Review: Beneath (2014)

Review by Quin In my review of Abandoned Mine at the end of 2013, I declared mine horror officially dead. I’ve seen two more mine related horror films since then, the first (and better of the two) being an older film finally seeing daylight after having been buried deep underground for a while. That one […]

Blu-Ray Review: The Other (1972)

Review by Ben Bussey I’m quite certain I’m not the only person in recent years to have sat down to watch The Other and within the first ten minutes found myself thinking “gee, wonder if M Night Shyamalan ever saw this one.” As groundbreaking as The Sixth Sense’s grounded, dramatic take on supernatural horror might […]

Blu-Ray Review: Deliver Us From Evil (2014)

Review by Nia Edwards-Behi Deliver Us From Evil seems like the latest installment in the mainstream, 15-cert haunting/possession trend of horror films. Director Scott Derrickson previously brought us The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Sinister, and just as Emily Rose was as much a courtroom drama as it was a horror film, here Derrickson brings […]

Blu-ray Review: Ganja & Hess (1973)

By Keri O’Shea When Blacula appeared back in 1972, it was an immediate, if a surprise, success: the way that it catered to audiences via its excellent cast without talking down to anybody (the odd comic turn notwithstanding) whilst adding something strong and new to an already tried-and-tested vampire horror genre saw certain cinemas taking […]

AS SENTIENT MEAT… a perspective on 2014

By Matt Harries I’ll begin my preamble by holding my hands up and admitting that I lag somewhat behind my cohorts on BAH when it comes to the latest horror – especially the independent variety. Perhaps because I spend so much time digging around in the musical underground, I tend to arrive upon the lesser […]

Quin's Top 10 of 2014

By Quin I realize that last year I proclaimed just how much I love lists, but I must echo something that was always said by Roger Ebert, especially in the last few years of his life. When making his end of the year favorites lists he insisted that the best are the best – ordering […]

40 Dark Years of the Night Porter – a Retrospective

  By Helen Creighton 1974’s Il Portiere di Notte, aka The Night Porter, is a film that uneasily straddles the line between art house movie and outright Nazisploitation flick. It deals with the post-war meeting and subsequent doomed relationship between a young female concentration camp survivor, Lucia (Charlotte Rampling) and the oddball, sadistic SS officer […]

Steph on the Good, Bad and Ugly in 2014 Horror

By Stephanie Scaife Overall I think that 2014 has been a strong year for film, and genre film in particular. In a time when we see endless remakes, reboots and sequels it has been refreshing to see a number of high profile original and independent films being released. As always there have been a few […]

The Black Cauldron: Disney's Forgotten Stepchild

By Svetlana Fedotov Disney has always been a solid go-to for feel-good times and sing-a-longs about ice and snow and love or some junk. Bright-eyed princesses solving all the world’s problems with equally bright-eyed forest creatures skipping around their toes like the black plague of happiness has made the animation giant its own world power, […]