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, […]
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 […]
Interview conducted by Nia Edwards-Behi Kiss of the Damned seems to be a film that has thoroughly split opinion, with some falling for the sumptuous Euro-sleaze stylings of the vampire drama, while others have found this particular mode dull and self-indulgent. I’m very much one of the former – everything about the film endears me […]
By Comix Originally, when I heard that Brutal as Hell was celebrating its five year anniversary, I was like “alright, lets do the top selling horror comics from each of the past years and call it a day,” mostly because I’m too lazy to decide for myself what was the best horror comics from the […]
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 […]