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 […]
By Keri O’Shea I’ve mentioned the minor anthology movie comeback on the site before; whether the genre has gone through something of a spike on the indie scene thanks to the notoriety of the recent V/H/S films (which I’ve still yet to see) or whether it’s just one of those things, a style that’s just […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife Stuart Gordon’s cult classic gorefest Re-Animator is being released again, this time as a 2-disc special edition Blu-ray and DVD from Second Sight Films. For those who aren’t familiar with the film, it is the brainchild of theatre maker Stuart Gordon, who made his name by setting up the avant-garde Organic […]
Review by Ben Bussey This writer is but one among many who have often wondered just how football ever came to be referred to as ‘the beautiful game.’ It’s always struck me as a profoundly ugly spectacle, with its mob mentality, aggression, and tendency to turn otherwise rational human beings into ranting, raving animals, to […]
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 […]
By Keri O’Shea Here at Brutal as Hell we have a nickname for ourselves: that nickname is ‘Contrary as Fuck’, because you can bet your bottom dollar that for every film which sparks a massive positive reaction in the horror world, at least one of us will at best shrug, and at worst actively reject […]
Review by Quin There is a famous quote from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung that has always stayed with me: “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” Personally, I’ve always tried to remember this when dealing with difficult people. It doesn’t always help in the moment, but if nothing […]
This time last year, it was “Today we are cancelling the apocalypse!” Today, it’s “Let them fight!” After making a valiant, but ultimately less than successful attempt to revive the daikaiju for the CGI blockbuster age with 2013’s Pacific Rim, Warner Bros and Legendary Entertainment have stepped right back into the ring with a movie […]
By Keri O’Shea Portraiture of tyrants from history is a curious thing indeed; so often, what we see in their paintings seems to belie what you might expect, given their recorded character traits. There are of course lots of reasons for this: painting techniques and styles, the ideals of the day, and of course issues […]
By Keri O’Shea People being put through their bloody paces in rural or sylvanian surroundings is certainly nothing new these days; rather, it’s a horror staple, and so to make good use of it now, you really need to do something a bit special. This is why a film like Tucker and Dale vs Evil, […]
By Svetlana Fedotov The Disney Company has pretty much owned the word “princess” since Snow White burped onto the movie scene in 1937. Doe-eyed girls with full bosoms and sassy attitudes have defined the world of royal ladies, inspiring millions of little girls to match their shoes to their dresses while speaking in a very […]