Review by Ben Bussey My mama always said that life is like a microbudget indie movie from a first time writer-director: you never know what you’re gonna get. Oftentimes the results are a little messy, with inexperience and uncertainty very much in evidence. However, there’s often a spark of real excitement and a charge of […]
By Keri O’Shea Much as I love supernatural horror, it has to be said that I’m one fussy bitch when it comes to the genre. Don’t get me wrong – it doesn’t stop me watching purportedly scary films – only frequently finding faults with what I do see. I guess, deep down, I’m always holding […]
Review by Ben Bussey It all could have gone so well. A dystopian futuristic fantasy for the Occupy generation, Bounty Killer shows a devastated world in which – hooray! – the white collar criminals have actually been held accountable for their crimes, every tax-dodging corporate fat cat having been forced into hiding with a price […]
Interview conducted by Ben Bussey How not to make a first impression, lesson one: if you’re supposed to telephone a long-established and revered filmmaker responsible for one of your favourite films from the last few years, it helps if you do it at the time and date you were allotted, as opposed to two full days early. […]
Review by Tristan Bishop In our digital, cloud storage age, it’s almost impossible to imagine films becoming ‘lost’ – as soon as they’ve been converted to a software format then they can be duplicated, shared and stored many times over at negligible cost. This wasn’t always the case of course – when your movie came […]
Review by Nia Edwards-Behi A young man disappears shortly after ingesting an experimental drug as part of a research project. An old friend decides to investigate his disappearance when she digs deeper into his research into drug experiments by the US government during the 1960s. She finds herself in cahoots with a washed-up author, and […]
By Comix Pin-up art tends to have its ups and downs. First getting popular in WWII, airplane fighters found themselves painting busty ladies on the side of their ride with such timeless names as Versatile Lady and Back Seat Betty. The fifties exploded into a bonanza of painted, photographed, and penciled pin-up girls, and this […]
By Brutal As Hell staff At last we reach our final five – read parts one, two and three if you haven’t already… Tucker and Dale versus Evil (2010) Tristan: Rednecks get a bad press in horror – all too often we find ourselves back in the lair of a bearded, plaid-shirted mouth-breather who stockpiles […]
Review by Ben Bussey Remember when you’d never heard of Vin Diesel? Remember when this fairly unassuming little movie called Pitch Black showed up, and delivered a far better sci-fi/horror take on Assault on Precinct 13 than John Carpenter himself had managed with Ghosts of Mars (and I say that as someone who actually quite likes Ghost […]
By Brutal As Hell staff Here we go with the penultimate instalment of our fifth anniversary top 20 – and here’s where I think we might really surprise you. If you missed our first ten (remember, they’re not in preferential order), click here for part 1 and here for part 2. Stake Land (2010) Steph: Being […]
By Keri O’Shea When I sit down to watch modern post-apocalyptic movies, I always find it interesting to see what, from the point of view of the Zeitgeist, we’re afraid of these days. What do we think is waiting in the wings, ready to consume us? Whilst we do still get horror stories based around […]