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 […]
By Brutal As Hell staff We continue with the next five films in our top 20 rundown of the best films from Brutal As Hell’s lifetime (which, once again, is not in order of preference). If you missed Part 1, click here… Troll Hunter (2010) Keri: Troll Hunter was a breath of fresh air on […]
By Brutal As Hell staff – intro by Ben Bussey And so it begins: our top 20 movies from the lifetime of Brutal As Hell. When we decided to mark five years online by compiling a list of our overall favourite films to come out in this time, I always knew it was going to […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Tristan Bishop The horror film positively thrives on controversy – from the illicit thrill of the X rating introduced in the 1950s, to the Video Nasties debacle, shock and outrage is part of the lingua franca of the genre, and film-makers still find ways to rattle the cage after over 100 years. Of course, […]