By Keri O’Shea We’re an unhappy array of meat-sacks, eh? Even in these times – in the Western world at least – of relative plenty and luxury (and before you argue, consider that you could have been born in the 14th Century) we treat our bodies like battlegrounds; when material concerns become secondary, we turn […]
By Keri O’Shea There’s been a strange sort of circularity to the career of Roger Corman. Whilst as a young man he made films about anything and everything he could (as did many directors and/or producers of his generation and longevity) he definitely seems to have had a soft spot for no-budget, turn-a-buck creature features: […]
Review by Quin In the fall of my first year of high school, my best friend and I decided to turn my backyard into a haunted house for Halloween. During September and October, we spent every day after school planning and building our own haunt. We had ropes and pulleys, we hung a maze of […]
Review by Svetlana Fedotov Ah, The Goon. Everyone’s favorite tough-talking, hard-drinking, hobo-slapping, pair of thugs for hire, Goon and Frankie, have been delighting fans for ages with their hilarious hi-jinks and low-brow humor. A clever mix of noir, humor, and horror, Dark Horses premier bad-asses are once again back in the spotlight with another one […]
By Keri O’Shea “I’m Welsh, and the Celtic twilight sometimes descends at odd moments.” Vincent Price Horror draws its influences from a diverse range of sources, in particular borrowing from the legends and lore of the past to conjure its contemporary demons. One of the richest seams for such forgotten horrors, ripe to terrify new […]
Review by Ben Bussey Lisa Johnson (Abigail Breslin) is a day away from turning 16. Naturally she’s a gloomy little thing with her Smiths posters, Siouxie and the Banshees T-shirt and dark eye make-up, at odds with the perpetual chirpiness of her parents and little brother, who seem to think nothing of being housebound all […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife If you ever thought that the werewolf movie sub-genre was missing something, I’m pretty sure the first thing to come to mind wouldn’t be the addition of a “were-cicada” to the canon. However, that’s precisely what we get here in Philippe Mora’s The Beast Within. This bizarre film is scripted by […]
Review by Ben Bussey I don’t know; kids these days. Bloody hooligans, the lot of ’em. Specially them what were born within minutes of one another during a solar eclipse, who grow to be evil incarnate with a lust to kill anyone who crosses them, but the smarts to get clean away with it. There, […]
Review by Tristan Bishop Although it is actually a remake of a Thai film from 2006, 13 Sins is probably going to suffer from the effect of coming along right on the tail of Cheap Thrills. The films share a very similar conceit – men manipulated into committing increasingly outrageous/destructive acts for money. Whilst they are part […]
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 […]