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 […]
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 […]