Following the microbudget horror scene can be a curious game. A lot of it is instantly forgettable, but now and then along comes the odd small scale DIY movie that manages to capture the attention of the (quote-unquote) horror community. Sometimes it’s easy to see why these cheap and cheerful efforts win the hearts and […]
Review by Karolina Gruschka Writing this review could turn out to be a deadly endeavour. That said, I hast nay bad w’rd to utt’r against the great Edward Kendal Sheridan Lionheart, n’r against this delightful movie! Theatre of Blood is about an ambitious and hard working actor who has dedicated 30 years of his life […]
By Matt Harries An abstruse and oft-overlooked final statement from the auteur Donald Cammell, White Of The Eye tells the tale of Paul and Joan White, a couple who live in Globe, a wealthy desert community near Tucson, Arizona. Paul (David Keith) makes a living as an expert installer of high-end stereo equipment. Joan (Cathy […]
Review by Svetlana Fedotov After munching on the brains of horror entertainment for a solid few years, it seems that all things zombie and undead have finally burned off into the horror atmosphere. While Walking Dead may still be going strong, the hordes of movies, toys, and internet hot topics have switched their voracious appetite […]
Review by Ben Bussey This is a really rather strange film. Okay, so it’s a 1982 low budget slasher starring the same key players as Maniac; perhaps it goes without saying that it’s rather strange. But this reunion of Joe Spinnell and Caroline Munro is in a world of its own for strangeness. The Last […]
Review by Dustin Hall The Purge: Anarchy is one of those rare sequels which, at least to my mind, we can pretty much universally agree is better than the first film. Set in the open world of the new Founding Fathers’ America, it escapes the confines of the home invasion motif in which the first […]
By Keri O’Shea Planet of the Apes remains one of my favourite films, a post-apocalyptic movie which only reveals itself as such in its closing reels. It’s a cinematic moment which retains a hell of a lot of its original impact too, even though it’s now familiar enough for us to poke fun at (Family […]
By Tristan Bishop You wait for one found footage movie about a cult and then two come along together. Three, actually, if you count one of the episodes of V/H/S 2. It seems like an odd subgenre to suddenly blossom – horror films about cults have been surprisingly thin on the ground until now, with […]
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 […]