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 […]
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 […]
By Keri O’Shea Happy birthday, Brutal As Hell! It’s hard to believe, but this week Brutal As Hell has just reached its fifth anniversary, and it’s a real privilege for me to say that I’m still around as we celebrate that little milestone. Whilst I haven’t been with the site since the very beginning, I’ve […]
By Keri O’Shea I’ve long been a fan of Cracked writer David Wong, and when I originally heard that his novel, John Dies At The End, was being made into a film, I was…optimistic, for sure, but cautiously optimistic. John Dies At The End was always going to be a challenge; film every element, and […]
By Quin As one of the newest contributors to Brutal As Hell (I started here in early September) I definitely don’t feel that I saw enough movies this year to come up with a list of films that deserve to be on a top 10 list. So, if you have a short attention span, have […]
By Ben Bussey So – Tristan, Nia, Keri and Steph have all given their own accounts on the highs and lows of 2013, and I’ve been intrigued and in some ways very pleased to see that we haven’t just had the same films being listed over and over. I guess that’s partly because we didn’t […]
By Keri O’Shea Well, I could go in for a big mea culpa about the sad lack of Horror in Short features here at Brutal as Hell lately, but I think it’d be best all round if I just got on with it, yes? Happily, today you can take a look at two very stylistically […]
By Stephanie Scaife Following on from Tristan, Nia and Keri, here’s Steph with her take on the highs and lows of 2013, kicking off with her personal top ten… 1. Only God Forgives Bizarre, violent, unquestionably pretentious but that combined with it’s couldn’t-give-a-fuck attitude is precisely why I loved Only God Forgives so much. Nicolas Winding […]
By Keri O’Shea It’s a funny thing: whenever people are asked, or take it upon themselves to generate a ‘Best Of’ list like this one, the default response seems to be disappointment. This year doesn’t seem as good as last year, this year’s films have been disappointing, and so on and so forth – except […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi 2013 seems, to me, to have been a bit of strange year for horror. While a lot of excellent films have been released, I’m hard pressed to think of any that got me supremely, uniquely excited. Then again – there are a great deal of films from this year, as always, that […]
By Comix KISS is one of the rare bands to have survived more or less intact for over forty years. From performing to an audience of a grand total of three people to selling out arenas around the world, they have left a legacy that has touched every facet of entertainment, including comic books. Though […]