DVD Review: Frost (2013)

Review by Ben Bussey Another found footage movie. Will those four words alone not suffice? Do they not immediately tell you everything you need to know? Do I need to mention cameras running at all times when any reasonable person would have turned them off, the bulk of the screen time taken up by unconvincing […]

Blu-ray Review: Insidious Chapter 2 (2013)

Review by Stephanie Scaife I am not the intended audience for Insidious 2 so this makes it slightly difficult to write a fair review. I’m a film snob and I’ve seen so many horror movies that when a film such as this relies so heavily on the tried and tested conventions of the genre I’m […]

BAH at 5: The Rise and Rise of Crowdsourcing

By Keri O’Shea As threatened, here I’ll be continuing my look back on the main developments in the horror world over the past few years, and here, I come to one it has been all but impossible to ignore… I refer, of course, to the phenomenon of Kickstarter et al; I’d also suggest that crowd-sourcing […]

DVD Review: Kiss of the Damned (2013)

Review by Tristan Bishop Vampires have always been about sex and seduction – right back to Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 novella Carmilla (filmed by Hammer as The Vampire Lovers), those befanged bloodsuckers have been beguiling us into dropping our guard and baring our necks for nearly 150 years. Cinema took a little longer to catch […]

DVD Review: You’re Next (2011)

Review by Ben Bussey I daresay we’ve all been to family get-togethers at which we’ve quietly fantasised about something along these lines. Feigning joy at being reunited with blood relations with whom we share almost nothing but mutual resentment and contempt, obliged to discuss what we’re doing with our lives and (invariably) our careers, what […]