Editor’s note: as this is a full discussion of Hostel, it does contain plot spoilers. Whilst people being tormented is of course really nothing new in the horror genre, the advent of the Noughties did seem to bring about a change in the types of brutality we were seeing on our screens. From the […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife It’s been eight years since our introduction to Mick Turner (John Jarratt) in Greg McLean’s incredibly grim outback horror Wolf Creek, and now he’s back to unleash yet more xenophobic carnage on unsuspecting tourists. Being that the original was the highest grossing R18+ (equivalent to NC-17) movie in Australian history, it’s […]
By Keri O’Shea It’s hard to think back to a time when the phenomenon of the ‘independent movie’ was all but unknown, and even harder to think back to a time when the flesh-eating zombie as we know it didn’t exist – but one man, together with his team, was responsible for the advent of […]
Review by Tristan Bishop Well, ‘Bastards’ is certainly an eye-catching English language title, isn’t it? It sounds, naturally, much more poetic in the original French (‘Les Salauds’). Director Claire Denis (probably best known to BAH readers for her 2001 film Trouble Every Day, which mixed blood and eroticism to devastating effect) is well-regarded in arthouse […]
By Keri O’Shea Earth’s oceans; vast realms, places which seem to maintain their mystique, even as outer space begins to yield its own. Beautiful, alien, incomprehensible, and brimming with mysterious life, the seas have never lost their fascination for us. They are also infested with gilled fucks, hell-bent on the destruction of Mankind come what […]
By Quin While I am certainly no expert on psychology, I have read a little about an occurrence in the human mind, where something that is traumatic and terrifying at a young age will become attractive later in life. I think this says a lot about why some of us are drawn to horror films. […]
Review by Dustin Hall Magnet Releasing has a history of finding unique films that are different than anything else you’d find in the market. Stage Fright is much the same in that regard; a blend of horror, comedy, and music that we haven’t seen since Repo: The Genetic Opera. Stage Fright, however, ditches the sci-fi […]
Review by Quin Having just watched Contracted (which I loved), I jumped at the chance to check out and review the new film Afflicted. Not because I enjoy generically titled horror movies – I mean I guess I do sometimes, we’ve seen some pretty awful titles in the last year or so, and a handful […]
By Keri O’Shea Everyone’s filming everything these days. And everyone’s footage can be used to form the bedrock of a horror film: that’s the basic take home message of The Borderlands, which features – as its main premise – the idea that even representatives of the Vatican themselves now feel the need to record ‘evidence’ […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife So, The Raid 2 is finally here and Gareth Evans, the unsuspecting Welshman has yet again delivered one of the very best hyper-violent martial arts movies that you’re ever likely to see. First things first; if you were not a fan of The Raid then there is nothing for you here… […]
By Svetlana Fedotov Over the past few years, the name Loki has stayed more times on comic geeks’ lips than the previous several decades combined. Thanks to Marvel’s huge success with the Thor and Avengers franchises, the God of Mischief has found himself basking in the spotlight (with no small contribution by the devilishly handsome […]