Review by Ben Bussey I’m sure anyone who’s ever stepped foot in a haunted house attraction, or taken a ride on a ghost train, or done one of those zombie run things I hear tell of, will have had that brief moment when a small part of them stops and asks – what if this […]
Review by Quin Exorcism ends with a confession that is both well written and well performed. I’m not offering up some great spoiler. Like most found footage films, you know ahead of time what is in store for the characters. In fact, if you’ve seen any two, you can probably pick out the similarities and […]
Review by Tristan Bishop Devotees of the stranger side of cinema may well be familiar with the work of Filipino actor Weng Weng, the 2ft 9 actor who graces the Guinness Book Of Records as the shortest lead actor ever, and who starred in a James Bond spoof entitled For Y’r Height Only, which was […]
By Keri O’Shea We look at quite a few short films during the course of an average year here at Brutal as Hell, what with the Horror in Short section we run, together with our combined attendance at horror festivals – but sometimes, a filmmaker’s work stands out, and that’s certainly the case with director […]
By Svetlana Fedotov Doing a true all-ages work is hard to pull off. Balancing the child-like wonderment of children stories while creating a tale that appeals to older readers without diving off into kiddie fart jokes takes a serious steady hand that few possess. While animated endeavors such as Adventure Time, Regular Show, and Gravity […]
Review by Ben Bussey I had a rather strange experience watching Ninjas Vs Monsters. I knew going in that it was the third film in a series, following on from 2011’s Ninjas Vs Vampires and 2008’s Ninjas Vs Zombies, but I had no recollection of ever having seen either – then a few minutes in […]
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 […]
By Tristan Bishop I admit it – I’m slightly late on my end of year list, but then I’ve never been one to keep up with the latest trends, so, like a middle-aged man desperately trying to cling onto his youth by pumping the latest deep house sounds out of his iPhone on the back […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]