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 […]
Review by Ben Bussey Mild spoiler alert, on the off-chance anyone’s going to give a monkeys about this movie: that image you see above of the guy in an orange jumpsuit holding an axe as he psyches himself up to take on the onslaught of zombies about to burst through the glass doors? That’s the […]
By Quin Within Madness is not a particularly enjoyable film. For me, its flaws outweigh its strong points, but I know that some of you out there will really love this. So, stick with me for a bit and I’ll walk you through it. But first, you might want to check out the three minute […]
By Keri O’Shea Hating clowns is pretty much a religious observance in Western culture. No one really needs to explain, ‘I hate clowns’, and no one ever seems to be indifferent to them, let alone like the things, save for women of a certain age who are into naff figurines; it’s weird, though, that so […]
By Ben Bussey It is with some surprise that I sit down to write this review of The ABCs of Death 2 and realise that I am the first person at Brutal As Hell to do so. I say this because, over 2012 and 2013, its predecessor became one of the most written about movies […]