Review by Ben Bussey Perhaps the key problem with most modern attempts at grindhouse is that they’re just too cute. All wacky camera angles, edits and music cues, bright colours, knowingly outlandish dialogue and scenarios: the bulk of these movies, from the high profile (the Machete movies) to the instantly forgotten (Bounty Killer), are delivered […]
Review by Karolina Gruschka The Battery is an independent movie production written and directed by Jeremy Gardner, who also plays Ben, one of the protagonists. It is a story of two unlikely friends brought together by a zombie outbreak and about how they deal with each other and the situation they find themselves in. Often […]
By Svetlana Fedotov If you don’t know who Richard Corben is, you need to go back and retake Horror Comics 101. Luckily for you, I wrote the curriculum on horror comics, so I’ll fill you in. Corben is an artist who first cut his teeth on old horror rags from the sixties and seventies. With […]
By Keri O’Shea A couple of years back, Horror in Short ran a double-feature by the title of The Can-Cannibals; if you missed it and you have a soft spot for neo-grindhouse, then by all means, check it out here. The director of The Can-Cannibals, Matthew Ragsdale, has been busy since that time, and the […]
By Tristan Bishop The giallo seems to be growing in popularity year by year. The current surge of interest in the genre can perhaps be credited to (or at the least has been heavily bolstered by) the discovery and championing of the soundtracks to these very Italian murder mysteries by DJs, record collectors and vinyl […]
By Keri O’Shea I’ve mentioned the minor anthology movie comeback on the site before; whether the genre has gone through something of a spike on the indie scene thanks to the notoriety of the recent V/H/S films (which I’ve still yet to see) or whether it’s just one of those things, a style that’s just […]
Review by Stephanie Scaife Stuart Gordon’s cult classic gorefest Re-Animator is being released again, this time as a 2-disc special edition Blu-ray and DVD from Second Sight Films. For those who aren’t familiar with the film, it is the brainchild of theatre maker Stuart Gordon, who made his name by setting up the avant-garde Organic […]
Review by Ben Bussey This writer is but one among many who have often wondered just how football ever came to be referred to as ‘the beautiful game.’ It’s always struck me as a profoundly ugly spectacle, with its mob mentality, aggression, and tendency to turn otherwise rational human beings into ranting, raving animals, to […]
By Keri O’Shea “I’m Welsh, and the Celtic twilight sometimes descends at odd moments.” Vincent Price Horror draws its influences from a diverse range of sources, in particular borrowing from the legends and lore of the past to conjure its contemporary demons. One of the richest seams for such forgotten horrors, ripe to terrify new […]
By Keri O’Shea Here at Brutal as Hell we have a nickname for ourselves: that nickname is ‘Contrary as Fuck’, because you can bet your bottom dollar that for every film which sparks a massive positive reaction in the horror world, at least one of us will at best shrug, and at worst actively reject […]
Review by Quin There is a famous quote from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung that has always stayed with me: “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” Personally, I’ve always tried to remember this when dealing with difficult people. It doesn’t always help in the moment, but if nothing […]