Review by Stephanie Scaife Fresh off the back of the success of Oculus, Mike Flanagan’s Absentia is getting a Blu-ray release. This Kickstarter backed indie horror film did pretty well on the festival circuit a few years back and received very favourable reviews (from Ben and Kayley Viteo) here at Brutal as Hell, so I […]
By Keri O’Shea Editor’s note: this review contains mild spoilers (though nothing more than on the website or packaging blurb). Whilst Vincent Price is rightly revered for all of his extensive filmography, it’s often the slightly more unconventional, the more unorthodox roles in which he truly stood out. That may sound like a very silly […]
Review by Karolina Gruschka Invasion of the Scream Queens is a feature length documentary about a few actresses from the VHS generation that made a career out of performing in low budget horror films. It features short informal interviews with Michelle Bauer, Martine Beswick, Janus Blythe, Veronica Carothers, Ruth Collins, Monique Gabrielle, Marya Gant, Katina […]
Review by Quin I recently watched a Q&A with filmmaker Werner Herzog where he pretty much says that if aliens from other planets exist, we’ll never see them here on Earth. The reason being, that these planets are so far away, it would take too long to get here, and if they traveled faster they […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife Oculus is the new film from Mike Flanagan (Absentia) and despite the innocuous title and rather unspectacular marketing campaign, it’s actually a little bit more interesting than your standard horror-lite multiplex hit. It’s so unusual these days to find a horror movie that tries to do something different, and actually succeeds […]
Review by Tristan Bishop The masters of the classic Italian horror film were never confined to just one genre. Dario Argento, arguably the most dedicated of the horror directors, also made westerns early in his career. Mario Bava made westerns, sci-fi and peplums (historical muscle man films) even after astounding the world with his official […]
Review by Ben Bussey Perhaps the key problem with most modern attempts at grindhouse is that they’re just too cute. All wacky camera angles, edits and music cues, bright colours, knowingly outlandish dialogue and scenarios: the bulk of these movies, from the high profile (the Machete movies) to the instantly forgotten (Bounty Killer), are delivered […]
Review by Karolina Gruschka The Battery is an independent movie production written and directed by Jeremy Gardner, who also plays Ben, one of the protagonists. It is a story of two unlikely friends brought together by a zombie outbreak and about how they deal with each other and the situation they find themselves in. Often […]
By Svetlana Fedotov If you don’t know who Richard Corben is, you need to go back and retake Horror Comics 101. Luckily for you, I wrote the curriculum on horror comics, so I’ll fill you in. Corben is an artist who first cut his teeth on old horror rags from the sixties and seventies. With […]
By Keri O’Shea A couple of years back, Horror in Short ran a double-feature by the title of The Can-Cannibals; if you missed it and you have a soft spot for neo-grindhouse, then by all means, check it out here. The director of The Can-Cannibals, Matthew Ragsdale, has been busy since that time, and the […]
By Tristan Bishop The giallo seems to be growing in popularity year by year. The current surge of interest in the genre can perhaps be credited to (or at the least has been heavily bolstered by) the discovery and championing of the soundtracks to these very Italian murder mysteries by DJs, record collectors and vinyl […]