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 […]
Review by Quin What would you do if you were ever put into a scenario where you met yourself? Yes, I know it’s a strange question, and it’s one that I’ve never really considered before. There have been tons of films over the years featuring clones and doppelgängers, but +1 does it in a pretty […]
By Svetlana Fedotov Of all the evil creatures to grace the human imagination, none is more feared than those closest to humanity’s irrationality: other people. While we safely assume that the people who pass us every day are just as sane and well-adjusted as us, we only have to turn on the TV to see […]
By Ben Bussey When the trailer for Camp Dread came online a month or so back, I thought it looked like complete and total shit, been-there done-that microbudget slasher fare offering up absolutely nothing new – but even so, showing potential to be a bit of a laugh. Guess what? I was right about the […]
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 […]