, but more of a lesson in how Lovecraft’s tales can jump […]
By Matt Harries Space; the final frontier. Or should that be inner space? Will the quest for human evolution take place beyond the confines of the earth or will we discover new limits to our potential here on the shores of our birth? This question of human kind’s evolution might just be one of the […]
By Ben Bussey We see our fair share of low-to-no budget indie movies around these parts, yet while a large percentage of them boast at least a hint of eccentric humour, comparatively few are what we’d necessarily class as outright comedies. The Fat Foot Films production How I Dumped My Ex-Boyfriend’s Body is something of […]
By Keri O’Shea The Rec franchise – for such it has become – must figure as one of the most successful Euro-horror exports of the past decade. In many ways very much of its time, what with the original film being one of the most famous/infamous [delete as applicable] ‘found footage’ style movies in the […]
Review by Quin When I was little, I remember my parents taking me to a convalescent home for the elderly, to visit a family friend who was in the final stages of Alzheimer’s Disease. I had grown up knowing this man. I remember him working in the garden and I remember that he had cats. […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi Sam Cross (Charity Wakefield) is a suspended police sergeant with issues. Twenty years ago her sister died at the hands of a serial killer. Even though he was decimated by the police who found him, a body is discovered in the present day that somehow bears his DNA. Luke (Danny Horn) ran […]
By Svetlana Fedotov I usually like to start my reviews with some vague tidbit or smart ass comment that loosely connects my review to the review subject, but screw that. Dustin Nguyen and Jeff Lemire wrote a comic! About SPACE! AND ROBOTS! That’s good enough of an introduction. Both Nguyen and Lemire are two of […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi Cor! It is nice when I see a film I’ve quite liked from a few years ago get a release over here. We screened The Ghastly Love of Johnny X at Abertoir in 2012 and now it’s getting a UK VOD release via TheHorrorShow.tv (nothing to deprave and corrupt here, I assure […]
By Keri O’Shea and Ben Bussey Oh dear, looks like we once again need to contemplate changing the name of this site from Brutal As Hell to Contrary As Fuck. Everyone and their uncle seems to be currently raving about It Follows, and not without just cause: it’s rare that we see such a well-publicised […]