By Keri O’Shea Having first seem Axelle Carolyn’s short film The Last Post at the Abertoir horror film festival a few years back, I was excited to see where her career would go next; I enjoyed The Last Post, particularly for the way it joined its themes of grief and salvation to its supernatural elements […]
By Keri O’Shea Editor’s note: this editorial discusses plot elements in detail and as such contains spoilers. One of the last of the Brutal As Hell team to get to see Axelle Carolyn’s most recent film, the feature-length Soulmate (2013), it had been my intention to just write a straightforward review – side-stepping the censorship […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife Watching horror screeners can be a bit of a thankless task, especially when they are little known straight-to-DVD titles, so it was a relief to find Across the River to be actually quite good. It would be fair to say that Lorenzo Bianchini’s film won’t be for everyone, as it’s infuriatingly […]
Interview conducted by Ben Bussey As regular BAH readers may have noticed, one of my favourite films of 2014 thus far has been Daniel Armstrong’s MurderDrome. A light-hearted, low-budget comedy horror set in the world of roller derby, it aims to capture a very specific niche audience and, in my estimation, does a fine job […]
Review by Quin For a while now, I’ve had this idea that there should be an updated live-action reimagining of the classic Famous Studios cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost. Just completely forget that they already tried it in the 90s with the movie starring Christina Ricci – my version would have no cute CGI cartoony […]
By Svetlana Fedotov After a long wait through delays, notices, and wishing-upon-stars, the newest Goon mini-series has finally arrived on a pillow of stardust and dreams into the eager hands of fans across the world. Titled Occasion of Revenge, this newest addition features everyone’s favorite bad boy twosome, Goon and Frankie, as they stomp their […]
By Keri O’Shea For many horror fans who first came into contact with Edgar Allan Poe via an illustrated volume, it’s likely that, in their minds, Poe’s fiction is forever associated with one artist in particular. Other artists before and after the illustrator in question have turned their hand to Poe, not least the great […]
By Matt Harries When I consider the word ‘horror’ in cinematic terms, I think almost instantly of Marlon Brando’s Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. “The horror! The horror!”, his utterance perhaps an expression of a kind of resigned revulsion at the depths of the human condition, witnessed by and yet simultaneously perpetuated by him. Regarding […]
Interview by Keri O’Shea It’s no secret round these parts that I’m a bit of a Hellraiser fan… Regular readers might remember my love letter to the film on its twenty-fifth anniversary (or if not, by all means take a look now). You may be amazed to discover that I also have a soft spot […]
Review by Ben Bussey Ah, they would have to go and give it a title which promised sequels with the utmost self-assurance. Small wonder that, after flopping in the US, it was retitled Remo: Unarmed and Dangerous in the UK (appropriate enough, though perhaps a little too easy to mix up with the John Candy […]
Review by Ben Bussey Jakes West’s Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship and Videotape is my favourite documentary from recent years, not only because it’s entertaining and informative, but also because its subject matter is so very important. As I said in my review following the film’s premiere at FrightFest 2010, “this film isn’t just relevant […]