By Comix In Balkan folklore, a dhampir refers to a half human/half vampire creature that has all the powers of the bat undead without all that sunlight and garlic crap to ruins its fun. Traditionally believed to have unruly black hair and lack of shadow, they are most likely found creeping around human virgins looking […]
Review by Tristan Bishop House Of Good And Evil, it seems, had an interesting production history, as none other than Clint Howard (brother of A-list director Ron Howard and the star of legendary video nasty Evilspeak) was originally slated to direct. Not only that, but veteran actor Tippi Hedren was going to star, pulling out […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife The last time I can remember being properly scared by something I saw in the cinema was in 2002 when I saw Takashi Miike’s Audition, and subsequently I’ve concluded that this is a result of two things. First of all, it was right on the cusp of the internet really being […]
Review by Quin Did you know that Hollywood produces 2 billion haunted house movies each year? Okay, that’s a lie. But it seriously feels like it’s around half that sometimes. We all know that there are almost as many horror subgenres as there are species of bugs, however the haunted house subgenre is one that […]
By Keri O’Shea It is of course a huge cliché to begin this review of Big Bad Wolves by professing my ignorance of Israeli cinema – but such it is, and if it’s going to be repeated elsewhere, it’s no doubt just as true from other quarters. Israel and film just feels beyond Western reach […]
By Tristan Bishop You would have had to have been serving time in a cosmic prison not to have noticed that Marvel films have been running things in the past decade. Since the first two X-Men films at the turn of the millennium showed us how comic book adaptations should really be done, Marvel have […]
Review by Annie Riordan “A-ha! The timeless wonder of the English countryside.” ~ Rik Mayall True horror doesn’t always bloom within the darkest shadows of the night, nor does it require the ominous herald of a thunderstorm. Sometimes, the most harrowing sidesteps into horror occur beneath the bright light of midday, when there are no […]
By Tristan Bishop Films tend to say a lot about the climate in which they were made – from the nuclear paranoia of 1950s creature features to the Guantanamo/Abu Ghraib atrocities many claim had an influence on torture porn/ordeal horror. The horror film especially lends itself to reflecting the fears of its audience, whether this […]
By Keri O’Shea Ah, ‘Grindhouse Classics’ from 88 Films – how I love that you are so defiantly, so delightfully neither of those things; but truth be told, I just can’t turn down your screeners for long. Perhaps it’s the fact that I am such a sucker for punishment, or perhaps it’s the fact that […]
Review by Quin I hear that Dustin Mills has quite the following. His 2013 film The Ballad of Skinless Pete (now called Skinless) received a glowing review at Brutal As Hell. While he’s only been a director for a relatively short time, I went into his latest feature, Kill That Bitch, cold. Cold because I had […]
Review by Ben Bussey You know – it’s entirely possible that, once True Blood ends, Stephen Moyer has a bright future ahead of him as an actor. The man clearly has skill; you can’t blag playing a leading role on a hugely popular TV show for upwards of five years. Well, okay, maybe you can, […]